Growing as Makers Review: ‘Design & Thinking’ Movie and Discussion My short review of the Design + Thinking movie and a follow-up panel conversation.
Extracurricular Activities Counting Cards in Anki’s Database with ActiveRecord & Ruby How I used a small Ruby script with ActiveRecord to learn more about my Anki database.
Developer Tools Script Away your Annoyances: Employing Automator in a Pinch OS X's Automator is a handy tool for quickly scripting annoying workflows.
Developer Tools Obliterate Unsavory git Objects with the BFG Demonic git blobs got you down? Time to bring out the BFG.
.NET / WPF HIDSharp: USB HID Communications in .NET HIDSharp is a great little library for USB HID communication in .NET.
Ruby YAML Configuration in Ruby with Settingslogic Settingslogic is an awesome RubyGem for straightforward access to Ruby application configuration.
Development Practices Script Away Your Annoyances – Testing a Data Import Process Let's create a script to automate the testing of a slow, ugly, and brittle data import process into Fedora Commons.
Ruby Easier Debugging with capybara-screenshot How I've used capybara-screenshot to work through some perplexing test failures.
UX/Design Practices What Are the Categories of Design? A brief review of the categories of design, courtesy of Bettina von Stamm's book "Managing Innovation, Design, and Creativity."
Ruby How to Keep Font Awesome from Crashing capybara-webkit If you're developing a Ruby on Rails application on OS X, you'll need this workaround to keep Font Awesome from crashing capybara-webkit.
Ruby RSpec: Thank You for Running My Tests in Random Order Running your tests in random order will increase their robustness. You can now configure RSpec to do just that.
Presenter First Presenter First in GTK+ and C – Updated for 2012 A sample project that demonstrates Presenter First in the context of GTK+ and C — updated to work with the latest tools.
