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Watch a Video Sneak Peak of Tammer Saleh’s “You’re Doing It Wrong” Talk

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What are you striving for when you write code? Correctness? Passing tests? A chance to apply that KillerWickedAwesomeInvertedArrayBubbleDistributedRingSort? Beauty?

Strive for maintainability, according to Tammer Saleh, formally of Thoughtbot, author of Shoulda, and now an independent consultant in the San Francisco area. Tammer, along with Chad Pytel (founder of Thoughtbot), will be presenting “You’re Doing It Wrong“, at Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference.

Watch a Video Sneak Peak of Michael Nieling’s Design Talk

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This is not the design talk to be afraid of. This is Design with a capital D. Michael Nieling, founder and principal at Ocupop, will be teaching attendees why Design is the single most important aspect of the development process, and how to address these critical concerns with intelligence and an engineer’s unique abilities. Michael, an engineer turned Designer, has experience designing everything from retail kiosks to interactive web applications to iPhone applications.

RT The Learnometer

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New article posted on the Purple blog called The Learnometer.

Yet more advice on learning Ruby & Rails

A good post on the official Ruby on Rails blog goes through advice of the Ruby development team on how to start learning Ruby.

Do programmers still buy printed books?

Yesterday I published a post titled My latest order of programming books, which received a fair number of comments both here and elsewhere online.

The Fine Art of Opportunism

No, this is not the start of a post where I point and cackle evilly as I explain how the whole "training course" thing was a sham calculated to help me harvest and sell your email addresses to spammers in Katmandu.

Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode

Today marks three years of PeepCode Screencasts and the beginning of the fourth. So we’re running a one-day sale!

Last week I recorded a presentation for the Oxente Rails where I pontificate on some of the things I’ve learned about business over the past few years. Here’s the presentation video (it’s about 30 minutes long):

Monk: A Ruby Glue-Framework for Web Development

monkI recently came across the interesting-looking Monk framework. It allows you to specify a list of dependencies for technologies to use in your project (in the form of git repositories or gems), and it will take care of extracting them into your application's vendor folder.

Sneak Peak of Yahoo’s Alan Gates Talks at Aloha on Rails

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I was so excited to visit Alan Gates at Yahoo. I’ve never been to the Yahoo campus before, and I wasn’t disappointed. Alan is a very friendly host, and Yahoo’s cafeteria had lots of gourmet (and cheap) options. Also, I think I saw Jerry Yang hanging out.

Reports of This Podcasts Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Great News. Reports of this podcast’s death are greatly exaggerated. I will be continuing the podcast. Here’s a little podcast announcing it. I just didn’t want to leave anyone hanging. The podcast will be back in a couple of weeks with a new guest host and a new format. We’re looking for sponsors also! If you’d like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch.

Kurt Vonnegut Handbuch | Rails Fire

Kurt Vonnegut Handbuch

2009 Reading list

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

Simple AWS scripting with boto

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

Android and me

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

happynerds.net is online!

Recently – for various degrees of recent that is – people really seem to be into programming language design and development.

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