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I'll vouch for Tree. We've been friends since 2001 and we worked together for a couple years. Your skepticism is understandable; Tree may be a bit of a free spirit who doesn't use …

For pairing remotely, I use Screenhero. http://screenhero.com/

Winkel and Balktick are great. I'm from NYC; this past Saturday there was a secret Night Market. Not a Winkel and Balktick event per se, but with some of the same people involved. …

Of late, I've paid attention to how many letters I must type into "google" before it generates an auto-completed phrase I'm searching for. I am profoundly impressed by how little t…

There's a lot of .net within Wall Street. I hear that work pays better than the positions listed in original post.

This has already been done with photograghs: one photo per year. http://www.zonezero.com/zz/index.php?option=com_content&...

The existing codebase, and the fact that I'm charging by the hour on a project who's budget is 3x initial estimates. The site was, and still is, stuck at Rails 2.1.1. And, at the t…

I'm one of those developers. Last summer, I took over a troubled Ruby on Rails project; the code was a mess, overly complex and bug-ridden, lack of meaningful unit tests, and an un…

I've done Rails consulting, full-time, for 5 years; I haven't used use scaffolds since probably 2006. Instead, most of my productivity gains have come from learning to use third-pa…

Yes. Scares me too much to even consider the service.

The points brought up in these slides directly reflect my experiences over the past 3 years of doing my own CSS. If you're familiar with the CSS precedence rule, these slides might…