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Episode 002: Camping

almost 6 years ago by pogodan on sd.rb podcast.
Chris Van Pelt discussing Camping, a microframework built by Why the Lucky Stiff. Chris also gives us a preview of a cool little Camping app he built...

Episode 001: Summer of Rails

almost 6 years ago by pogodan on sd.rb podcast.
Patrick Crowley discusses Summer of Rails. He also introduces his first Summer of Rails project, Graffletopia....

Unintented Consequences: The Pitfalls of ActiveRecord Callbacks

~1 year ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
At Bloom, we have a largish Rails application: 12 000 lines of model code, alone. Yesterday, we found a major problem, and the cause was very non-obvious...

Cowboy/girl programmers don't live here

over 1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
Have you heard the myth about the lone wolf programmer? Knee deep in crushed jolt cola cans, empty latte coffee cups, and busted keyboards (due to the...

DataDumper: Copy Your Test Data to Your Development Environment With Ease

~1 year ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
The README says it all: You’re knee deep in a debugger session, and you can’t understand why something’s wrong. You wish you could fire...

Ruby 1.9.2 Fresh from the Oven or Bootstrap Chef with ruby 1.9.2 and ubuntu 10.10

over 1 year ago by pogodan on Clean Air - A Blog By Highgroove Studios.
Highgroovers. Flexible, self-starting, curious, good, nerdy, professional. These are a few of the words we used to describe ourselves in our annual 2010...

Development Environment Benefits From Config File Tweaking as Well

~1 year ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
If you’re like me, you installed PostgreSQL (or MySQL or whatever) locally for development purposes. Then you copied data into your instance, andEve...

Bad (or, my unfortunately unfavorable review of Bob Martin's Ruby Midwest keynote)

5 months ago by pogodan on omgbloglol.
Uncle Bob Martin has had a lot of influence on the software development industry over his career. His books are heralded as “landmark” and...

Del. panel reports on child mental health needs - Appleton Post Crescent

2 months ago by pogodan on sexual health.
WDEL 1150AMDel. panel reports on child mental health needsAppleton Post Crescent(WTW) — A panel formed to address the mental health needs of child sexual...

Former Fair Haven man, 20, to fight marijuana charge claiming PTSD - Asbury Park Press

2 months ago by pogodan on medicinal marijuana.
redbankgreenFormer Fair Haven man, 20, to fight marijuana charge claiming PTSDAsbury Park Press“This is not going to be in the legal realm forever.” Hafner...