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What Makes a Leader? What Is Leadership?

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
Everyone has their own stories about bad bosses or bad companies they have worked for, but few people have stories about that one boss or company that was...

Hire Slow, Fire Fast

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
Starting a company is a daunting task. There are tons of things you need to consider, think about and contemplate. Obviously it is a great idea to get some...

Day Coders

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
It is well known in marketing that a great idea that is to esoteric or theoretical will never catch on. An idea has to be identifiable and easily discussed...

Essays and Various Writings

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
I have followed various tech writers for some time (Paul Graham, Joel and, of course, DHH), and I have really liked the approach they take and talk about...

Strings vs Symbols in Ruby

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
I have been asked this question at least four times in the past week so I thought I would write about it. What is the difference between a string and...

Ruby Design by Contract!

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
A colleague of mine and I were discussing some our favorite programming concepts that were not in our favorite languages and I brought up and old stand...

Extending Rails Presentation

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner. [Linked from: Notes on Rails]
These are the slides from my presentation at the 9/19/2006 AZ on Rails meeting. The topic is Extending Rails, Part I, which centers around the concept...

AZ on Rails Meeting Tonight!

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
Don’t forge that the AZ on Rails meeting is tonight! All details can be found on the AZ on Rails Website I will post my presentation later...

Desert Code Camp

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
Desert Code Camp is back (though, not in pog form ;) )! Josh and I are working on the Rails track. So far I am slated to present Intro and Advanced...

in_place_editor_field

over 5 years ago by Jason W on Jason Warner.
I just spent an hour because I was stupid and didn’t realize something, so I thought I would share it with the entire world! I wanted to finally...