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Death and Passion

~5 years ago by James Britt on O'Reilly Ruby.
Reports of the death of Ruby Code & Style have been greatly exaggerated. I’ve been the Editor-in-Chief of Artima’s Ruby Code & Style for somewhat...

Some RailsConf Links

~5 years ago by James Britt on O'Reilly Ruby.
I’ve been keeping tabs on RailsConf trough assorted posts that show up in my feed reader. One blogger I particularly like is fellow Zonie Tim Heuer...

Thoughts on Haml

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
Every so often I get prompted (more or less) for my thoughts on Haml. Someone suggested I write them up. I’m not a fan. Some vocal number of...

Ruby Best Practices Blog

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
The Ruby Best Practices blog has gone live My first post is Solve the problem, not just a problem You can read the comments on Disqus I’m...

Monkeybars resolver.rb fix

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I was having problems when adding unpacked gems to the load path in a Monkeybars app. On Windows, if the expanded path that had spaces, items added using...

Hey Twitter: Teach me German

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I have a long-running background process of trying to learn German. I can understand a fair amount, but have difficulty calling to mind the words when...

What one book do you recommend, and why?

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I tweeted that I had a $50 Amazon gift card and asked what one book would people recommend. If you didn’t, or don’t want to, reply to that tweet...

So I bought a Mac ...

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
A Mac Mini, actually. For occasional development work. Many things are quite nice and well done. Others, annoying. It looks very nice, but I was...

Wii! Playing with Ruby

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
At MountainWest RubyConf 2009 I gave a talk on using the Wii controllers to drive Ruby code. PDF version of the slides Video should be appearing...

MWRC 2009 after-thoughts

~3 years ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
I had a blast at MountainWest RubyConf 2009. Some random thoughts: Big thanks to Yehuda Katz for taking the time to explain the changed planed...