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Why shouldn’t I just go to StackOverflow and use the tag feature to filter for the Ruby questions?

Aaron Patterson (tenderlove)'s first Rails release.

Sure, HTTP status codes should be used. But they aren't enough to communicate application-specific messages from an app backend to an AJAX front-end. For example, AJAX on the brows…

I rebuilt a house in the SF Bay Area several years ago. In-floor radiant heating is my absolute favorite feature. Nothing like it. On-demand tankless hot water system. With two loo…

Think about the guys in any prison movie: Take time to plan your escape. 1) Instead of digging a hole with stolen spoons in the prison yard, learn to program. "Rails for Zombies" (…

In the 1980s, I ran a monthly 24 page punk rock music magazine using this technology. By 1984, after I sold the business, desktop publishing was already pushing out "cold type". "C…

The large ecosystem is one of the biggest benefits to Ruby/Rails development but, yes, it can be difficult to determine which third-party project is best supported or most popular.…

Great to see a curated collection of resources about RESTful practices. Hosted on code.google.com... now if only Google would uniformly adopt REST for their own APIs. Google is sti…

If you want to see how it's done in Ruby on Rails, here's an example app with authentication and user management and MongoDB for data. With a tutorial. https://github.com/fortuity/…

I too use Toodledo, on the iPad and web. I have even used it collaboratively to track tasks with my virtual assistant. It's got complexity (you can organize tasks by folders, goals…

Where can I learn more about pros/cons of various pricing models for software development?

Irony in action. Wonder if it's intentional.

When NoSQL isn't enough.

More Firesheep fallout. GitHub goes to all-SSL access. Now you can't generate new Rails applications from templates hosted on GitHub.