Why We Should (Absolutely Never) Build Software Like We Build Houses
14 Mar 2014I’m building a house and I write software for a living. So when someone showed me the article Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses I had to disagree.
Practice while you Play: Multiple conferences, one Talk
23 Dec 2013New isn’t always better, especially when it comes to conference talks. A number of conferences have a CFP that explicitly looks for “fresh” talks that have never previously been given. My take: practice makes perfect, and repeat talks produces a better experience for attendees
Ditching Tumblr
11 Dec 2013After 2 weeks of support requests with Tumblr over the inability to see basically any code on my old blog. I’m switching to self hosting!
TIL: Symbol to Proc Trick not needed in Ruby Inject/Reduce 2.0.0
13 Nov 2013If you’ve been using Ruby for some time no doubt you’ve done something like this to sum up an array of integers:
UT on Rails
11 Nov 2013Last year I held a series of non credit Rails courses for University of Texas Students, i’m happy to announce that i’ve been granted an Adjunct Professor position at the UT and I’m teaching a for credit course in Databases and Rails. Lucky for you, i’m a sucker for online learning, so i’ll be putting all my course material online, right here.
UT on Rails
11 Nov 2013Last year I held a series of non credit Rails courses for University of Texas Students, I’m happy to announce that I’ve been granted an Adjunct Professor position at the UT and I’m teaching a for credit course in Databases and Rails. Lucky for you, I’m a sucker for online learning, so I’ll be putting all my course material online, right here.
TIL how to null out or unset an ENVIRONMENT variable in bash
01 Nov 2013Heroku compiles your app without environment variables. This is all well and good, but how do you debug a problem that only shows up when an environment variable is missing? Not just set to an empty string "".
Why Do Heroku Builds Run Without Config by Default?
19 Oct 2013I got this question awhile ago and answered in Gist form. I recently stumbled on my answer and thought it was worth sharing, so here you go:
Wicked 1.0.1 Released with Critical Security Fix
08 Oct 2013If you’re using Wicked, the easy way to build step-by-step wizards in your Rails code please update to Wicked version 1.0.1 immediately a serious security bug was patched. If you do not upgrade, an attacker may be able to view arbitrary files on your server.
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