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Fat Guy in a little coat, Ruby on Windows

There’s just too much awesome in Ruby for a clean windows install and development environment.

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Ideal Coding: Easy to Pickup Yet Abundant in Function

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An Echo through Time, the Minimalist Trend

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may

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Reduce Your (team’s) Bug Tax

What’s Bug Tax

The bug tax is a form of friction that increases with the pace of development. For each new feature added, your software gains a number of new bugs. Minimizing the time your team spends bug chasing results…

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ChromeOS more than a dumb terminal?

ShimmeringCity

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Walking down the tracks with Ruby on Rails

A Sea of Glass - The Chihuly Exhibit at the Ballagio in Vegas
this is a follow on post to Pigs may not have wings, but I can Ride the Rails with a flu

Gems Gems Gems

The first barrier to entry to ramping up on RoR (Ruby on Rails) was…

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Essential Code Creation: from desktop to web

Be Open to Unexpected Inspiration

In the gradual adaption of my perspective from pure desktop coder to a hybrid desktop/web programmer I have experienced a profound and humbling transition in design practices. From a background of nearly 14 years building…

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Satisfy the Interface, Dev/User Tip #1

A reoccuring mistake I see (and make) on a regular basis is failing to utilize existing technology the way it was designed. Of course there are creative innovations built on existing platforms by bootstrapping never before conceived applications. But for…

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