Blog

Building Breakwater with AI Jan 30, 2026
Still At It Nov 19, 2024
Data retention with the Serverless Framework, DynamoDB, and Go Apr 12, 2018
2017 in review Jan 10, 2018
Writing Again Jun 2, 2017
Solr Recovery Mar 2, 2016
Steppin' up Mar 27, 2015
Inject Your App Data Into Help Scout Apr 18, 2014
Default a Postgres column to the current date in a Rails migration Feb 28, 2014
Searchlight and CanCan Dec 3, 2013
Installing Ruby 2.0 Aug 10, 2013
Proven: Customer interviews save you time and money May 1, 2013
Rails Caching Strategies (a presentation) Dec 6, 2012
Looking for Ruby and Rails developers Oct 4, 2012
Missing attr_unsearchable in ransack? Sep 20, 2012
Easy mobile device login for Rails apps Sep 10, 2012
Print Progress Bar Background Color in Chrome Sep 8, 2012
Googlebot Gotcha Feb 28, 2012
Skipping Asset Compilation with Capistrano Dec 13, 2011
Deploying New Relic Server Monitoring with Chef Dec 8, 2011
Improvements to Bundle Watcher Sep 17, 2011
Faker 1.0 released Sep 10, 2011
CentOS 5.5 net install secret Sep 9, 2011
BundleWatcher: Watching Your Gems Jun 20, 2011
Chef Tips May 25, 2011
Jekyll: Pagination, Archives, and Excerpts May 23, 2011
Pricing Experiment Follow Up Apr 30, 2011
A Pricing Experiment Apr 28, 2011
Auto-spawning Delayed Job Workers Apr 12, 2011
Quick Tip: Sending Google Chart links via email Feb 24, 2011
Faker 0.9.0 released Dec 22, 2010
Extending a Model from an Engine in your Rails App Oct 25, 2010
Looking for help again Oct 18, 2010
Excessive Use of Redis Aug 24, 2010
Interesting breakage in Rails 3 RC Jul 29, 2010
Unwrapping UploadJuicer Jul 20, 2010
Facebook Rails Integration with OAuth2 Apr 22, 2010
Testing an OAuth Provider in your Rails App Mar 16, 2010
Why Won't FB.Connect.logoutAndRedirect work? Mar 12, 2010
Hiring! Feb 25, 2010
Interested in Building a Shopify App? Feb 11, 2010
3 years of freelancing fun Jan 31, 2010
Holiday Projects Nov 26, 2009
Quick Tip: MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound Nov 21, 2009
Want to go to RubyConf? Nov 13, 2009
An EngineYard Cloud Gotcha Oct 16, 2009
A Chef recipe for ProFTPD Oct 13, 2009
Sphinx, Chef and EY Cloud Oct 8, 2009
Paperclip and MongoMapper Aug 30, 2009
Automating ec2 deployments with Ruby Jul 24, 2009
Fun with instance_eval Jun 30, 2009
Rails plugin directory revamp May 22, 2009
Exporting from a SaaS application Apr 1, 2009
Announcing the Helpdesk Rails Kit Feb 25, 2009
Another look at integrating Scribd with your Rails application Feb 23, 2009
Web Form Suckage Jan 30, 2009
Lots of Rails Plugins Dec 31, 2008
A simple jQuery validation plugin Nov 30, 2008
Drag and Drop Sorting with JQuery and Rails Oct 31, 2008
Go to MerbCamp for free! Sep 23, 2008
Find an office close to home Sep 20, 2008
Populating more than one text box with Prototype's Autocompleter Sep 11, 2008
Easy Google Maps Mashups with Rails Sep 5, 2008
Gnomedex 2008 Aug 31, 2008
Content-based sites with paid memberships Aug 7, 2008
SaaS Rails Kit now supports Authorize.net CIM Jul 17, 2008
RESTful searching in Rails Jun 26, 2008
Gitosis for protected git repositories Jun 12, 2008
Rails 2.1 gotcha with has_one Jun 9, 2008
Rails developers needed in Seattle Jun 9, 2008
Sample OpenID application updated for latest Rails and OpenID gem May 27, 2008
Taking snapshots of web pages with Ruby May 22, 2008
1 tip to make your customers love you May 1, 2008
How to build a SaaS Rails site in one hour Apr 23, 2008
EC2 just got 10x better Mar 27, 2008
A year in the life of a Rails freelancer Mar 19, 2008
Integrating Scribd with your Rails application Mar 12, 2008
Javascript database Mar 10, 2008
Do or do not... Mar 1, 2008
Who's the number 2 most influential entrepreneur-blogger in Seattle? Feb 27, 2008
Sample Rails consulting contract Feb 20, 2008
Webstore by Amazon Jan 28, 2008
Buzz and DEMO Buzz Jan 28, 2008
Catch the Best in the Montreal Gazette Jan 24, 2008
Faker 0.3.0 released Jan 2, 2008
Painless Rails action caching with memcached Dec 14, 2007
Faker gem released Nov 23, 2007
<3 Seattle Nov 5, 2007
Spaghetti Products Oct 19, 2007
5 tips for being a successful Rails consultant or freelancer Oct 12, 2007
Another Rails Conference Oct 9, 2007
UPS Shipping with Rails Oct 3, 2007
The software silver bullet Sep 28, 2007
Keep resumes out of your inbox Sep 12, 2007
Integrating PayPal with Ruby on Rails in 20 minutes or less Aug 29, 2007
5 Tips to Speed Up Your Rails App Aug 9, 2007
OpenID Sample Application Updated Jul 27, 2007
Sourcing the best resumes Jul 21, 2007
Taking the wraps off CatchTheBest Jul 9, 2007
User roles in Rails applications Jun 27, 2007
Personal Rails Training Jun 15, 2007
Tesly Jr. Now Open Source Jun 7, 2007
Selling a web-based business May 24, 2007
The Business of Rails: Insurance May 22, 2007
Fundraiser for Ruby Central May 16, 2007
OpenID Sample Application May 11, 2007
100 Days of Rails Consulting May 9, 2007
Will RailsConf Suck? May 4, 2007
Sending Mail with Radiant Apr 27, 2007
Postfix on OS X Apr 26, 2007
Social Networking for Conferences Apr 16, 2007
Ruby on Rails Trainer/Consultant Apr 13, 2007
Rails plugin packs at the plugin directory Apr 7, 2007
Designer needed Mar 29, 2007
Rails E-commerce Book Finished Mar 11, 2007
Favorite Rails Plugins Mar 5, 2007
Rails, OpenID, and Acts as Authenticated Mar 5, 2007
Pioneers vs. Planners Feb 20, 2007
New project underway Feb 15, 2007
Scoping finds in your controllers Feb 8, 2007
RailsConf 2007 Meetup Feb 2, 2007
10,000 Rails developers Feb 2, 2007
Rails developer in Seattle available Feb 1, 2007
Meet up at RailsConf 2007 Jan 12, 2007
Finding bugs with irb Jan 2, 2007
How to email reports from Rails Dec 28, 2006
How to serve protected downloads with Rails Nov 24, 2006
Connecting at Conferences Nov 14, 2006
How to handle uploaded files Nov 10, 2006
Ruby on Rails Jobs Nov 7, 2006
Penultimate Rails E-commerce Book Update Nov 5, 2006
Easy Server Migrations Nov 3, 2006
Search Rails Plugins from Firefox Nov 2, 2006
Install Rails Plugins from TextMate Nov 2, 2006
400 Rails Plugins Nov 1, 2006
Rails Plugin Tool v0.2.1 Oct 27, 2006
Add TextMate to make great blog juice Oct 19, 2006
Test Case Results for Tesly Jr. Oct 19, 2006
Tesly Jr. Gets Email Oct 11, 2006
Tesly Jr. Launched Oct 5, 2006
I'm done... now what? Oct 5, 2006
Republish RSS Feeds with Rails Oct 2, 2006
The power of GET Sep 28, 2006
Rails Resource Feeder Fun Sep 27, 2006
Book update coming soon Sep 25, 2006
Latest Edge Rails: Saving Keystrokes Sep 18, 2006
Automated Test Case Reporting Aug 28, 2006
Rails is growing up Aug 15, 2006
Rails ecommerce book update Aug 10, 2006
Media Asset Management Aug 10, 2006
Conditional Proxying with Lighttpd Jul 28, 2006
Book Update Coming Soon Jul 17, 2006
RailsConf rocked Jun 28, 2006
Rails e-commerce e-book Jun 20, 2006
Using Gruff and RMagick Jun 16, 2006
200 Rails Plugins Jun 14, 2006
Scoping made easy Jun 10, 2006
150 Rails Plugins May 25, 2006
Rails Plugins Tagged May 17, 2006
Rails Plugin Directory XMLified May 13, 2006
Good Start for the Ruby on Rails Plugin Directory Apr 27, 2006
Mongrel rocks Apr 19, 2006
Canada on Rails Apr 15, 2006
<3 Ruby Mar 23, 2006
Tesly relaunched! Mar 21, 2006
RailsConf Mar 17, 2006
Agile web development Feb 7, 2006
Yet another project Jan 24, 2006
Fun times Dec 12, 2005
Gruff! Oct 26, 2005
The new wave of web applications Sep 3, 2005
Ruby on Rails and PHP Revisited Jul 11, 2005
Deadlines considered helpful Jun 10, 2005
Ruby on Rails and PHP Apr 15, 2005
Tools for the lone developer Mar 25, 2005
Ship those bits Mar 9, 2005
Joel on Software - Advice for Computer Science College Students Jan 3, 2005
Whoa, IPO Dec 12, 2004
Tesly Dec 4, 2004
Testing Nov 17, 2004
Google's Kirkland office Oct 30, 2004
Mockups Oct 8, 2004
I used to blog before blogging was cool :) Oct 5, 2004