The reasoning goes that if we create languages that keep people out trouble by restricting what damage they can do...
Most developers I know use AML: Arbitrary Markup Language, usually consisting of boxes, circles, and lines. When a given developer...
One problem I've seen with spreadsheets and with GUI designers is that they do a good job of revealing...
Rails extensions to simplify internationalization
There will always be a company that replaces you. At some point your BlackSwan competitor will appear and they will...
Freemium is a bad marketing plan for any premium business that hopes to be the differentiated provider.
Read_from_slave for Rails enables database reads from a slave database, while writes continue to go to the master
With Scrippets, you can add boxes of nicely-formatted script to your blog. It even works in comments.
An example of the conundrum of transferring print documents to the web, one that has become legendary in some circles...
hat's the dirty little secret of our industry; green screen apps are usually pretty darn fast. They aren't...
Despite the many JavaScript libraries that are available today, I cannot find one that makes it easy to add keyboard...
HotKey provides functionality similar to the accesskey attribute, but has many enhancements that allow for more granular control when creating...
Rake tasks to run specs and tests in parallel, to use multiple CPUs and speedup test runtime.
For instance, the UI finds that a certain card is in the graveyard. It is essential that the UI sub...
Not all icons in the Finder are created equal. There are the normal file and folder icons. Then there are...
In a nutshell, Bowline lets you build cross platform desktop applications with Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. The idea is to...
As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment...
By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the...
In a recent post, Stephan Schmidt makes several suggestions in order to write "Next Generation Java". Unfortunately, I disagree with...
You should endeavor to tell objects what you want them to do; do not ask them questions about their state...
The goal of modelling is to produce something substantially simpler than the world. This is achieved not through endlessly inventing...
For all of my professed admiration of Ruby on rails, I personally don't think that easier and more productive...
UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models...
At times when the RightThing is difficult to ascertain and a lot of time has been spent without much progress...