Recent Articles
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Rails 3.1 Q&A
Rails 3.1 is right around the corner, and some of the new features raised questions for me. Here’s my ongoing set of questions and answers.
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Migrating Legacy Apps to Rails 3
I gave this tutorial at RailsConf 2011. The short version: great practices make upgrading easy.
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HTML5 Now!
I gave this talk at Refresh the Triangle in January 2010. I was just beginning to experiment with HTML5, and found preparing this talk to be a great learning experience.
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How to Make jRails work with ActiveScaffold
I’ve searched a lot for this answer, and only come up with questions. Today, I finally figured out how to make this work.
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Making A Time Budget
Like many people, I have a problem with overcommitting myself. I love getting things done, so I often jump on every opportunity I have. This weekend, I found out about an exciting opportunity for me to conduct some training in the spring. In order to see if that will be feasible, I sat down and made a time budget.
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Scala, SWT, and OS X
Mac OS X and the Eclipse SWT do not get along well together. Here’s my solution.
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Unearthed Arcana for Web People
This is one of my favorite talks I’ve given. I gave it at Refresh the Triangle in October 2008, and again at Viget Labs in November 2008. It’s a far-ranging talk about my techniques to transform myself from an ADD-plagued procrastinator to a focused person and get more enjoyment out of both work and play.
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Relentless Automation, or Useful Stuff Roundup
I recently read Neal Ford’s The Productive Programmer and it was fantastic. One of the key points in it that hit home was that you should automate anything you have to do twice, even if it takes longer to automate than it would to do it by hand, as you’ll probably have to do it many more times.