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DevOps & System Admin. • Mar 12, 2013

Preparing Machines for Workshops with Vagrant, VirtualBox, & Puppet

If you're giving a workshop, I recommend checking out Vagrant, VirtualBox, and puppet or chef for creating the workshop development environment.

Functional Programming • Mar 05, 2013

Why Haskell Is Worth Learning

Why Haskell? It's an incredibly powerful tool to use with other langues. And learning it will make you a better, smarter, more-versatile programmer.

Developer Tools • Feb 28, 2013

Emacs or Vim? Get the Best of Both with Evil

Trying to decide on Emacs or Vim? I got the best of both worlds by porting my company's Vim config into Emacs using Evil.

Mobile Apps • Feb 26, 2013

SpeedLimit: Testing Apps on Slow Connections

While building apps, it is important to keep slow connections in mind. SpeedLimit is a tool to help test your application on simulated slow connections.

Ruby on Rails • Feb 20, 2013

Testing Email Templates in Rails

Email clients all seem to display HTML mails differently. Here are a few tools I've used to make implementing Rails email templates a bit less painful.

Web Apps • Feb 18, 2013

System Testing a Java Web Service in Jetty

There weren't any tools to create and run automated Java system tests, so we created one. It's configurable, instrumented, and available on GitHub.

Development Practices • Feb 07, 2013

Your Tests Are Your Conscience

Writing tests exposes the "pain points" in code. Without having to face those "pain points," it's all to easy to ignore code smells and press on.

UX/Design Practices • Feb 02, 2013

A Strategic Approach to Wireframing

This approach uses the site's content strategy as a foundation, and helps me keep that strategy in mind throughout my design process.

Business Practices • Jan 22, 2013

Dealing with Bad Behavior and Broken Communication in Teams

Technical professionals may rely on their technical knowledge to support their careers. Learning this dialog framework could boost their careers.

Embedded Systems • Jan 18, 2013

STM32F4 Discovery Toolchain for Mac OS X

My process for setting up a full development chain for the STM32F4 Discovery board.

Ruby • Jan 09, 2013

Simple Passive Code Generation

Code generation isn't beyond any developer capable of writing the simplest script.

UX/Design Practices • Jan 08, 2013

Innovation through Brainstorming with the F.I.T. Technique

Mid-project brainstorming sessions are a great way to maintain perspective and test your assumptions.