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2022
2022/08/31

Adding Large Numbers in C
2021
2021/08/11

Nested Route Parameters in Rails
2018
2018/07/30

Cross-Site Forgery Protection in Rails Tests
2018/07/19

Catch Unsafe Migrations With The Strong Migrations Gem
2018/07/13

Render An ERB Template With A Hash Of Values
2018/06/19

How To Specify The Version Of A Gem To Use From The Command-Line
2018/06/16

A Silly JavaScript Interview Question
2018/06/13

TLDR Pages
2018/06/12

Avoid Getting An Error Message On Signout In Devise
2018/06/06

Building Custom Validators in Rails
2018/05/09

Git Error: Could could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled
2018/05/03

The Ampersand Dot Operator in Ruby
2018/05/01

Find Where a Rake Task is Defined
2017
2017/11/02

Surprising Behavior With Private Methods In Ruby
2017/11/01

Customizing Pry
2017/10/06

Don't Repeat Yourself Can Be Harmful
2017/09/30

How and Why to Use Service Objects in Rails
2017/09/29

Fizzlefade Using a Feistel Network
2017/09/06

Wolfenstein 3D Fizzlefade Algorithm
2017/09/01

Healthy Hands and Eyes as a Software Engineer
2017/07/10

Zero Downtime Migrations in Rails
2017/05/12

Dealing with N+1 Queries in Rails
2017/04/20

Validate Uniqueness in Rails
2016
2016/09/21

The Minimum Arel Every Rails Developer Should Know
2016/09/14

Loading Configuration Data on Startup with AngularJS
2015
2015/04/06

Working With Global Variables In AngularJS
2015/04/02

Private Members In CoffeeScript
2015/04/01

Classes, Inheritance And Mixins In JavaScript
2015/03/31

Controlling Access To S3 Buckets - The Right Way
2015/03/30

From WordPress to Jekyll
2015/03/28

Testing AngularJS Directives With Jasmine
2015/03/27

Testing Asynchronous Code With AngularJS and Jasmine
2015/03/26

Working With Promises In AngularJS
2015/03/25

Writing Custom Filters With AngularJS
2015/03/24

Angular - Using Filters in Controllers
2015/03/23

Internal Classes In CoffeeScript
2015/03/10

Asynchronous Validations in AngularJS
2015/03/09

Special Functions for dealing with Whitespace in HAML
2015/03/02

Overriding Named Route Parameters in Rails
2014
2014/11/03

ngNYC Presentation – Advanced Directives
2014/09/09

Data Migrations with Serialized Fields in Rails
2014/09/08

Using Custom Directives in AngularJS
2014/09/02

You suck at technical interviews – Response
2014/09/01

Top Reads for July & August
2014/07/28

Ruby Hash
2014/07/25

Creating Irreversible Migrations in Rails
2014/07/07

Patterns for Data Migrations in Rails
2014/07/03

Top Reads for June
2014/06/02

Top Reads For May
2014/05/02

Leaving ThoughtWorks
2014/05/01

Top Reads for April
2014/04/02

Top Reads for March
2014/04/01

Case Insensitive Autocomplete in OSX
2014/03/12

Adding Custom Fields to Your Devise User Model in Rails 4
2014/03/11

Book Review: NodeJS The Right Way
2014/03/10

Faster CSV Imports with Rails
2014/03/04

Top Reads for February
2014/02/26

Using Pluralize in your Models in Rails
2014/02/25

Streaming Data with Rails and Heroku
2014/02/14

Rails File Size methods on Fixnum
2014/02/06

Book Review: Crafting Rails 4 Applications
2014/02/04

All Rails db Rake Tasks and What They Do
2014/02/03

Top Reads for January
2014/01/08

Force Page to Reload on Browser Back in Rails
2014/01/03

Creating a New Rails App without Installing the Gem
2013
2013/12/31

Top Reads for December
2013/12/31

Index Name too Long in Rails
2013/12/19

Convert seconds to hours:minutes:seconds in Ruby
2013/12/18

2013 – A year in review
2013/12/10

Unix Trick: PBCopy
2013/12/09

Unix Trick: Brace Expansion
2013/12/06

My Favorite Unix Trick
2013/12/04

Prevent a User Navigating Away from a Page with Unsaved Changes
2013/11/29

Top Reads for November
2013/11/08

Allow Users to Remove Uploaded Images with Paperclip
2013/11/07

Tips for Implementing Emails in Rails
2013/11/05

RSpec Best Practices
2013/11/04

Integrating EJS Templates into Rails
2013/11/01

Top Reads for October
2013/11/01

How to Restore a PostgreSQL Backup from Heroku
2013/10/31

Testing ActiveRecord Callbacks
2013/10/30

Simplify your Ruby code with tap
2013/10/29

Integrating Solr Search with Spree
2013/10/24

E-Commerce in Rails with Spree
2013/10/16

Using Rails Helpers inside a Controller
2013/10/04

Could not verify the SSL certificate for RubyGems
2013/10/03

Top Reads for August & September
2013/08/15

Intercept Emails in Rails
2013/08/12

Configuring S3 with Rails, Paperclip and Heroku
2013/08/09

Are Daily Stand-ups Necessary?
2013/08/07

Using Codeship for Continuous Integration
2013/08/06

In the Defence of Pair Programming
2013/08/05

Enabling Basic HTTP Auth on Rails
2013/08/02

Top Reads for July
2013/07/29

AngularJS Best Practices
2013/07/11

AngularJS Pain Points
2013/07/10

Show local commits with Git-Svn
2013/07/09

See which commit deleted a file with Git
2013/07/08

What’s in a Good Commit?
2013/07/03

Book Review: It Will Be Exhilarating
2013/07/02

Tips for Getting Started with iOS
2013/07/01

Top Reads for June
2013/06/04

Check if a variable is defined in CoffeeScript
2013/06/01

Top Reads for May
2013/05/14

Debugging CoffeeScript Line-by-Line
2013/05/13

How to Create a Patch with Git
2013/05/10

Amend Multiple Commit Messages with Git
2013/05/09

Custom Sorting in AngularJS
2013/05/08

C99 Initializer Syntax in Objective C
2013/05/07

Mobile Web versus Native Apps
2013/05/06

10 CoffeeScript Features You Might Not Know
2013/05/03

Resources for Learning CoffeeScript
2013/05/02

Switching to Mac – Two Years Later
2013/05/01

Top Reads for April
2013/04/30

Using ngResource with AngularJS
2013/04/29

The Problem with Interface Builder
2013/04/26

Using Multiple ViewControllers on a Single Screen in iOS
2013/04/25

Record and Playback Audio in iOS
2013/04/24

Getting Started with AngularJS
2013/04/23

A Responsive Redesign
2013/04/18

The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
2013/04/17

Thoughts on Parse
2013/04/16

Book Review: The Phoenix Project
2013/04/02

Automated iOS Testing with Zucchini
2013/03/25

Literals in Objective C
2013/03/11

Extending classes in Objective C using Categories
2013/02/12

Perform an action after a delay in iOS
2013/02/11

Logging a Frame in iOS
2013/02/04

Playing video in iOS
2013/01/30

Storing Data with NSUserDefaults
2013/01/29

Doing callbacks with blocks in iOS
2013/01/28

A tough interview question
2012
2012/12/19

2012 – A year in review
2012/12/11

Populating form values through a link in Rails
2012/12/03

Authenticating Rails Engines with Devise
2012/11/16

How much duplication should we tolerate in tests?
2012/11/15

Using Git bisect
2012/11/07

Debugging in Ruby
2012/11/06

Squashing the wrong commit in git
2012/10/31

My Vim Setup
2012/10/09

How effective are your estimations?
2012/10/08

Using Spine.js mobile
2012/10/02

Scrolling hides content on Mobile Safari
2012/09/20

Shared Examples with Jasmine
2012/09/05

Six months using Vim
2012/08/06

Six months with Spine.js
2012/06/28

Permissions for id_rsa are too open
2012/06/27

Rails Session not being persisted
2012/05/15

Book Review: User Stories Applied
2012/05/02

Configuring Postgresql on OSX Lion
2012/04/30

Rails – The next five years
2012/04/27

Like Query with Mongoid
2012/04/26

RailsConf 2012
2012/04/24

[BUG] cross-thread violation on rb_gc()
2012/03/01

Comment Ruby code with Vim
2012/02/15

Closures in Ruby
2012/02/14

Alias class methods in Ruby
2012/02/13

Using Zip in Ruby
2012/02/10

Presence of a substring in Ruby
2012/02/09

For vs Each in Ruby
2012/02/08

Exploring Enumerable in Ruby
2012/02/07

RubyFuza 2012
2012/02/03

Scopes in Rails
2012/02/02

Design vs User Experience
2012/02/01

Keeping your routes RESTful
2012/01/31

Checking if variables are defined in Rails Partial Views
2012/01/30

Good User Stories
2012/01/27

Book Review: Programming Ruby
2012/01/26

Method Resolution in Ruby
2012/01/25

Test Behavior, Not Implementation
2012/01/24

Catch and Throw in Ruby
2012/01/23

Exceptions in Ruby
2012/01/20

Block Variable Scope in Ruby
2012/01/19

Splat Operator in Ruby
2012/01/18

Book Review: The Rails 3 Way
2012/01/17

Symbol#to_proc in Ruby
2012/01/16

Alias methods in Ruby
2012/01/13

Loving and Hating programming languages
2012/01/12

Ruby map, collect and select
2012/01/11

User Login done right
2012/01/10

Build a Collection of Unique Values in Ruby
2012/01/09

RESTful Routing in Rails 3
2012/01/05

Routing in Rails 3
2012/01/04

Hardware Review: Thunderbolt Display
2012/01/03

Book Review: A Book Apart
2011
2011/12/28

Book Review: The Mythical Man-Month
2011/12/27

JavaScript (or any other) as a First Language
2011/12/23

2011 – A year in review
2011/12/22

What’s up with StackOverflow search?
2011/12/14

What’s new in HTML5
2011/12/13

How to start a Programming Blog
2011/12/12

New job, New blog
2011/12/10

Turn off beep sound in OSX Terminal
2011/11/09

First steps with Ruby – from a C# guy
2011/10/05

An Interview with ThoughtWorks
2011/09/29

Joining ThoughtWorks
2011/09/16

Better JavaScript–Iterating Arrays
2011/06/28

Better JavaScript–What is this?
2011/06/22

Better JavaScript-User Defined Objects
2011/06/21

Better JavaScript–Namespaces
2011/03/25

3D Tic-Tac-Toe with HTML5
2011/02/08

Using AutoMapper
2011/02/07

My Favourite ReSharper Shortcuts
2011/02/02

Convention-Based Templating in MVC 3
2011/02/01

Microsoft Interview Questions and Answers 2
2011/01/31

Microsoft Interview Questions and Answers
2011/01/28

Generating Test Data with AutoPoco
2011/01/27

Sharing code with Pastebin and jsFiddle
2011/01/26

Dependency Injection in MVC 3
2011/01/25

Output Caching in MVC 3
2011/01/24

Client-Side Validation in MVC 3
2011/01/20

Server-Side Validation in MVC 3
2011/01/19

Ajax improvements in MVC 3
2011/01/18

Razor View Engine
2011/01/17

Using and Testing HTML Helpers in MVC
2011/01/17

ASP.NET MVC 3 Released
2011/01/14

Authentication with OpenId–Part 2
2011/01/12

Authentication with OpenId
2011/01/11

Uploading a File with Asp.Net MVC
2011/01/10

Using Linq-to-Sql with Sqlite
2010
2010/12/23

Web Passwords 101
2010/12/16

Blog Redesign
2010/12/01

Google Interview Questions and Answers
2010/11/25

Why is there no string.Format Extension Method?
2010/11/24

Using log4net for logging and monitoring
2010/09/04

Devs4Devs Presentation – MVC 3
2010/09/03

Ruby: Summing values in an Array
2010/08/31

Using Ruby Inject
2010/08/30

How I’m learning Ruby
2010/06/05

Why FIFA.com crashed
2010/05/06

Setting up a Rails Development Environment on Windows
2010/05/04

Things I’ve learnt as a Web Developer
2010/02/22

Sharpy performance testing
2010/02/19

How to extend Sharpy
2010/02/18

Master pages and partial views in Sharpy
2010/02/17

Expressions in Sharpy
2010/02/16

Sharpy functions and modifiers
2010/02/15

Introducing Sharpy
2010/01/28

Writing your own filters with LINQ
2010/01/28

Implementing a custom LINQ provider
2010/01/27

Permission-based access in ASP.NET MVC
2010/01/21

How to use View Models
2010/01/20

Use View Models instead of FormCollection
2010/01/12

Why I like Pair Programming
2010/01/07

Multithreading example in C#
2010/01/06

Debugging JavaScript errors
2010/01/05

Put JavaScript includes at the bottom of your page
2009
2009/12/08

Code Ownership – who owns what?
2009/11/30

How to Debug Fitnesse Fixtures
2009/11/24

Unit Testing – Why I didn’t like it at first
2009/11/23

So you want to learn MVC
2009/11/19

Retrieve Views and Submit Forms with Ajax, JQuery and MVC
2009/11/18

Ajax with JQuery and MVC
2009/11/12

Configuring StructureMap using web.config
2009/10/28

Testing Asynchronous Code
2009/10/13

Authentication using LDAP
2009/10/08

Re-throwing Exceptions
2009/10/07

Exceptions in a Distributed Environment
2009/10/05

Exceptions should be Exceptional
2009/09/15

Evaluating an If Statement with Dynamic LINQ
2009/08/20

The search for a better View Engine – ASP.NET MVC
2009/08/18

Using Brail View Engine with ASP.NET MVC
2009/08/17

Using Brail View Engine with ASP.NET MVC – An Introduction
2009/08/14

Building a Bug-tracking website with Windows Workflow Foundation – Part 3
2009/08/14

Building a Bug-tracking website with Windows Workflow Foundation – Part 2
2009/08/13

Building a Bug-tracking website with Windows Workflow Foundation – Part 1
2009/08/03

Running a Windows Service inside a Console Application
2009/07/31

XPath with Xml Namespaces
2009/07/30

Can we help the client not get stuck on Visual Details?
2009/07/28

That’s NOT Unit Testing
2009/07/09

Common Error – The difference between explicit and safe casts
2009/07/02

Repository Pattern – Are we using it wrong?
2009/06/30

Generating strongly typed content links in ASP .Net MVC with T4 templates – Part 2
2009/06/24

Generating strongly typed content links in ASP .Net MVC with T4 templates
2009/06/22

Lightweight Test Automation Framework – Automated Build Support
2009/06/17

Integration Testing – Lightweight Test Automation
2009/06/16

Integration Testing – Selenium
2009/06/15

Integration Testing – Fitnesse
2009/06/11

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