Musings of a startup junkie and Ruby on Rails nerd.

Welcome to Millarian! I write about web development, Ruby on Rails, consulting, and the occasional startup lesson learned the hard way.

Business Culture

Why strong company culture matters and what happens when bureaucracy and politics fill the void

business startups

RailsConf 2007: Community

Meeting fellow Rails developers in person for the first time at RailsConf in Portland

events community

RailsConf 2007: Technology

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

events rails code

RailsConf donations

The Rails community raised $33,000 for charity during RailsConf 2007

events community

RailsConf 2007: Back from Portland

A travel recap of Portland -- great food, beautiful parks, and the Hotel Monaco

events personal

RailsConf 2007: Preparing for Portland

Preparing for RailsConf 2007 in Portland by watching DHH's keynote from last year

events rails

The case against nofollow

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

seo code

Google Maps API with large data sets

Exploring optimization techniques for displaying thousands of markers on a Google Map

javascript how-to

Ruby Time Limitations

Ruby's Time class has platform-dependent minimum values -- use Date or DateTime instead

ruby how-to

Firebug Intro

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

code how-to