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The Nice New Italian Restaurant of Server Monitoring

An early announcement about I project I'm very excited to have worked on…

Five ActiveRecord Tips

Here's my best effort at showing some ActiveRecord voodoo…

Death and Spam

The things you can definitely count on in this life…

Design Patterns in Ruby

A review of a more modern take on the classical "Gang of Four" book, now in Ruby…

A Bug, Today Only

A small reminder that dates can be tricky…

Practical Ruby Projects

My suggestion for a another book Ruby Quiz fans will likely enjoy…

From Bash to Z Shell

While this isn't strictly Ruby, I imagine most Rubyists interact with shells on a regular basis…

Dave Thomas is Definitely the Sammy Sosa of Programming

Just a few details I wanted to share about my favorite home run hitter…

Getting Code Ready for Ruby 1.9

I want to share some tips I learned converting code to run on Ruby 1.9…

Ghost Wheel Example

Showing the Ghost Wheel approach to the recently popular Treetop example…