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think about a cocktail party. the host comes in, introduces everybody around. you meet new people, talk about stuff. generally a good host will tell you a little about the other pe…

no, we absolutely should not hold the developer responsible for the higher up questions -- the responsibility should fall on the shoulders of the person who made the decision. did …

when we're measuring productivity, what are we trying to measure? i mean, really? ultimately its how much value is created, in what span of time. relevant to this example, the ques…

b.vandgrift says do your own thing. since you're going to do it anyway.

ruby 1.9.1 is mainly stability fixes to ruby 1.9, which had a few .. quirks. for a less-than-complete guide to ruby 1.9 features, consider reading eigenclass's summary from way bac…

jim cramer has said before that one shouldn't have a position you can't afford to spend an hour/week investigating. however you may feel about his financial wisdom otherwise, this …

someone alert Stan Rogers!

couldn't have been more aptly named. this is pretty funny, in a sad kinda way. we've all been there, kiddo. thanks for giving us a reason not to go back.

sounds like you want a mini-dvi adapter, a big standalone screen, a usb keyboard and mouse, and a steelcase chair, not a desktop computer. if you want processing power for web serv…

nice article, though i'm not sure that's the One Thing. my one thing would be 'know your audience'. that's part message and part usability. if you're designing an app for engineers…

they're buying up hosting to compete with amazon, likely. we use slicehost and really dig it. will this adversely affect our service and pricing? time will tell.

to include in a website, jsjac is pretty nice. ( http://blog.jwchat.org/jsjac/ ) it can be used to replace nearly all of your messaging functionality -- short messages, group messa…

walk through your next week and carry a notebook, making a note of all the things you think of that you wish existed, but don't. when i do this, it's generally through little irrit…

lisp was introduced to me as follows: Lots of Irritating Superfluous Paraentheses also: most game boy games were written in lisp. true story.

this is excellent. 'curse you under my breath' will henceforth be in every contract i write. they're pretty simple to begin with, but that's choice. i'd correct the first paragraph…

seems like git isn't designed to handle long-running branches, or branches with more than one committer. i'm still pretty novice at git, and was hoping this article could clear tha…

If you're working with other people: Pair Programming. Fastest way to learn anything. On your own? I'd look for a reasonably simple project on github, or somewhere the source is av…

the win on this article is the comments: he posted the article, someone cracked the license generator, posted the source. there was a brief, friendly discussion about this. if it w…

nice, solid review. if only there were some sort of wiki where all these ad-hoc Rails security guides could be coalesced. hmm, what to do.

most textmate dev nowadays is being done in bundles. while the elastic tabs thing doesn't work quite right in textmate, textmate's tabbing (soft-tabs to convert tabs to spaces, bac…

also midwestern, and have also historically had problems finding edgish work there. they like their .NET and their java. also, work rates are terrible. i can generally expect to ta…