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Papelbon at the end of today’s rolling rally...
Oct 31st
U.S. Navy kills pirates near Mogadishu,...
Oct 31st
“This is the age of the bogus survey. I woke up recently to...”
— The Financial Times
Oct 30th
Watch Watch
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals on tour.
Oct 29th

Intellectual American cities

In terms of residents over 25 with a bachelor’s degree: 1) San Francisco 2) Washington,...
Oct 29th
JavaScript libraries
Oct 29th
The Future of Firefox and JavaScript
Oct 29th
Creative Commons content
Oct 28th
“You can’t eat your cake before your birthday.”
— Manny Ramirez
Oct 28th
HTML 5
Oct 27th
The history and future of JavaScript
Oct 27th
Watch Watch
Deval Patrick’s endorsement of Barack Obama for the President of the United States. Boston...
Oct 27th
Better Rails fixtures
Oct 26th
Red Sox' historic Game One of the 2007 World...
Oct 25th
iPhone developer center
Oct 25th
Stored procedures are evil
Oct 23rd
Facebook flyers
Oct 22nd
Pixels of hate
Oct 22nd
“A shortsighted and often just plain stupid federal...”
— Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street...
Oct 22nd
Papelbon celebrates the American League pennant.
Oct 22nd
“We’ve got a leader in Iran who has announced that he...”
— President George W. Bush
Oct 20th
Watch Watch
Public school systems in America perform poorly. This half-hour clip from ABC does a good job...
Oct 20th
“What are the most important habits of highly effective...”
— Commonwealth magazine
Oct 20th
Watch Watch
Chris Dodd resolves to filibuster the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This is often...
Oct 20th
Watch Watch
“I don’t get paid to make those fuckin’ decisions.” ~ Josh Beckett
Oct 20th
“0-6 Miami knows the ‘07 Pats could knock the ‘72...”
— Bill Simmons
Oct 19th
Court3nay's empty Rails app
Oct 19th
RSpec tutorial
Oct 18th
MultiAppRouting
Oct 18th
Tiger licking a liger.
Oct 18th
Ron Paul's supporters' occupations
Oct 18th
China's government redirects Google and Yahoo...
Oct 18th
Every second of the Daily Show now online
Oct 18th

Stub HTTP_USER_AGENT in RSpec for Rails

request.stub!(:user_agent).and_return('Mozilla')
Oct 17th
Amazon web services for Ruby developers
Oct 17th
Krugle
Oct 17th
Next New Networks
Oct 17th
Watch Watch
Railroad Earth video, “Elko”
Oct 17th
Web 2.0 driving demand for diesel generators
Oct 16th
“It looks like the scheme of the deliciously-named Rep....”
— Reason magazine
Oct 16th
New Amazon EC2 server instance types
Oct 16th
New Amazon EC2 server instance types
Oct 16th
Getting started with Rubinius II: Coding
Oct 16th
“Turkey has warned us that if Congress passes a resolution...”
— Kevin Drum, Political Animal
Oct 16th
Stumble Upon
Oct 15th
Is it Christmas?
Oct 15th
MySQL table indexes in Rails
Oct 14th
“I am no angel but a christain,This would be short and simple...”
— Today’s “spam of...
Oct 14th
The mass of the internet
Oct 14th
Watch Watch
Lou Holtz’ pep talk this week includes Lou’s four Rules of Life: 1) you need something...
Oct 13th
Watch Watch
Red Sox Indians preview, via historical matchups and a little help from the Major League guy.
Oct 13th
“Looking back, following the Celtics was almost like being in...”
— Bill Simmons
Oct 13th
Getting started with Rubinius
Oct 12th
Watch Watch
The world’s most important drum loop, explained.
Oct 12th
Idiomag ~ bands
Oct 12th

Ruby, SQL, and the Relational Model

The following is from WikiWikiWeb: A RelationalDatabase as implemented today (with tables, rows,...
Oct 12th
Hacker to become a hacker
Oct 11th
How to be a programmer
Oct 11th
Feed validation by input
Oct 11th
Watch Watch
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” ~ Boston sports in the 80s version.
Oct 11th
Legendary aircraft
Oct 11th
Web developer's handbook
Oct 10th
Watch Watch
Victor Wooten bass solo with Dave Matthews Band.
Oct 10th
Little Bobby Tables
Oct 10th
OpenSSH public key authorization
Oct 10th
HappyCorp
Oct 10th
“comScore’s latest report on worldwide search shows that...”
— Mashable
Oct 10th
JamNow
Oct 10th
Political Base ~ election and candidate...
Oct 10th
Railroad Earth
Oct 9th
RailsEnvy podcast including Shoulda and...
Oct 9th
Keeping Amazon S3 costs low
Oct 9th
Scaling Twitter
Oct 9th
Ruby and the hype cycle
Oct 9th
Selenium Grid
Oct 9th
Watch Watch
Oct 9th
“I don’t think there’s any limit to the number of...”
— Paul Graham
Oct 9th
“I grew up in a time where college degrees seemed really...”
— Paul Graham, The Future of Web...
Oct 9th
“The editorial Guild at Time Inc., which was a pretty damned...”
— Jeff Jarvis
Oct 9th
Mirrored
Oct 9th
Miro
Oct 9th
Remove the digital rights management from...
Oct 9th
“The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the...”
— US Supreme Court Justice...
Oct 9th
Watch Watch
Favorable Ron Paul piece on CNN.
Oct 9th
Rubicon Project
Oct 9th
Are recommendation engines a threat to the...
Oct 9th
Who's the Manny
Oct 8th

rake doc:plugins

Run it in your Rails root. So cool.
Oct 8th
Amazon's item-to-item collaborative filtering
Oct 8th
Mike Davidson's Newsvine sale announcement
Oct 7th
MSNBC buys Newsvine
Oct 7th
Watch Watch
Lou Holtz’ pep talk for Florida … with magic tricks!
Oct 6th
Watch Watch
Manny Ramirez gives his first interview of the year … and it’s a gem.
Oct 6th
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www.com
Oct 6th
“Random question on the Travis Henry thing: I thought pot...”
— Bill Simmons
Oct 6th
Ubuntu and the Boston Celtics
Oct 6th
“I haven’t been right all year. When you don’t...”
— Manny Ramirez
Oct 6th
RVideo
Oct 4th
“Many advocates of the flat tax, particularly in America,...”
— The Economist ~ “The...
Oct 2nd
Test-Driven Development with Flex and...
Oct 2nd
Radiohead to self-distribute next album
Oct 2nd
“a rate of consumption which tends to level everything out...”
— The Best American Essays 2007
Oct 2nd
“If a couple extra servers can solve a problem, then chances...”
— RightScale: Service as...
Oct 2nd
Feed Validator
Oct 1st

RubyEast ~ Mike Mangino

Mocks and Stubs with: Method call expectation Argument checking Multiple calls Raising...
Oct 1st