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Spoonflower Prints Fabric for Everyone
October 31, 2008 - Spoonflower, a NC-based start-up that prints custom designs on fabric, announced this week that it was leaving private beta and introducing itself to the world. And because we -- under Clinton's lead -- helped to bring their idea to life online, we couldn't be prouder. We built…
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Radarb: A Ruby Gem That Makes Using the Outside.in API Simple
January 8, 2009 - What is outside.in? Outside.in is a hyperlocal news and information service: Hyperlocal means news and information on a level beyond what traditional media provides. Until now, most "local" sites didn’t actually get more, well, local than cities or towns. They assumed that…
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Sessions on PCs and Macs
February 9, 2009 - When switching from Windows to a Mac, one thing that takes some getting used to is the difference between closing and quitting a program. On the Mac, as one Mac-Forums poster puts it, “To put it simply…you close windows. You quit applications.” Windows draws…
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Stop Sphinx and MySQL from Truncating Grouped Data
February 13, 2009 - Sphinx is an open-source full-text search engine that I like to use with my Rails projects. It's very fast, easy to understand, and has a great plugin, Thinking Sphinx that provides a Ruby API for search. I found a very annoying issue with Thinking Sphinx the other day, though.…
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Questioning the Status Quo
February 18, 2009 - Project Managers at Viget are constantly seeking improvements in our methodology, processes, solution components, communication tools, and documentation standards. Steph touched on this a bit in her post about Exploring Project Management Tasking Tools. As a culture, we…
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Ben to Speak in Buenos Aires
March 5, 2009 - Ben will be carrying around a Spanish translation book on April 3-4, when he travels to sunny Buenos Aires to present at Locos por Rails. He'll be giving a talk entitled, "Page Caching Resurrected." From the abstract:. . . It is now feasible to build a complex Rails…
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Developers Speaking EVERYWHERE!
April 6, 2009 - Just as Ben was packing his bags for his Ruby talk this weekend in Buenos Aires and polishing his slides before presenting "Rails Page Caching" at the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts' Group on April 14, he learned that another of his proposals, "'Comics' is Hard: Domain…
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JSConf 2009 Recap: Javascript at the Edge
May 12, 2009 - Two weeks ago, I spent an amazingly full two days at JSConf 2009 getting my mind blown by some JavaScript developers who are pushing the boundaries of the language. Thanks to having so many great people there, we all had a great time discussing ideas and learning from each…
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Rack Support in Rails: Why It Matters
May 19, 2009 - As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, my RailsConf session on Rack support in Rails went very well. I’m not planning on giving this talk again, however, so I thought I’d write a quick summary of it for people who are interested in a little more detail than the slides…
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How (& Why) to Run Autotest on your Mac
June 19, 2009 - If you aren’t using Autotest to develop your Ruby application, you’re missing out on effortless continuous testing. If you’d like to be using Autotest, but can’t get it running properly, I’ll show you how to set it up. Autotest is a fantastic way to…