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A tour through Merb's source code
Dec 1st
“In my personal track record, 2/3 of businesses made complete...”
— William Pietri
Dec 1st
Record screencasts on Mac OS X
Dec 1st

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

Runs a Ruby ferret full text search engine on Merb, connects via Rails apps with Squirrel.
Dec 1st

Merb's required gems

Merb is hailed as small and great for fast data processing so I’m going to give it a whirl...
Dec 1st

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

Mirror Angelo, Kevin, and Jason’s cool markup and style process (things like, “first...
Dec 1st
I just saw this as the homepage for a ski cabin rentals...
Nov 30th

Downloading this in Cuba, Iran, North...

Twice today I ran across U.S. export laws for encryption software. The first was when I was looking...
Nov 30th
Webrat
Nov 29th
Squeak
Nov 28th
Dabble DB
Nov 28th

Quiet Test::Unit backtraces for Rails

At the Boston.rb hackfest tonight, we addressed the problem of “noisy” Test::Unit backtraces for...
Nov 28th
AssetPackager
Nov 27th
YSlow
Nov 27th
autumn-leaves and git
Nov 27th
Verizon opens up, will allow any device and...
Nov 27th
"Giant Global Graph" ~ Tim Berners Lee
Nov 27th
“Live Documents copies the Office 2007 interface and feature...”
— Nicholas Carr, India’s...
Nov 27th
Warch Watch
Intel is agressively competing with the One Laptop Per Child project. Higher prices, Microsoft...
Nov 26th

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

Reflects on the Rails schema and creates a full new/edit form with correct fields based on attribute...
Nov 26th
acts_as_state_machine unofficial...
Nov 23rd
SVD recommendation system in Ruby
Nov 23rd
Electronic Paper
Nov 20th
Frameworks
Nov 20th
IBM goes agile
Nov 19th
Randy Moss and Ben Watson … where’s the ground?
Nov 19th

Text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived...
Nov 19th
A Tao of Regular Expressions
Nov 15th
Using Regular Expressions
Nov 15th
Warch Watch
“During this fight… I seen a lot of changing: the way you felt about me… and the...
Nov 15th
“You can’t even imagine KG’s crazed demeanor...”
— Bill Simmons
Nov 14th

Boston sports fans

More proof why we consider ourselves to be the most knowledgeable, passionate fans in sports…...
Nov 14th
“I don’t believe that getting 100% coverage is worth it in...”
— DHH
Nov 14th
The jargon file
Nov 13th

Email validation regex for Ruby

validates_format_of :email,   :with  => /^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+.)+[a-z]{2,})$/i
Nov 13th
A history of violence
Nov 12th
“Destruction is the last thing a military wants to accomplish...”
— Bruce Schneier
Nov 12th

Signs of progress in Iraq

Iraq rocket, mortar fire at 21-month low, have seen steady descreases for the last three months, and...
Nov 12th

Sen. Obama & Rep. Paul debate

I really like what Dan Gilmour said about better presidential debates. I would like to see a...
Nov 11th
“This year’s endless [ debates ], with so many candidates...”
— Dan Gillmour
Nov 11th

"Thank you" to the veterans

I live about a mile from the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill. From those early soldiers to the...
Nov 11th
Warch Watch
Ron Paul before the May 15th debate … end interventionist foreign policy and the lessen the...
Nov 11th
Warch Watch
Milton Friedman interview … “where do you find these angels to organize society?”
Nov 11th
Portrait by Kristopher Battles.
Nov 11th
Warch Watch
Barack Obama Democratic fundraising speech. The event is called the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
Nov 11th
iPhoney ~ iPhone simulator for designers
Nov 11th

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

Condenses the stacktrace on my Test::Unit/Shoulda/autotest environment so that I only see the Rails...
Nov 9th
Ubuntu has an email client called Evolution. It has a...
Nov 9th
Warch Watch
What Fox’ hit drama, “24”, would have looked like in 1994. Thank you to the...
Nov 9th
Lightweight Neural Network Ruby extension
Nov 8th
RubyInline
Nov 8th
Warch Watch
I’m Ron Paul and I’m the only presidential candidate who’ll bring our troops home...
Nov 8th
Trent Reznor illegally shared music files
Nov 8th

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

Lets me input the location of the Rails trunk I want to work with. It then opens up iTerm with four...
Nov 8th
Thoughtbot ~ people
Nov 8th
Advertising bands on the new Facebook ad...
Nov 8th

Credit cards

I don’t like that the more you pay off your credit card, the more they raise your limit...
Nov 7th
“Convergence, viral marketing, we’re going guerrilla. We’re...”
— Ryan, a commenter on Signals...
Nov 7th
Warch Watch
Linus Torvalds on git, the version control system he helped develop to support Linux.
Nov 7th
Ruby climbs to #9 on the TIOBE Programming...
Nov 7th
Pat Maddox shows how to clearly and easily...
Nov 6th
Warch Watch
Automakers Dash Nation’s Hope For Flying Cars
Nov 6th
Gisele Bunchden demands to be paid in euros...
Nov 6th
“The modern child may be a whiz at excelling in his courses...”
— Lucy Caldwell, The Endangered...
Nov 6th
“The ability to engage with the world in a multifaceted way,...”
— Lucy Caldwell, The Endangered...
Nov 6th

ActiveMerchant to become ActiveShipping

The excellent ActiveMerchant library for payment processing in Ruby projects is becoming...
Nov 5th
Warch Watch
Halloween party of presidential candidates on Saturday Night Live.
Nov 5th
Roll your own web stats for Amazon S3
Nov 5th

"Solr" ~ Erik Hatcher

RubyConf 2007 Caching, replication. Very fast, highlighting. Active community. Built on top of...
Nov 4th

"'Sploiting with Ruby" ~ Aaron Bedra

RubyConf 2007 Aaron works at a travel industry startup. “What is secure?” There’s...
Nov 4th

"Security and Identity" ~ Justin...

RubyConf 2007 90% of all Rails apps just use acts_as_authenticated/restful_authentication and...
Nov 4th

"Adhearsion" ~ Jay Phillips

RubyConf 2007 Adhearsion is a framework for voice-over IP development. Comparing Adhearsion to...
Nov 4th

"Behavior Driven Development with RSpec"...

RubyConf 2007 TDD is incremental, drives implementation, should focus on design, documentation,...
Nov 4th

"Rubigen" ~ Dr. Nic Williams

RubyConf 2007 Generators are a cool part of Rails, so let’s export them so they can be used in...
Nov 4th

RejectConf

RubyConf 2007 http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=rubyconf&m=tags PDF::Writer now has two...
Nov 4th
“Benjamin Franklin suggested firing cannons at sunrise to...”
— Daylight Savings Time...
Nov 4th
Facebook may join OpenSocial?
Nov 4th
The corporate history of Google
Nov 4th

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

… analyzes Google Trends. Helps you identify demand for web apps that people need or want as...
Nov 4th
The Tao in Leadership
Nov 4th

Personal goal ~ write a script that ...

Automatically posts a URL to Digg and my tumblr, which I have been using as a bookmarking home as...
Nov 4th
Warch Watch
Ralph Wiggum compilation.
Nov 4th

"Tightening the Feedback Loop" ~ Phil...

RubyConf 2007 Feedback from code. A show of hands … more people use RSpec than Test::Unit....
Nov 3rd

"Essential Incompleteness in Program...

RubyConf 2007 Author of Puppet. Talk is on applying math thinking to programming. “This...
Nov 3rd

"RubyConf 2007 Keynote" ~ Matz

RubyConf 2007 Matz starts with “this is the climax of the conference for you guys and my...
Nov 3rd

"Conversations vs. Laws: What do we mean...

RubyConf 2007 There are no types so love your classes. Type is abstract, a class is concrete. The...
Nov 3rd

"Maximizing Productivity" ~ Eric Hodel

RubyConf 2007 Does something already exist? If it is too complex to patch, I’ll rewrite or...
Nov 3rd

"Rubinius 1.0" ~ Evan Phoenix

RubyConf The end game is total world domination for Ruby. Everyone in this room drives a different...
Nov 3rd

"Hurting Code for Fun and Profit" ~ Ryan...

RubyConf 2007 Legacy code is “any code you haven’t written yourself.” Developer...
Nov 3rd

Jim Weirich ~ "Advanced Ruby Class...

RubyConf 2007 Worked with the following family of languages: FORTRAN, C, Modula 2, C++, Eiffel, and...
Nov 3rd

"Ropes: An Alternative to Ruby Strings"...

RubyConf 2007 A programming contest that provided a vector-based source image and a vector-based...
Nov 3rd

Marcel Molina ~ "Beautiful Code"

RubyConf 2007 Linguistics and literary theory. Don’t make the reader’s mind accumulate...
Nov 3rd
HTTP ETag
Nov 2nd
Boston iPhone tech talk
Nov 1st
Warch Watch
Barack Obama rally on Boston Common in October, 2007 that I attended.
Nov 1st