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February
- February 10, 2025 » Ruby Caches - Improving Caching Via Tooling
2024
December
- December 17, 2024 » Ruby Caches - Rails Local Cache Strategy
November
- November 7, 2024 » Ruby Caches - Rails Cache Network Requests
October
- October 24, 2024 » Ruby Caches - Rails Cache Workflows
- October 22, 2024 » Creating Consistent Characters Across Images
- October 20, 2024 » Ruby Caches - Rails Cache Comparisons
- October 17, 2024 » Ruby Caches - Rails Cache Initialization
- October 11, 2024 » Gardyn 2.0 four years later
- October 1, 2024 » Rails World 2024
2023
June
- June 12, 2023 » Increasing Collaboration Confidence with bin/setup
February
- February 27, 2023 » Making Book Covers with Img2Img
2022
December
- December 28, 2022 » Github Organization Repositories by Ruby Version
- December 20, 2022 » Building Books with AI
November
- November 23, 2022 » Thoughts on Software Complexity
- November 10, 2022 » Gardyn 2.0 Review
August
- August 27, 2022 » Ownership in an age of microservices
- August 22, 2022 » Operations vs Ownership vs HR Organizational Structures
June
- June 27, 2022 » Fun with Rails Query Tracing
- June 25, 2022 » Remarkable2 Review
May
- May 19, 2022 » NFTs, Art Investing, and Collectibles
April
- April 10, 2022 » Redis & Sidekiq
- April 4, 2022 » CDNs
March
- March 26, 2022 » Ruby & Redis
January
- January 18, 2022 » Micro-Service Request Depth Availability
- January 8, 2022 » Revisiting Front-Ends
- January 4, 2022 » Principal / Staff Engineer Resources
2021
November
January
- January 8, 2021 » Learning with Game Days
2020
December
- December 2, 2020 » Performance of JSON Parsers at Scale
November
- November 15, 2020 » benchmarking JSON Parsers (OJ, SimdJson, FastJsonParser)
October
- October 22, 2020 » Ruby: Understanding create_or_find_by vs find_or_create_by
July
- July 15, 2020 » Ruby: Patching StdLib in Gems
January
- January 14, 2020 » Rails Flaky Spec Solutions
2019
November
- November 20, 2019 » What I learned about Software Development from building a Climbing Wall
October
- October 28, 2019 » Safely Removing Image Assets from Rails
September
- September 7, 2019 » Flaky Ruby Tests
April
- April 10, 2019 » Building SVG Badges in Ruby
February
- February 14, 2019 » Zola Electric Career
2018
October
- October 3, 2018 » Coverband 3
July
- July 18, 2018 » Lead Developer London
June
- June 10, 2018 » Benchmarks Bugs
May
- May 29, 2018 » Ruby Gems Benchmarks
March
- March 25, 2018 » Ruby Benchmarking
February
- February 26, 2018 » Rack Proxy Tour
- February 17, 2018 » Building Your Own Ruby
- February 3, 2018 » January Software Links
2017
December
- December 31, 2017 » December Software Links
- December 18, 2017 » On Tech Challenges
- December 2, 2017 » November Software Links
November
- November 12, 2017 » Active Record Database Documentation
- November 2, 2017 » October Software Links
October
- October 26, 2017 » Databases Across Environments
- October 25, 2017 » Planning A Remote Team Summit
September
- September 25, 2017 » September Software Links
August
- August 27, 2017 » Markdown to Confluence Wikis
- August 24, 2017 » Sharing Knowledge & Breaking Silos on Distributed Teams with Brown Bags
- August 13, 2017 » Information Architecture Changes
July
- July 20, 2017 » Most Valuable Code
June
- June 26, 2017 » Phone Number DB Types
- June 20, 2017 » Unused DB Columns, via logs
- June 15, 2017 » Paternity Leave
May
- May 22, 2017 » Unused DB Columns
- May 18, 2017 » Weekly Software Updates
April
- April 26, 2017 » Distributed Team Tips
March
- March 18, 2017 » Alexa Compliment My Wife
- March 5, 2017 » Alexa For Newborns
February
- February 8, 2017 » Cleanup your DB, find unused tables
January
- January 22, 2017 » 2016 in Review
2016
November
- November 26, 2016 » Staying Organized with Markdown
- November 21, 2016 » Managing DB Schema & Data Changes
October
- October 16, 2016 » Impacting Work
July
- July 31, 2016 » Feature Branch Staging Servers
January
- January 17, 2016 » Research, Proof of Concept, Pilot template
2015
December
- December 10, 2015 » Configuring a new OS X Yosemite development machine
August
- August 25, 2015 » Developer Team Onboarding Playbook
- August 23, 2015 » Storing and deploying graphite configs
- August 10, 2015 » Working at Off Grid Electric
June
- June 2, 2015 » pair programming readme toc
March
- March 25, 2015 » Making A Programming Presentation
February
- February 21, 2015 » Cache me if you can
- February 18, 2015 » Safer Refactoring on Legacy Systems
- February 9, 2015 » Build robots with my nephew
- February 3, 2015 » Best Tech Travel Articles
January
- January 21, 2015 » Ruby in South East Asia
2014
December
- December 18, 2014 » How to improve profit from tourists for small international businesses
November
- November 15, 2014 » Coding while traveling
July
- July 24, 2014 » C Extension Notes
- July 1, 2014 » Advice from my grandfather
March
- March 25, 2014 » Talk Proposal Help
January
- January 29, 2014 » Investigating Api Developer Tooling
- January 13, 2014 » Self learning Programming, teach yourself to code
2013
December
- December 17, 2013 » Coverband Production Code Coverage
- December 1, 2013 » Configuring a new OS X Mavericks development machine
October
- October 7, 2013 » Sinatra using respond_to with url extensions (.json)
September
- September 24, 2013 » JS bookmarklet to switch between environment and shell function to open branch in github
- September 19, 2013 » Smokescreen: Smoke tests for Ruby
- September 16, 2013 » Introducing Churn Site to measure code churn
August
- August 20, 2013 » Fast Prototyping with Sinatra
- August 4, 2013 » Thoughts on Continuous Deployment
July
- July 30, 2013 » Easily Pushing Static Sites to S3
- July 13, 2013 » Executable Ruby in embeddable widgets and other terrible ideas
June
- June 20, 2013 » introducing Blog2Ebook
- June 2, 2013 » Quick Application Diagrams with Yard
May
- May 27, 2013 » fast start rails with composer
- May 8, 2013 » Performance Issues and Bug Clusters
March
- March 3, 2013 » Repetitive Hash Syntax, My quest for a Self Referring Hash
February
- February 17, 2013 » Setting mime-type / content-type when uploading files to S3
2012
December
- December 15, 2012 » Jekyll JS code formatting and running
November
- November 18, 2012 » First Responder, helping large development teams coordinate and work together
- November 11, 2012 » ratio of bugs per line of code
October
- October 28, 2012 » Bitnami EC2 https and environment variables setup"
- October 21, 2012 » Fix to install Nokogiri on bitnami EC2 instance
January
- January 14, 2012 » Rails tests gotcha with I18n.locale
2011
December
- December 27, 2011 » Ruby processing: making it snow
- December 17, 2011 » Cleaning up files after hacking
November
- November 16, 2011 » ActiveRecord / Rails case insensitive ordering
- November 14, 2011 » Announcing NothingCalendar
- November 13, 2011 » working with Facebook Dialog Feed and urls with params
- November 12, 2011 » Grep a filtered list of files
October
- October 29, 2011 » Git clone from local filesystem to fetch local branches
- October 23, 2011 » Simplifying new gemset creation for RVM
- October 2, 2011 » ActiveRecord Association objects can act weird (bug in association#any?)
July
- July 4, 2011 » Google Closure Compiler And Ruby
June
- June 5, 2011 » Emacs swap buffer window method
2010
August
- August 7, 2010 » Force all Sinatra traffic to https
July
- July 10, 2010 » Adding Custom JavaScript Handlers for PhoneGap Android
- July 6, 2010 » Mobile Development and My Recommendation for PhoneGap
- July 3, 2010 » The Ruby Fitbit Api Has Been Updated
June
- June 28, 2010 » Classy Joe Nassy
- June 26, 2010 » Javascript document.addEventListener PhoneGap deviceready issues
- June 21, 2010 » Code Highlighting on MovableType
- June 16, 2010 » Appcelerator Titanium older SDKs
- June 12, 2010 » Ruby Dev Available for Contracting
- June 3, 2010 » New gig at LivingSocial
May
- May 26, 2010 » Ruby Fitbit API
- May 23, 2010 » Converting Movable Type to Tumblr
- May 14, 2010 » Improving my Emacs Configurations
- May 10, 2010 » Introducing Ruby Resume, a project to create and host your resume
- May 4, 2010 » This blog will be changing soon
- May 1, 2010 » A archive of my last project
2009
April
- April 18, 2009 » Dan Mayer Resume
2008
July
- July 29, 2008 » Refactoring makes me happy
May
- May 28, 2008 » Quicksort in Processing.js
February
- February 25, 2008 » iTunes Stalling on Windows XP
January
- January 20, 2008 » online resources for computer science students
2007
October
- October 16, 2007 » Ruby on Rails built in string shortcuts
September
- September 7, 2007 » Always use lenth on ruby collections
August
- August 21, 2007 » Amazing Image Resizing
- August 12, 2007 » Finished Rails Book
July
- July 31, 2007 » Using Rails link_to_if
June
- June 26, 2007 » Highly useful assert_select
- June 12, 2007 » Ruby rails testing
May
- May 20, 2007 » Ruby email to rss
- May 20, 2007 » Ruby Email Archiver
- May 18, 2007 » Rails casts
- May 17, 2007 » Really good post on regular expresions
- May 16, 2007 » I am now at Pretheory
- May 14, 2007 » Good Startup Resources
January
- January 31, 2007 » Eclipse Plugin Callisto
- January 14, 2007 » Spam bots try anything
2006
December
- December 18, 2006 » Mysql null date
November
- November 19, 2006 » Soap Sucks
- November 19, 2006 » Java String isEmpty()
October
- October 12, 2006 » Nerds are great
July
- July 10, 2006 » Ubuntu Server 6.06
- July 10, 2006 » Ruby on Rails Gem error could not find gem
- July 3, 2006 » Old Computer Science Links
May
- May 21, 2006 » Coding tan lines
- May 3, 2006 » Java skills wanted in the market
January
- January 30, 2006 » Ant options
- January 19, 2006 » Junit testing server states
- January 19, 2006 » Apache2 integrating Tomcat 5.5 on windows
2005
December
- December 20, 2005 » Broken MailEnable
November
- November 14, 2005 » No Fluff just Stuff
- November 10, 2005 » Ruby on Rails
September
- September 8, 2005 » CSS columns guides
August
- August 8, 2005 » Apache XML RPC Asych
July
- July 21, 2005 » java in cygwin
June
- June 28, 2005 » Java Source Code Examples
- June 13, 2005 » Computer Science Research Papers
- June 2, 2005 » Programming Links
May
- May 31, 2005 » Converting XML with XSLT
April
- April 6, 2005 » Java string to inputstream
- April 5, 2005 » CVS stuff
March
- March 30, 2005 » java code tar
- March 30, 2005 » Java Tar
- March 30, 2005 » Java Tar and problems
- March 10, 2005 » Java copy file code
February
- February 28, 2005 » my neglected blog
- February 8, 2005 » GNU tar errors on windows
- February 7, 2005 » Jakarta org.apache.commons.fileupload
2004
November
- November 3, 2004 » Again Sorry
October
- October 12, 2004 » sorry busy
September
- September 9, 2004 » Intelligent Agents
August
- August 8, 2004 » fighting back
July
- July 19, 2004 » cleaning and moving
- July 6, 2004 » Feature requests
June
- June 29, 2004 » News Shaker
- June 18, 2004 » New NewsShaker Feature
- June 17, 2004 » Initial Description of HAMCOD
- June 16, 2004 » Done testing and work on SVMMail
May
- May 24, 2004 » SVMMail testing update
- May 20, 2004 » SVM Mail feature vector
- May 19, 2004 » SVMMail vs Apple Mail
- May 18, 2004 » News Shaker Update
- May 11, 2004 » SVM Mail testing
- May 7, 2004 » SVMMail
April
- April 18, 2004 » SVM Spam Filtering
- April 13, 2004 » Programming progress
- April 13, 2004 » A step closer to fully automated
- April 9, 2004 » Busy
March
- March 30, 2004 » FIRST GOOD SUCCESS!!
- March 30, 2004 » Current Percent levels
- March 29, 2004 » NewsShaker: Features needed / bug report V.001
- March 9, 2004 » Text2SVM
- March 8, 2004 » Week of stuff
- March 4, 2004 » Text to vectors progress
- March 4, 2004 » Converting documents to word vectors
- March 2, 2004 » Space Altering
- March 1, 2004 » Very cool clustering
- March 1, 2004 » Setting Up
February
- February 16, 2004 » open gl progress
- February 2, 2004 » finished opengl
- February 2, 2004 » Well today was a big
January
- January 15, 2004 » Cool project
2003
November
- November 8, 2003 » OpenGL Resources
- November 4, 2003 » C++ resources
- November 2, 2003 » MySQL resources
- November 2, 2003 » Linux / Unix Resources
- November 2, 2003 » Java Resources