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Rubiverse Podcast Lives!

Where I explain that Rubiverse isn’t dead, its just been sleeping for more than two years.

Binary Lottery 2008

Watch as I demonstrate the Binary Lottery! Feel the excitement from MountainWest RubyConf 2008!

Ruby Folk Are Nice

Just one little example of how MINASWAN is alive and well in the Ruby community.

IronRuby + C# = Awesomeness

Slides and code from a presentation I gave about a fantastical future where we didn’t use a computer language just because a giant corporation told us to.

The Blizzard of 2008

My family almost died. It was scary. I took pictures.

What I Do

I participate in a silly meme that ran through some tech blogs in 2008. Ugh.

A brief history of Ruby on .NET

Hard to believe I thought Ruby would ever really succeed on .NET.

The Failure of Static Languages

A point-by-point rebuttal of criticism I received for thinking static languages don’t work.

The Rubification of C#

The beginning of the end for me and the .NET community. I try to be fair and even-handed, but nobody cares about that when they think you are slaughtering their sacred cows.

Why the kids don't like the RSS

The one where I attempt to impress Michael Coté by ranting on the internet being the way it is.

Getting RubyGems to play nice at work

I am so impressed with myself for hacking RubyGems that I announce it to the world.

Ruby Blue Visual Studio Theme

Ruby Blue is a great theme. If you absolutely have to Visual Studio and are unable to kill yourself, this will make it slightly less painful.

Will we ever get IronRuby on Rails?

I slowly start to realize that Microsoft isn’t that interested in helping developers use Ruby on Rails.

ALT.NET Conf: Day 3

Luke Melia and I do a Rails coding demo to mixed results. I decide ALT.NET is something worthwhile.

ALT.NET Conf: Day 2

I convinced some people to look at Ruby, and then ScottGu ruins everything with ASP.NET MVC.

ALT.NET Conf: Day 1

I met a lot of great people at the first ALT.NET Conference.

RailsConf 2006: Day 1

A wrap-up of my first day at the inaugural RailsConf. Apparently I was too busy to write about the other days.

Ruby.NET Beta Announced

Do you remember how excited you were when you first heard about Ruby.NET? No? Well, it was awesome.

Polymorphic Podcast on Object Thinking

I wasn’t on the Polymorphic Podcast, but I did provide some questions to be asked. Yay me.

Agile Databases

TL;DR If you are using an integration database you suck and there is no hope for you.

Ruby and Thought Leadership

Did you know that Ruby had a certain amount of thought leadership in 2006? This impressed me at the time.

Boise Code Camp Wrap-up

A short summary of the presentations I gave there.

Ruby Thinking

The one where I am frustrated by other developers not getting why Ruby is so awesome.

Boise Ruby Brigade

I started a Ruby User Group in Boise, Idaho.

Who killed Web 2.0?

The one where I lose all hope for the future and rant about it.

Book Review: Agile Web Development with Rails

Wow, do you remember the first edition of this book? Seems so simple and quaint.

Book Review: Object Thinking

Have you read ‘Object Thinking’? No? Then put the internet down and read it now.

Installing Typo on Shared Hosting

I ran Typo for a while. Seems like needless complexity now, but at the time it was so hawt!

Installing Rails on Shared Hosting

Obligatory post where you show how to install Rails. Who didn’t do one of these?

Extending Rublog with ERb

This is where I attempt to prove my serious Rublog chops.

Installing Rublog on Shared Hosting

Oh man, back in the day Rublog was all the rage.

Installing eRuby on Shared Hosting

eRuby was an early attempt at getting web responses from Ruby.

Installing Ruby on Shared Hosting

I attempt to show that installing Ruby on shared hosting doesn’t have to suck. I think I failed.