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Twitter is amazing. It is a global conversation and place where most of my friends spend their time. It is a place where I can go when I need to reach out to a friend or ask for help.  I … Continue reading →

I wish someone would enlighten me.  I cannot for the life of me figure out why we use YML in Ruby. This is not a YML vs XML vs JSON discussion either.  It’s a question of why we would use … Continue reading →

Back in December my friend and mentor, Neal Ford dared me to try going vegan for a month.  As he put it “what have you got to loose?”  It was a great decision. After two weeks I felt amazing. You … Continue reading →

My first programming job was for a print company. One of the original founders quickly ripped out an entire ERP system for them that enabled them to have a leg up on the competition. They were in startup mode, so … Continue reading →

I’m a self-proclaimed Ruby evangelist.  I ask people all the time to challenge the assumptions of the platform they are working in.  I challenge people to keep an open mind.  Today, a friend of mine challenged me on twitter to … Continue reading →

I’m actually amazed at how many times I had the thought “I should blog that”.  I thought that anything I had to say worth hearing could be summed up in 140 characters (and many things not worth hearing, I do … Continue reading →

Back in 2005, Mike Clark wrote a blog post about learning ruby through unit testing. Ever since then I have had this itch to formalize what he was trying to do. Well, Jim Weirich and I got together to work … Continue reading →