Archive

2022

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