Archive: Ideas

July 2010

RubyRags, a Littlelines project

March 2010

Ryan Norbauer's commonplace book

December 2009

The Psychology of OmniFocus: How to Wrap your Head Around the Finest (and Most Perplexing) GTD App on the Market

June 2008

Dining on Charles St last night, overheard at the neighboring table

May 2008

Design worth caring about.

The Final Frontier

Interview on The Official Ruby on Rails podcast

March 2008

Dueling

Interview @ Slash7

February 2008

Mention in Wired piece on 37signals

December 2007

Death and Underachievement: A Guide to Happiness in Work

November 2007

The (more or less) paperless life

October 2007

new 43folders post

Finally, someone understands me. (Just like your mom.)

Part 2 of my 43folders article: the practice of outsourcing

September 2007

my 43folders article: Enlightened outsourcing

The word "rants" should be forever banned from all blog mastheads.

Social networks aren't products

August 2007

No but seriously...

July 2007

Edward Hopper, Time and the Art of Living

The Special Relationship (In honor of Independence Day.)

June 2007

Hacking Safari on Windows

It's easier to call my researcher in India than to browse for the info on my Treo.

RubyJudo.com and NotRocketSurgery

Why Threading Matters

April 2007

Speak in your own voice.

"On MyOpenID," or "How I Plan on Never Filling Out a Signup Form Again"

The Mile High Club: 37signals, fuck yeahs, and productivity stock-art

March 2007

Syntactical Sugar: conditionals

February 2007

A Shower for Your Thoughts

The scientific method: learning BDD, RSpec, Ruby, and Rails with language experiments

"It’s not pulling the trigger that makes me happy, it’s hitting the target."

January 2007

Sharing helpers between controllers

December 2006

"Revolutionary" overkill

The state of "push" on the internet.

November 2006

Lovetastic.com internship

Chairs in a circle.

What do browser stats tell you about your customers?

nginx + ssl + rails

October 2006

MySQL Version Hell

LOC

Getting Real and Going Live: Lovetastic.com

September 2006

Dave Thomas, right on Rails again.

IronPython equivalent for OSX?

August 2006

Moore's Law in Reverse

Symbol#to_proc: hack or syntactical sugar?

nginx, Yet Another Rails Deployment Option

Getting Real with Lovetastic: #1, Why We Chose Rails

Rails API in ri

acts_as_pipe :web

Getting Real, and its Workshop

Strings in C++

IAMSTILL ALIVE

The lies I want to hear.

July 2006

Displaying ActiveRecord validation errors from AJAX requests

June 2006

A More User-friendly date_select() Alternative in Rails

Getting Rails Backwards.