Am I the only one that was bothered by Craig Shoemaker’s interview with Craig Newmark (craigslist.org)? I was very put off my Mr. Newmark using almost 10 minutes of a 22 minute podcast to stump for...

Some time ago, I saw a post on err the blog that detailed how to use Capistrano to inject your site’s google analytics javascript at deploy time. The major advantage to this is that you dont run up...

ActionMailer is a very handy class for sending emails from your rails application. However, the problem that typically arises is the sending of links to your site via rails using the url_for method...

Using Firefox on my daytime PC and Safari on my evening PC (MBP), I’ve suffered a bit of schizophrenia when it comes to keyboard shortcuts. To get to the Google search box in Safari, I would hit CM...

In the latest installment of the Elegant Code Cast, David Starr talks with Darrel Carver, a local .NET developer and member of the Elegant Code group. I found the talk quite fascinating, but do wan...

Lately, I’ve found myself needing to do some parameter checking to ensure that appropriate data makes it back to my models when doing finds. Using the will_paginate plugin allows me to very easily ...

RSpactor is a command line tool for OSX Leopard that does basically the same thing as autotest, which is to re-run your specs any time one of your application files changes. The reason that it onl...

Five years ago today, I launched this blog as a way to work on my writing skills as well as give back a little to the community that I’ve learned so much from. It’s been a very fun and interesting ...

A daily scrum meeting involves asking each participant of the scrum team three questions: What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? Is there anything in your way? I’ve found that...

OSX 10.5 (Leopard) introduced one feature that has fundamentally enhanced my productivity more than any other tool or feature before. Spaces, for those unfamiliar, are virtual desktops for your com...