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Why was the jump in women attendance so much higher between 2013-2014 than 2014-2015?

were you running wordpress? i think the traffic that HN sends crushes wordpress specifically. who knows... maybe it's just our wordpress config. we're gonna port it over to a stati…

honestly, i think it's time for us to move over to jekyll

we have super-cache enabled and the apache KeepAliveTimeout down to 1 second (which killed us in the past). but hacker news still sends a crushing amount of traffic.

perhaps it's time to run our blog on node...

This post is getting some pretty interesting discussion on the blog. It's clearly a topic that people have strong feelings on. I'm interested in the thoughts of people here.

Pair programming is kind of team-by-team... ie: not every team is able to reap its rewards. So I understand if you've not had success with it. But I have worked on dozens of projec…

I love it! As rails matures and is used on bigger and bigger projects, it starts to look more and more like Java. It used to be all about rapid development... but now we're all tal…

This is a decent post, but why did you decide to use CoffeeScript? It seems like just another hurdle for people trying to learn Backbone.

There's a pretty long answer to that question. User stories are a critical piece of XP (eXtreme Programming), and Tracker is a project management tool targeted directly at XP teams…

I'm glad Cuke decided to dump web_steps. Features written with those steps really did look terrible. However, I think there is a fine line to be careful of. You can pretty easily w…