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2010

March

• Rails 3 Generators: Scaffolding

February

• Rails 3 Generators: Say Hello!

• Rails 3 Generators: The Unusuals (part 2)

• Google Analytics API with Ruby and Garb: Making it Even Easier

• Rails 3 Generators: The Unusuals (part 1)

• Rails 3 Generators: The Old Faithful

• Only You Can Prevent git Merge Commits

• Rails 3 Generators: An Introduction

January

• Simple named_scope Searching

2009

December

• Developer Resolutions for 2010

• User Goal Tracking in Rails with Vanity and Google Analytics

• Hackday: Intro to Ruby Meta-Programming

• Gifts For Your Nerd

• Protip: Passing Parameters to Your Rake Tasks

• Benchmarking Javascript Templating Libraries

• RubyConf 2009 Recap

November

• HTML Sanitization In Rails That Actually Works

• Provisioning & Deploying a LAMP Wordpress Stack with Sprinkle and Capistrano

October

• (re)-Introducing simple_importer

• NoSQL Misconceptions

• My Tools of the Trade

• Deploying the git way

• Developer Day Boulder Wrapup

• Wrapping Rails Session Hash: Follow Up

September

• Database Taxonomy

• Using ruby-debug to Find Those Hard-To-Reach Places (bugs)

• Hackday: Effective Testing for Rails

• North Carolina jQuery Camp Recap

• Keep Your Friends Close, But Your Test Data Closer

• Getting Started with MongoDB & MongoMapper

• Wrapping Rails Session Hash

• Viget Devs Storm Chicago

• Herding Developers

• Coming Soon: The NoSQL Series

August

• Prototyping Java-Processing in Ruby-Processing

• Regarding Recent Events

• Materialize Views in the Rails Application Layer

• Supercharging Routes.rb

• Provisional: New And Improved!

July

• Continuous Deployment for Staging

• Alternatives to Sphinx: Fuzzy String Matching in PostgreSQL

• Google Maps the jQuery Plugin Way

• Single-Use jQuery Plugins

• Hackday Recap

• The Developers Are Coming!

• Simple APIs using SerializeWithOptions

• Getting Started with Webrat, Selenium, Rails and Firefox 3

• Rails, Internationalization, and Tú

June

• How (& Why) to Run Autotest on your Mac

• Unfuddle User Feedback

• Developer Day DC, Done!

May

• Reusing Contexts in Shoulda with Context Macros

• Rack Support in Rails: Why It Matters

• Provisional and Repo Man: Automated Bootstrapping

• JSConf 2009 Recap: Javascript at the Edge

• RailsConf 2009 Wrapup

• Backup your Database in Git

• SimplestAuth: Gem-ified, with DataMapper Support

• Updated Garb: Even Easier Access to the Google Analytics API

April

• Shoulda Macros with Blocks

• Introducing Garb: Access the Google Analytics Data Export API with Ruby

• Progressive Caching In-Depth

• Look Out! It’s Developer Day in DC!

• Out, Damned Tabs

• Pain-Free Pretty URLs in Rails

• Stop Pissing Off Your Designers

March

• Conditionally Customize Your URLs in Rails

• Practical Sorcery with irb

• Adding Gitjour to Your Hack Night Toolset

• Developer Day in Durham Is a Wrap

• User Intention Tracking in Google Analytics: The Javascript

• Join Us at Developer Day!

February

• Test Drive mod_rewrite Rules With Test::Unit

• Rails Named Routes: Path Vs. URL

• Rails Nested has_many :through With SQL Views

• Stop Sphinx and MySQL from Truncating Grouped Data

• Simple Rails/Ruby Application Configuration

• Sessions on PCs and Macs

• Updates to SimplestAuth

January

• I Love Me Some Skitch!

• Rails Sessions Not Working with Safari? A Solution …

• Getting (And Staying) Motivated to Code

• Simple Features that Set Emacs Apart

• IE, jQuery, Rails, and HTTP, oh my!

• Facebook Connect UX Challenges

• The Making of VigeTurf - Development

• A Gaggle Of Git Tips

• Rails Authentication Plugin: simplest_auth

• Radarb: A Ruby Gem That Makes Using the Outside.in API Simple

• Multi-line Memoization

2008

December

• Scratching An Itch: The Rails Model Generator With Factory Girl Support

November

• Simple jQuery Solution to Provide Default Values for Page Elements

• OAuth By Example

October

• Migrating From FileColumn To Paperclip

• Fast, Cheap, and Good: My Rails Rumble Experience

September

• Creating Resourceful Plugins

• Scala: The Adventure Begins!

• Protip: TimeWithZone, All The Time

• Railsconf Europe Wrapup

• Unpublished Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac OS X

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