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December 2012

• How I Test Rails Applications (code, goos, rails, ruby, testing)
• Blocking (synchronous) calls in Goliath (code, goliath, ruby)
• Form Objects in Rails (code, forms, rails, ruby)

November 2012

• Poniard: a Dependency Injector for Rails (code, dependency injection, rails, ruby)

October 2012

• Guice in your JRuby (code, guice, jruby, ruby)
• Benchmarking RSpec double versus OpenStruct (code, rspec, ruby)
• Testing Stripe OAuth Connect with Capybara and Selenium (code, ruby, stripe)
• Dependency Injection for Rails Controllers (dependency injection, rails, ruby)

June 2012

• Upload Forerunner 410 to Strava with Garmin Communicator for Ubuntu Linux (code, garmin, linux, ubuntu)
• Automatically backup Zoho Calendar, Google Calendar (code, ruby)

May 2012

• Setting isolation level in MySQL 5.1, 5.5, Postgres (code, dbiyf, mysql, postgresql)
• Screencast: moving to Heroku (code, heroku, rails, ruby)
• Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot on Macbook Pro (code, ubuntu)
• Automatically pushing git repositories to Bitbucket (bitbucket, code, git, ruby)
• Code to test ratio per commit with git (code, git)

January 2012

• Conway's Game of Life in Haskell (code, haskell)

December 2011

• Project Euler solutions 1-25 in Literate Haskell

November 2011

• DataMapper Retrospective (code, datamapper, orm, ruby)

September 2011

• Exercises in style (code, ruby)

August 2011

• SICP Lisp interpreter in Clojure (clojure, code, sicp)
• Vim and tmux on OSX (code, tmux, vim)
• OCR with Clojure and ImageMagick (clojure, code, ocr)
• Profiling Clojure (clojure, code, profiling)
• Exploring data with Clojure, Incanter, and Leiningen (clojure, code, incanter)

July 2011

• Interface Mocking (code, rails, rspec, ruby, testing)
• Static Asset Caching on Heroku Cedar Stack (caching, code, heroku, rails, ruby)

May 2011

• Speeding up Rails startup time (code, rails, ruby)

April 2011

• Deleting duplicate data with PostgreSQL (code, dbiyf, postgresql, sql)
• New Column: Code Safari (code, ruby)

February 2011

• PostgreSQL 9 and ruby full text search tricks (datamapper, dbiyf, postgresql, rails, ruby)

January 2011

• YAML Tutorial (code, psych, ruby, yaml)
• Psych YAML in ruby 1.9.2 with RVM and Snow Leopard OSX (code, psych, ruby, yaml)

December 2010

• Ordering by a field in a join model with DataMapper (code, datamapper, ruby)

October 2010

• Dominion Strategy Guide (dominion)
• Padrino, MongoHQ and Heroku (code, heroku, mongodb, padrino, ruby)
• Rails 3, Ruby 1.9.2, Windows 2008, and SQL Server 2008 Tutorial (code, odbc, rails, ruby, sqlserver)
• Transactional before all with RSpec and DataMapper (code, datamapper, rspec, ruby)
• Nested Transactions in Postgres with DataMapper (code, datamapper, pg, ruby)

September 2010

• Why I Rewrote Chronic (code, rails, ruby)
• Build time graph with buildhawk (buildhawk, code, rails, ruby)
• Six best talks from LSRC 2010 (code, lsrc, rails, ruby)
• Speeding Up Rails Rake (code, rails, rake, ruby)
• Storing build time in git notes with zsh (code, git, zsh)

August 2010

• Duplicate Data (code, dbiyf, rails, ruby)
• STI is the global variable of data modelling (code, dbiyf, rails, ruby, sti)
• Updating Class Table Inheritance Tables (activerecord, code, cti, dbiyf, rails, ruby)
• Class Table Inheritance and Eager Loading (activerecord, code, cti, dbiyf, rails, ruby)
• Last minute training in Seattle (code, dbiyf, rails, ruby)
• Constraints assist understanding (code, dbiyf, rails, ruby)

July 2010

• Concurrency with AASM, Isolation Levels (aasm, activerecord, code, dbiyf, rails, ruby)
• Relational Or NoSQL With Rails? (code, dbiyf, mongodb, nosql, rails, ruby)
• Five Tips For Adding Foreign Keys To Existing Apps (activerecord, code, dbiyf, rails, ruby)
• acts_as_state_machine is not concurrent (aasm, activerecord, acts_as_state_machine, code, dbiyf, rails, ruby)
• Ultimate NYTimes jQuery Slidebox (code, css, javascript, jquery)
• Three Reasons Why You Shouldn't Use Single Table Inheritance (activerecord, code, dbiyf, rails, sti)
• Debugging Deadlocks In Rails (code, dbiyf, deadlock, mysql, rails, ruby)

June 2010

• acts_as_list will break in production (activerecord, acts_as_list, code, dbiyf, rails, ruby)
• Rails DB Training - US/UK Tour (code, database, dbiyf, rails, training)

May 2010

• New blog - TwoShay (life)
• Nanoc3 with Rack::StaticCache (code, nanoc3, ruby)

April 2010

• Nanoc3 and CoffeeScript (code, nanoc3, ruby)

December 2009

• Ruby debugging with puts, tap and Hirb (code, hirb, rails, ruby, testing)
• Insect Marketing (ethics, insects, vegan)

November 2009

• The CPRS will not save us (cprs, environment, ethics)
• Full stack testing rack applications (cloudkit, code, oauth, rack, ruby)
• Pain free cows are not awesome (ethics, food)
• Participation in the open source gift economy (ethics, open source)

September 2009

• BacktraceCleaner and gems in rails (code, patch, rails, ruby)

August 2009

• Gnocchi with pumpkin (food, gnocchi, pasta, pumpkin, recipe, vegan)
• Benchmarks for creating a new array (array, benchmark, code, ruby)
• Acts_as_state_machine locking (activerecord, acts_as_state_machine, code, locking, rails, ruby)
• Range#include? in ruby 1.9 (code, range, ruby)

May 2009

• Selenium, webrat and the firefox beta (code, rails, selenium, webrat)

March 2009

• Faster rails testing with ruby_fork (code, rails, ruby, ruby_fork, testing)
• Testing Glue Code (code, db2s3, ruby, testing)
• Backup MySQL to S3 with Rails (backup, code, database, mysql, rails, ruby, s3)

January 2009

• Singleton resource, pluralized controller fix for rails (code, rails, resource, rest, routing, ruby, singleton)

December 2008

• Evolution of a graph (code, data, life, tufte)
• inject and collect with jQuery (code, inject, javascript, jquery, ruby)
• Code for Christmas (code, code4xmas, life, ruby)

November 2008

• Unique data in dm-sweatshop (code, datamapper, dm-more, dm-sweatshop, fixtures, ruby, testing)
• Introducing SocialBeat (screencast) (code, opengl, ruby, socialbeat)
• Comparing lambdas in ruby (benchmark, code, lambda, parsetree, proc, ruby, ruby2ruby)

October 2008

• Integration testing with Cucumber, RSpec and Thinking Sphinx (code, cucumber, integration, rails, rr, rspec, ruby, sphinx, testing)

September 2008

• Capturing output from rake (code, rake, ruby)

August 2008

• You don't need view logic in models (code, data structures, ruby, semantics)
• Speeding up Rails Initialization (activescaffold, code, rails, ruby)

June 2008

• Rake tab completion with caching and namespace support (code, rake, ruby, tab completion)

May 2008

• Finding related content with Sphinx (classifier, code, ruby, sphinx)
• New Blender (banana, blender, food, recipe, smoothie, spinach, vegan)
• Hash trumps case (case, code, data structures, hash, ruby, semantics)
• Contextual Composition With Delegation (code, composition, delegation, extend, ruby)
• What's new in Enki - Admin Interface (code, enki)

April 2008

• Testing flash.now with RSpec (code, controllers, flash, rails, rspec, ruby)
• Classifier gem rubbish for recommending posts (classifier, code, gsl, lsi, ruby)
• Nginx, OpenID delegation and YADIS (code, nginx, openid, yadis)
• Powered by Enki (code, enki)

March 2008

• I'm number 8! (life, ruby)
• Paypal IPN fails date standards (code, ipn, paypal, ruby, time)

February 2008

• Mary Iron Chef - Chocolate Jaffa Boxes (chocolate, dessert, food, life, recipe)
• Coconut Oats (coconut, dessert, food, life, oats, recipe, vegan)
• Seagate 500Gb FreeAgent Pro external drive - first impressions (backup, life, review)

January 2008

• Absence, with suitable recompense (code, enki, life)
• Unobtrusive live comment preview with jQuery (code, javascript, jquery, rails)
• AtomFeedHelper produces invalid feeds (atom, code, rails, ruby)
• I don't want preferences (code, enki, ideology)

December 2007

• Bad UI ruins Christmas (ideology, life, ui)
• Don't use pagination on your blog (code, ideology)
• Youth receives cookbook for Christmas, makes dessert (dessert, food)
• Exercises in holiday recreation (life, rube goldberg)
• Lesstile - A yuletide present (code, lesstile, ruby)
• Tail call optimization in erlang (code, erlang, optimization, recursion)
• Test setup broken in Rails 2.0.2 (activemessaging, code, rails, ruby, testing)
• Understanding the Y Combinator (code, recursion, ruby)
• Rails devs, reclaim your harddrive (code, rails)
• Making cerberus more fun (cerberus, code, ruby)
• Formatting ruby hashes in VIM (code, ruby, vim)
• Logging SQL statistics in rails (activerecord, code, plugin, rails, ruby, sql, statistics)
• Tiny doc patch wins hearts (code, ruby)
• exception_notifiable and ruby 1.8.6 p110 (code, exception_notifiable, ruby)

November 2007

• Things that aren't subversion (bazaar, code, ruby, vcs)
• Hash#translate_keys_and_values (code, core extensions, hash, ruby)
• Array#collapse (array, code, core extensions, ruby)
• Maintaining a stable branch (code, ruby, subversion, vcs)
• Facets patch (code, core extensions, facets, hash, ruby)
• Introducing Clerk Simon (clerk simon, code, email, ldap, ruby)
• LDAP Address Book with FreeBSD and SSL (code, freebsd, ldap, ssl)
• Gutsy upgrade (code, linux, ubuntu)
• Shocking News From The Late News (ethics, life)

October 2007

• Get with the times: IMAP (code, email)
• Sinatra deserves an encore (code, ruby, sinatra)
• Making an impact (life, ui)
• Enumerable#inject is my favourite method (array, code, core extensions, hash, ruby)
• Extending Rails (code, rails, ruby)
• How we use the Presenter pattern (code, ideology, presenter, rails, ruby)
• Object#send_with_default (code, core extensions, object, rails, ruby)
• I'm a rails contributor (code, life, rails)

September 2007

• Counting ActiveRecord associations: count, size or length? (activerecord, code, rails, ruby)
• The Road Home (life, railsconfeurope, railsconfeurope07)
• Conference Cuisine (food, life, railsconfeurope, railsconfeurope07)
• The Road To Berlin (life, railsconfeurope, railsconfeurope07)
• RailsConf Europe (life, railsconfeurope, railsconfeurope07, ruby)

August 2007

• Practical Hpricot: CruiseControl.rb results (code, cruisecontrol.rb, hpricot, ruby)
• Data is fun (code, dancing, data, life, processing, tufte)
• New Site

July 2007

• This is stupid: Hash#select vs reject (code, hash, ruby)
• Convert M4A to WAV in Ubuntu (code, m4a, mplayer, ubuntu, wav)
• Go (board games, go, life)
• The Switch to VIM (code, colemak, vim)
• Practical Hpricot: SVG (code, hpricot, ruby, svg)

June 2007

• SwinBrain Article Suggestion (byteclub)
• Byteclub reader (byteclub)
• Practical Hpricot: XML to INI (code, hpricot, ruby)

May 2007

• Let's go bowling with OO (bowling, code, ruby)
• Let's go bowling (bowling, code, functional, ruby)
• Eating with functions (code, functional, ruby)

April 2007

• Scrabble isn't geeky enough (life, scrabble)
• New Job at RedBubble (career, life, redbubble)
• Dulce de leche (beverage, dessert, food, milk, recipe)

March 2007

• Google Update (career, life, redbubble)
• Joining the fold (life)
• New job (career, life, redbubble)
• It doesn't matter (ideology, life)
• Eggplant Stacks (eggplant, entree, food, recipe, vegetarian)

February 2007

• Buffalo+ (language, life)
• Snippets in SVN (code)
• Pizza (dinner, food, pizza, recipe, vegetarian)
• Ethics of Zelda (ethics, zelda)
• Global Warming (ethics, global warming)

January 2007

• Peanut Butter Solutions (food, peanut butter, recipe, snack)
• Food Choices (ethics, ideology, life, vegetarian)
• Pantry Raiders #1 (dinner, food, recipe, vegetarian)
• No Audio in Ubuntu (code, linux, ubuntu)

December 2006

• Advice for shared living (life)
• Summertime Tagliarini (dinner, food, pasta, vegetarian)
• Mode Errors in Mobile Phones (code, ideology, ui)
• Peanut Butter Balls (chocolate, dessert, food, peanut butter, recipe, snack)
• Debating (ethics)

October 2006

• Rant 0.5.7 Released (csharp, rant)
• Gmail and PGP (code, email, gmail, mousehole, pgp, ruby)
• Passwordless Login (code, ssh, ubuntu)

September 2006

• Hack the Planet (code, csharp, ethics, life, rant)
• The Colemak Diaries (colemak, life)
• HAML Tutorial (code, haml, ruby)
• Day of days (life)

July 2006

• DOM Quirks (code, javascript)
• Building Firefox Extensions (code, firefox extensions, rant, ruby)

June 2006

• YAML in Ruby Tutorial (code, core extensions, ruby, yaml)
• Straight Sailing with Magellan (code, plugin, rails, ruby)
• Rails XHTML Validation with LibXML/HTML Tidy (code, rails, ruby, validation)
• Testing rails (code, rails, ruby, testing, time, validation)
• Make your resume interesting (ideology, life)

May 2006

• Packaging with Rake (rake, ruby, rubyscript2exe, zip)
• SVN, Trac and NFS (gentoo, ldap, linux, nfs, subversion, sysadmin, trac)
• RAMDISK: Ran out of compressed data (kernel, linux, ubuntu)
• Down Casting (java, syntax)
• Ruby-FTGL on Windows (ftgl, ruby)
• Do stupid things... (life, linux, nvidia, ubuntu)
• YAML persistence (code, persistence, ruby, yaml)
• XML Serialization and Persistence (code, persistence, ruby, serialization, xml)

April 2006

• Formatting numbers in ruby (code, formatting, numbers, ruby)
• Video games are the new evil (life)
• Lecture Etiquette (lectures, life, rant)
• OpenGL Text with Imlib2 (code, imlib2, opengl, ruby, text)
• LDAP Authentication (authentication, code, ldap, linux, pam_ldap, ubuntu)

July 2005

• Laggy Donuts - Client Side Prediction (code, lag, ui)

May 2005

• Learning Chess (board games, chess, life)

March 2005

• A Banana a Day (code, optimization, perl, sql)
• Point in triangle (algorithm, code)

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