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General programming practices, developer tools, and lessons learned writing software.

Easily Add An Instagram Feed To Jekyll

How to easily add an Instagram feed to your Jekyll site, while avoiding the gotchas.

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Freebootr Ahoy!

Launching a pirate-themed site for finding and posting free items in your area

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An Experiment in Remote Pairing

Using iChat video and screen sharing on Mac to pair program from home

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Everything I Need to Know About Pair Programming Etiquette, I Learned From My 4 Year Old

An interview with a 4-year-old about focus, respect, and distractions while pairing

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TwitterBot Gem Released

Announcing a Ruby gem for accessing Twitter via XMPP, plus the TwitterProps app built on it

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GoRuCo 2008 Wrap-up

Highlights from the Gotham Ruby Conference, including story-driven development and code quality talks

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Minor TextMate Annoyance

Customizing the TextMate do snippet to omit the block variable by default

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Search Engine Optimization for Coders

Notes from a Desert Code Camp talk on practical SEO tips for developers

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Firefox Profiles

Using Firefox profiles to separate your development extensions from personal browsing

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Striving for 100 percent

Weighing the practical value of 100% code coverage versus focusing testing on high-impact functionality

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iBug

Firebug for the iPhone -- a small webserver that forwards log messages to the Firebug console

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Nads: My First Firefox Extension

Building a Firefox extension that hides ads on web pages using XUL and JavaScript

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Meeting the Users

Spending a day observing users in their environment and discovering needs we never anticipated

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Delicious Library

A Mac app that catalogs your books, music, and movies by scanning barcodes with your iSight

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RailsConf 2007: Technology

Highlights from sessions on JavaScript, REST, Capistrano, Solr, and practical design for developers

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The case against nofollow

A point-by-point response to 13 reasons why nofollow tags supposedly fail at fighting comment spam

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Firebug Intro

A video introduction to the Firebug Firefox add-on for debugging JavaScript, Ajax, and CSS

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Web 2.0 Video

A thought-provoking video exploring Web 2.0 from a cultural perspective

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CSS Zen

Picking up The Zen of CSS Design to improve my stylesheet skills

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Bloglines Filter

Imagining a smarter RSS reader that filters posts based on crowd ratings and personal preferences

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Alpha Version 2.0

The second alpha release brings new features, faster deployments, and a step closer to public registration

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Dissecting a Regular Expression

Breaking down a Ruby regex that extracts a file extension from filenames with spaces and multiple dots

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Creative Commons

A look at the Creative Commons movement and Google's donation to their annual fundraiser

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