Here’s why you shouldn’t be afraid to use proprietary browser features–especially with stuff that’s more experimental and explorative in nature: First of all, lots of good things come from onc...

In celebration of the release of Rails 3 stable, I’m running a sale on my upgrade handbook. Be sure to get it soon because the sale ends today. Click here to get you some sweet, sweet discounted...

As you've probably already heard, Rails 3.0 is done, no longer just a beta, it's out there and beginning to be used. Go look at all the goodies we've got lined up!

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Hey everyone, been a while since I last posted.  Here is a quick update. I am now working at a great company, Datapipe, as VP of Cloud Strategy.   Datapipe has a great team, a great story, and great...

I just released a project I’ve been working on for a while, called WordCram.  As the title says, it’s a Processing library for generating word clouds. I found wordle.net a few years ago and reall...

This is why I love git and Github:

Thanks to Prentice Hall and Addison-Weseley giving me three new books, my reading list has bulked back up.  Here's what I'm working through at the moment: The Freebies UNIX and Linux System Administ...

“ The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ” Ludwig Wittgenstein

A few of us participated in the Node Knockout this weekend. Our team built a real-time, multiplayer tower defense game named after this very site. We’re all fairly new to Node, but it was a breeze ...

I’m pleased to be able to return to Oslo for JavaZone 2010. Whether you’re checking out JRuby for the first time or a veteran JRuby user, I’ll have something for you! And if I don’t, I encoura...

iwasamonkey: ITS HIM!!!

Often we must work on various Django applications, each one dependent on different set of libraries. For examples, we are working on a Django 1.1 project and and we need to start a new one with th...

“rocking the enterprise with ruby” is the name of the talk given by Munjal Budhabhatti and Sudhindra Rao at the RubyKaigi 2010. Munjal and Sudhindra are two ThoughtWorkers and their customer is Ra...

(hreview version 0.2) (Reviewed on 29 August 2010 by Anthony Bailey) product The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson I read The Mars Trilogy since...

Recently I needed to implement an autocomplete feature into a Ruby on Rails application so I thought I'd throw up the bare-bones of what I came up with as a simple example. Note that it written unobt...

Last day of Ruby Kaigi! Sad to see it go, it's been a great conference. As per usual Tweets are in bulleted italics and the rest is after the fact commentary.First I've got to show you the commemorati...

This may be inaccurate because it trusts the gem specification, but the oldest 100 gems are: DateName 16-03-2000rquery-0.1.2 01-01-2004rubyslippers-0.93 02-01-2004rwdaddresses-0.91 06-01-2004rwddemo...

FYI, Ed Howland has launched a new Ruby IDE discussion group:I set this group up to focus discussions about a community developed IDE written in Ruby (but not necessarily limited to writing code in ju...

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