First Post
This is my first post using MDX in my blog.
Writing on software design, company building, and the aerospace industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
MacBook Pro Keyboard Hacks - Inspired by Keyboardio
I love making improvements to my work environment. I tweak my tools to reduce the friction between me and my code. I thought I'd share one of my favorites ad...
Does Your Team Prevent You From Refactoring?
There was a good discussion during yesterday's Legacy Code Rocks virtual meetup. It centered around coping with teams that actively prevent refactoring. The ...
Relics from Languages Past
My first “real” development gig, way back in the summer of 2000, was working on a desktop application that was written in Delphi. I’d taken Pascal in high sc...
Epifywhat?
I was banging my head against my keyboard trying to figure out at problem yesterday, right before I stopped for the day. I got up from my desk and within 15 ...
Hooked on Testing has it's own blog
I’ve started to blog much of the content that I’m writing my upcoming book, Hooked on Testing.
Hooked on Testing
I’ve been approached by developers for years that have asked me to help them become better testers. In the past, I’ve focused my efforts on the different too...
Monkey patching away default_scope
I was recently working on a Spree store that needed to remove a default scope that was created by an extension. Lots of Google searching did not yield an ans...
How to: Dvorak Japanese Keyboard Layouts on Mac OS X Mountain Lion
I just figured out how to set up the Mac OS X Japanese keyboard layouts to use Dvorak, and I don't want to forget how I did it.
Getting spooky: remote debugging with poltergeist on Mac OS X
I've been working on switching our project over to use poltergeist, a phantomjs backed capybara driver, for headless browser tests. I had a couple of specs f...
Overheard at the office: Weight loss strategy
Co-worker: I agree that denormalization is one solution
Reaction to 140stitches
I just finished reading the content at 140stitches, and I want to share my thoughts.
50 Shades of Analytics
Coworker Beta: Maybe someday you'll get us something sweet to work on.
[Updated] Fixed: Verizon router keeps changing my hostname to `new-host`
I just figured out to solve an issue I was running into and thought I would share the fix.
Hilarious downtime page from iFixit
I just tried to visit iFixit, but I was greeted with a maintenance page instead. On the page was a region of text that was being displayed as if it was typed...
rspec performance tip: only run DatabaseCleaner when needed
I have a rspec performance tip to share. Before you get all excited you should take a little test to see if it will work for you.
Fix annoying issues with editing previous commands in irb with ruby built with ruby-build or rbenv install
Note: This is as much for my benefit later as it is for anyone else.
Protect The Internet
Link to http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net
taps, the rubygem
What's taps?
Overheard at a party
Stacy: SMH
Photo
When you go in the men's room at 7-Eleven, you see, scrawled on the wall, phone numbers with invitations for illicit sexual favors. But at the VCU Brand Cent
[In progress] A Day with Data Context Interaction
I recently saw Jim Gay of SaturnFlyer speak at CVREG about Data Context Interaction or DCI[1].