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Explore My Annals
The one where I finally release new minitest-rails versions. Comments
The one where you make a game with Ruby. Comments
The one where I throw down on puns. Comments
The one where my heart is broken from the loss of a friend. Comments
The one where I show how easy it is to add the Minitest spec DSL to a Rails 4 application, without using minitest-rails. Comments
The one where I shame myself and my family by exposing my obsession with Minitest and Rails and My Little Pony. Comments
The one about getting minitest-rails ready for prime time. Comments
The one about code quality, Discourse, ruby drama, and redemption. Comments
The one where I explain why I still like you even thought I didn't accept your conference proposal. Comments
The one where I talk about wrote a game nobody ever heard about. Comments
The one where I argue that Rails places its tests wrong and propose minitest-rails as a solution. Comments
The one that announces minitest-rails, a library that enables you to test your Rails 3 apps using minitest. Comments
The one where I share my thoughts and slides about my presentation at RailsConf. Comments
The one where I share my thoughts and slides about my presentation at Ruby on Ales 2012. Comments
Where I explain that Rubiverse isn't dead, its just been sleeping for more than two years. Comments
**Watch** as I demonstrate the Binary Lottery! **Feel** the excitement from MountainWest RubyConf 2008! Comments
Just one little example of how MINASWAN is alive and well in the Ruby community. Comments
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. Comments
My family almost died. It was scary. I took pictures. Comments
I participate in a silly meme that ran through some tech blogs in 2008. Ugh. Comments
Hard to believe I thought Ruby would ever really succeed on .NET. Comments
A point-by-point rebuttal of criticism I received for thinking static languages don't work. Comments
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. Comments
The one where I attempt to impress Michael Coté by ranting on the internet being the way it is. Comments
I am so impressed with myself for hacking RubyGems that I announce it to the world. Comments
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. Comments
I slowly start to realize that Microsoft isn't that interested in helping developers use Ruby on Rails. Comments
Luke Melia and I do a Rails coding demo to mixed results. I decide ALT.NET is something worthwhile. Comments
I convinced some people to look at Ruby, and then ScottGu ruins everything with ASP.NET MVC. Comments
I met a lot of great people at the first ALT.NET Conference. Comments
A wrap-up of my first day at the inaugural RailsConf. Apparently I was too busy to write about the other days. Comments
Do you remember how excited you were when you first heard about Ruby.NET? No? Well, it was awesome. Comments
I wasn't on the Polymorphic Podcast, but I did provide some questions to be asked. Yay me. Comments
TL;DR If you are using an integration database you suck and there is no hope for you. Comments
Did you know that Ruby had a certain amount of thought leadership in 2006? This impressed me at the time. Comments
A short summary of the presentations I gave there. Comments
The one where I am frustrated by other developers not getting why Ruby is so awesome. Comments
I started a Ruby User Group in Boise, Idaho. Comments
The one where I lose all hope for the future and rant about it. Comments
Wow, do you remember the first edition of this book? Seems so simple and quaint. Comments
Have you read 'Object Thinking'? No? Then put the internet down and read it now. Comments
I ran Typo for a while. Seems like needless complexity now, but at the time it was so hawt! Comments
Obligatory post where you show how to install Rails. Who didn't do one of these? Comments
This is where I attempt to prove my serious Rublog chops. Comments
Oh man, back in the day Rublog was all the rage. Comments
eRuby was an early attempt at getting web responses from Ruby. Comments
I attempt to show that installing Ruby on shared hosting doesn't have to suck. I think I failed. Comments