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2012

January

• Tips for Writing Better Bug Reports

2011

November

• Preventing Broken Windows

October

• The Balanced Developer

September

• Using Object-Oriented Programming to Manage Control Flow in Rails Controllers

• Regular Expressions in MySQL

August

• Testing Your Code’s Text

• Stubbing Method Chains with Mocha

July

• PUMA on Redis

• Authentication in RailsAdmin with SimplestAuth

• Using Javascript postMessage to Talk to iFrames

June

• On Confidence and Real-Time Strategy Games

May

• Rails Admin Interface Generators

April

• Convert a Ruby Method to a Lambda

• Simple Command Line Deploy Scripts for Non-Rails Projects

March

• Static Asset Packaging for Rails 3 on Heroku

• MobileCampRDU Event Recap

February

• Bundler Best Practices

• Quickly Converting to HTML5 Video

January

• Emacs 24 Rails Development Environment - From *scratch* to Productive in 5 Minutes

• Paperclip Custom Interpolations

2010

December

• Getting into Open Source

November

• jMapping 2 - Google Maps v3 API support

October

• Some of My Favorite Books about Programming

• Practical Uses of Ruby Blocks

• Lafayette on WordPress

• Anatomy of a Rails Rumble Project

September

• Social Media API Gotchas

• Getting to Grips with Git

August

• Highlights from Emerging Languages Camp

• Secure Ajax from Non-Secure Pages

• CoffeeScript for Ruby Bros

July

• DevNation Coming to San Francisco

June

• Around “Hello World” in 30 Days

March

• Rails 3 Generators: Hooks

• 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

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