urge·to·punt tech·nol·o·gies
  • Generating Random Strings in Ruby, Python, and Elixir
    Mar 5, 2019
  • SUM, DISTINCT, and Eagerly-Loaded Associations
    Sep 22, 2016
  • Execute Ruby or Python Scripts from Vim
    Feb 19, 2014
  • Base64.strict_encode64
    May 17, 2013
  • Running RSpec Within Vim
    Feb 12, 2013
  • Lowering BCrypt cost with has_secure_password
    Nov 29, 2012
  • Password validation and has_secure_password
    Nov 12, 2012
  • Rake Task to Upload Assets to S3 for Cloudfront
    Mar 23, 2012
  • Rails Source Annotations and RSpec
    Feb 20, 2012
  • RSpec + Spork Ignoring Filters
    Jan 31, 2012
  • Negative Test Suite Runtimes, or Don't Forget to Call Timecop.return
    Jan 13, 2012
  • Factory Girl and Guard
    Oct 1, 2011
  • SSL Gotcha with Puppet and Ruby 1.9.2
    Sep 14, 2011
  • Restoring Old Dashboard Visibility in OS X Lion
    Sep 6, 2011
  • Swipe Navigation in Google Chrome in OS X Lion
    Aug 24, 2011
  • Bootstrapping a Minimal RubyGem
    May 24, 2011
  • Capistrano, Ruby 1.9 and SSH Gateways — Resolved!
    May 5, 2011
  • Parsing Google Data XML with Nokogiri
    Mar 8, 2011
  • Adding a Header to an Existing S3 Object
    Feb 14, 2011
  • Useful Objects in the Rails Console
    Feb 4, 2011
  • Rails 3 and RightAws 2.0.0
    Feb 1, 2011
  • Using RVM from Launchd Scripts on OS X
    Jan 28, 2011
  • Gem Dependencies for Devise
    Jan 28, 2011
  • Capistrano, Ruby 1.9 and SSH Gateways
    Jan 16, 2011
  • Creating and submitting forms with jQuery in Firefox
    Aug 29, 2010
  • Parallels Desktop and the /usr/local/lib dependency
    Jun 24, 2010
  • Why I use Linode
    Jun 16, 2010
  • Faking POSTs to S3 in Cucumber
    Jun 10, 2010
  • Bash Port Scanner
    Jun 1, 2010
  • Rails 2.3, named_scope, destroy_all and callback confusion
    Apr 30, 2010
  • Updating Firmware on Sharp BD-HP20U Blu-ray Player
    Mar 9, 2010
  • Pondering Pickled Patterns
    Mar 7, 2010
  • How Do You Run Puppet with Ruby Enterprise Edition?
    Feb 28, 2010
  • Parallels Desktop, Debian, Cloning VMs and Networking
    Feb 27, 2010
  • Hoptoad Notifier v2 and Older Versions of Rails
    Nov 13, 2009
  • Snow Leopard, Ruby & PostgreSQL: A Cautionary Tale
    Nov 12, 2009
  • Better Conditional Sum in Google Spreadsheet
    Nov 6, 2009
  • Using Passenger with rvm
    Sep 27, 2009
  • Using ERB in YAML Configuration File
    Sep 12, 2009
  • Launchd for Cron Jobs
    Aug 30, 2009
  • Fibonacci Sequence in a Hash
    Aug 13, 2009
  • OSCON Highlights
    Jul 25, 2009
  • Open Source Bridge -- Day One
    Jun 17, 2009
  • The Importance of Being Specific
    Jun 5, 2009
  • Refactoring Views for Clarity
    May 28, 2009
  • Conditional Sum in Google Spreadsheet
    May 9, 2009
  • RailsConf Day Four
    May 7, 2009
  • RailsConf Day Three
    May 6, 2009
  • RailsConf Day Two
    May 5, 2009
  • RailsConf Day One
    May 4, 2009
  • Scotland on Rails 2009
    Apr 1, 2009
  • Connascence and Software Development
    Mar 27, 2009
  • Hidden Files and the Finder
    Mar 23, 2009

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