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2025

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Jul 16 Stop Pretending You're the Last Developer
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Jun 25 A New Rails Podcast: On Rails
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Feb 01 Steering Rails Apps Out of Technical Debt - Rails World
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2017

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Jul 06 8 things I look for in a Ruby on Rails app
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2016

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Jun 27 Lessons in Open Source
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Jun 03 PostgreSQL is the preferred database of Ruby on Rails developers
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Apr 12 2016 Rails hosting survey is open
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Feb 11 Tom on Automatic Differentiation
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2015

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Dec 20 Action Cable demo by DHH in Rails 5
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2014

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Dec 01 Ezra Zygmuntowicz -- Farewell, Friend.
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Apr 24 Six days to complete the Rails hosting survey
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Apr 02 Ruby on Rails is like IKEA...whaa?
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Mar 28 2014 Rails Hosting Survey is now open
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Mar 22 Oh My Zsh gets a proper web page
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Feb 27 Jr. Ruby on Rails developers
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Feb 26 8 Things Github’s Atom Editor is not going to solve for you
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Feb 25 GitHub prepares to release Atom
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Feb 20 Jim Weirich -- Farewell, Friend.
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Jan 10 Ruby on Rails developers in New York
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2013

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Dec 01 oh-my-zsh reaches over 500 contributors
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Nov 24 Reducing MySQL's memory usage on OS X Mavericks
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Apr 09 See you at LessConf and RailsConf?
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2012

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Sep 14 2012 Rails Hosting Survey results
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Jul 10 GoogleAnalyticsProxy - now minified
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Jul 05 Planet Argon on social media
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Jun 19 Setting Akamai Edge-Control headers with Ruby on Rails
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May 31 Announcing the 2012 Rails Hosting Survery
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May 30 A Mobile Site or Responsive Design?
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2011

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Aug 22 Planet Argon is hiring
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2010

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Sep 01 Announcing RailsDeveloper
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May 27 Join the zsh revolution
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Feb 17 Planet Argon Blog
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Feb 08 Installing Ruby on Rails, Passenger, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oh My Zsh on Snow Leopard, Fourth Edition
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2009

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Dec 28 (oh my) Zsh themes Gone Wild! 18+
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Dec 16 RubyURL goes GOP...
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Nov 16 Sending email: Controllers versus Models
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Nov 14 Using BETWEEN for SQL comparisons
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Nov 11 Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 3: How We Manage Bugs
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Nov 11 Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video
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Nov 01 Tracking Google Analytics events in development environment with GoogleAnalyticsProxy
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Oct 30 Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 2: The Letter Scotch
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Oct 22 Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 1: Shin Splints
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Oct 21 Tracking AJAX-driven events in Ruby on Rails for Google Analytics conversion goals
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Oct 21 RailsOnPg released
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Oct 21 Email twice. Four months later
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Oct 20 The 8-Hour Rails Code Audit
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Oct 13 Flash Message Conductor now a Gem
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Sep 30 Oh My Zsh gets an auto-updater
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Sep 05 Planting the seeds
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Aug 31 Oh My Zsh gets theme support
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Aug 30 ..and on the seventh day, Science created zsh
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Aug 20 So long and thanks for all the hoodwinks
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Aug 12 Ch-ch-ch-changes at Planet Argon
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Jul 24 Slides from my Rails Underground 2009 talk
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Jun 23 Using model constants for project sanity
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Jun 23 Launching Rails projects, an open call for lessons learned
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Jun 23 Aliasing resources in Ruby on Rails
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Jun 19 Remember to Flush Your Toilet
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Jun 18 Speaking at Rails Underground 2009
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Jun 11 Howdy Rip!
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Jun 10 Estimating versus Timeboxing, part 1
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Jun 10 Email. Twice daily. No more, no less.
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Jun 03 What can we do right now?
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Jun 03 Hello, HeyBrainstormr.com
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Apr 10 82,520 minutes on Phusion Passenger
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Apr 09 Building a prototype? Bring some rope.
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Apr 09 20 articles on Cucumber and a free beverage recipe!
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Mar 16 HTTParty goes foreign
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Mar 11 The Rails Hosting Survey 2009 Survey results are in!
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Feb 16 Git commit-msg for Lighthouse tickets
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Feb 13 Show me your and I'll show you mine (terminal prompts with git branches)
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Feb 13 On shells
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Feb 11 Switch to Passenger (mod_rails) in development on OSX in less than 7 minutes or your money back!
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Feb 02 Planet Argon - new site
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Jan 28 Rolling out new updates for Rails Boxcar
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Jan 27 Rails Hosting Survey - 5 days left...
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Jan 17 Lessons through failure. Episode 1
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Jan 15 Rails Hosting Survey (continued)
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Jan 13 Take the Ruby on Rails Hosting in 2009 Survey
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Jan 13 Question: Plugins or Gems? (or both?)
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Jan 12 Get to know a gem: Ghost
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Jan 12 Favicons for 37signals apps
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Jan 12 BetterFavicon for Google
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Jan 11 Subdomain accounts with Ruby on Rails explained
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Jan 10 Rails and Business in the 2009 World
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2008

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Dec 28 Managing your Life the Agile Way in 2009
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Dec 23 Rails 3 and Merb
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Dec 17 RailsBoxcar.com 2.0
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Dec 14 Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist
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Dec 12 AlphaClone on PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails
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Dec 11 Lighthouse tickets and Git branching
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Dec 11 Interviewed by Database Radio Podcast
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Nov 26 The HTTParty has just begun
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Sep 18 Lesson Learned: Git Ref Naming
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Sep 11 MySQL is just a toy
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Sep 02 Ubiquity meets RubyURL
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Sep 01 Google Chrome: discuss
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Aug 31 The new RubyURL API
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Aug 29 Git: Push it! (real good)
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Aug 29 Flash Message Conductor
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Aug 19 RSpec: It Should Behave Like
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Aug 18 Things.app syncs with the iPhone!
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Aug 12 Alan Cooper @ Agile2008 slides
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Aug 04 Expanding Rails Boxcar packages
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Jul 31 Pair Programming and Micro Projects
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Jul 24 ShortURL on Github
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Jun 20 Ruby 1.8.7 on MacPorts causing some problems
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Jun 04 Basecamp...
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May 30 New Boxcar plans announced!
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May 28 Meet us at RailsConf
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May 23 Coming to Portland for RailsConf or CabooseConf
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May 23 Boxcar Conductor plugin moved
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May 22 The Art of Delivery, part 2
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May 22 Boxcar on Twitter
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May 11 Was away on vacation
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Apr 22 RubyURL meets Zombies!
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Apr 16 Review: Braintree
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Apr 15 Boxcar Conductor: Rails deployment made easy
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Apr 14 Announcing Cobalt and monthly subscriptions for Boxcar
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Apr 11 Portland is calling... (you)
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Apr 11 Interviewed by Hanselminutes
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Apr 10 git-svn is a gateway drug
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Apr 04 1Password and Fluid.app
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Apr 03 iPhone's Missing Feature
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Apr 02 I am forking Rails
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Mar 27 Tip: Link to Unimplemented
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Mar 26 Managing SEO-friendly HTML Titles with Rails
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Mar 26 Managing Required Gems on Rails Projects
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Mar 25 Things (in the Rails world) You Don't Yet Understand
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Mar 24 DRY(a): Year After Year
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Mar 11 Learning Git without getting your SVN feet wet
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Mar 05 The Argon Express 2008? It's not too late!
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Mar 05 Campfire messages in Growl
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Mar 01 Launch your own RubyURL
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Feb 28 Deploying Rails with an interactive Capistrano recipe to your Boxcar
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Jan 31 Tip: Save your users 15+ seconds of their day
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Jan 22 Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Third Edition
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Jan 18 Heading to London, grab a pint?
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Jan 06 ShortURL 0.8.4 released and gets a new mainainer... me!
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Jan 06 RubyURL through QuickSilver
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Jan 01 Review: FogBugz, part 1
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Jan 01 Advanced Mathematics and Programming
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2007

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Dec 28 PGCon 2008 - Call for Papers
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Dec 24 Rails Business: Year Review for 2007
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Dec 19 Putting Tumblr to work for you
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Dec 17 SkitchCasting was so 2008
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Dec 17 Embracing Chaos, part 1
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Dec 11 Get to Know a Gem: Rak
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Dec 02 That Checkbox Needs a Label
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Dec 02 Saying Goodbye Was Never This Hard
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Nov 27 Rolling up my Sleeves, continued
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Nov 21 Moved to our new studio
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Nov 20 Zeldman on Web Design
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Nov 20 Skitch... my favorite desktop application of 2007?
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Nov 15 Master/Slave Databases with Ruby on Rails
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Oct 27 Using MacPorts Ruby and Rails after Upgrading to OS X Leopard
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Oct 27 Starting MySQL after upgrading to OS X Leopard
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Oct 26 OS X Leopard Tip: Skitch on Every Space
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Oct 06 Spice up your Terminal with colored grep pattern results
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Oct 06 Chad Fowler's Dirty Little Secret?
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Oct 05 Multiple Database Connections in Ruby on Rails
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Oct 04 PLANET ARGON is seeking fresh talent... could it be you?
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Sep 26 Edge Rails Documentation: Revisited
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Sep 25 Rails Business: 'Weekly' Review #4
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Sep 04 Boxcar: Open for business
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Aug 28 RubyURL bookmarklet 2.0
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Aug 28 Rails Development Performance Tip - dev_mode_performance_fixes
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Aug 21 Collaborative Bookmarking... UNLEASHED
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Aug 17 Subscribe to Basecamp RSS Feeds in Google Reader
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Aug 09 RubyURL bookmarklet screencast
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Aug 08 RubyURL: new design and code base
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Aug 05 Rails Business: 'Weekly' Review #3
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Aug 02 What was that idea again?
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Aug 02 Spec Your Views
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Aug 01 Designers, Developers, and the x_ Factor
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Jul 27 YSlow and Rails performance: Getting UJS and AssetPackager to play nice
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Jul 27 89 gmail invites available!
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Jul 16 RubyURL 2.0 on the horizon
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Jul 16 Rails Code Audit Tips - Filtered Parameter Logging
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Jul 02 Airplane customers prefer bland food...?
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Jun 25 One ID to rule them all
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Jun 19 Put Your Controllers on a Diet already!
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Jun 19 Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Second Edition
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Jun 19 Berkun introduces ADD
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Jun 18 Rails Code Audits and Reviews, continued
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Jun 18 Rails Business: Weekly Review #2
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Jun 17 Audit Your Rails Development Team
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Jun 09 Rails Business: Weekly Review #1
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Jun 06 AT&T Online Support could use some QA
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Jun 03 Last.fm bought by CBS
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May 29 Ruby on Rails gets down to business
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May 25 Ostrava on Rails, part 2
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May 23 Hug Your Designer Day, part 2
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May 22 Hug Your Designer Day
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May 21 Ruby on Rails meets the Business World
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May 17 All the cool kids are doing it... why aren't you?
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May 16 Heading to Portland for RailsConf... by foot
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May 10 RailsConf is coming to Beertown
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May 09 Where is Robby?
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May 08 Introducing Boxcar... coming soon to a train station near you!
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May 02 To think that tumblin' was a thing of the past
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May 02 Speaking at Ostrava on Rails
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Apr 30 Terrific?
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Apr 28 Q&A: ActiveRecord Observers and You
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Apr 27 Observers Big and Small
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Apr 23 Wouldn't it be cool if it?...oh wait.. it already does
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Apr 19 You Might Learn Something at the Back of the Train
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Apr 17 One of those mornings
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Apr 10 Embracing Failure, part 1
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Apr 10 BDD is still kinky
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Mar 28 Happy Birthday Allison
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Mar 27 Do Your Views in Ruby on Rails need a cleaning service?
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Mar 26 Staying home
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Mar 20 Review: Highrise, part 2
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Mar 15 Review: Highrise, part 1
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Mar 12 Stikkit wins award at SXSW
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Mar 12 Poor Communication and IT Projects
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Mar 12 Invited to the Microsoft Technology Summit 2007
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Mar 09 Seth Godin on Dialogue
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Mar 02 Please Make Fun of the Boss
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Feb 28 Show up smiling
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Feb 27 quote of the day: server tricks
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Feb 26 Meet... Chris, Graeme., and Gary
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Feb 20 Seattle in late March
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Feb 15 On Apologies
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Feb 13 Get to Know a Gem: Hpricot
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Feb 13 Be Careful that you don't Stub your Big Toe
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Feb 12 RSpec Bundle for TextMate
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Feb 12 Poke My Brain
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Feb 12 Gems Gone Wild!
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Feb 11 Sharing Custom TextMate Bundles with Subversion
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Feb 09 Extending ActionController, part two
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Feb 08 Is BDD kinkier than TDD?
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Feb 07 Don't Go Hungry During RailsConf 2007
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Feb 06 Goodbye Instiki, Hello JunebugWiki
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Feb 02 Remember When?
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Feb 02 Business of Rails Panel at RailsConf 2007
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Feb 01 Goodbye Pound, Hello Nginx
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Jan 28 Rails 1.2 On CRN.com
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Jan 24 Let's not forget the little people
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Jan 23 Announcement: New Ruby on Rails Deployment Group
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Jan 16 Every Second Counts with a Piston in your Trunk
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Jan 10 The Zen of Auto Rspec
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Jan 10 Meet the Cheat
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Jan 09 Apple listens to Robby and releases an iPhone
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Jan 08 RailsConf 2007 in style
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Jan 06 Working in Portland Coffee Shops and Cafes Reviews, part 2
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Jan 04 Those that Tend the Store need Dialogue
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2006

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Dec 30 New Years Restorations
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Dec 23 Happy holidays!
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Dec 19 Rails Hosting for the New Year
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Nov 22 Ruby on Rails hosting with Nginx
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Nov 18 Don't Over Promise
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Oct 20 This Week in d3: 2
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Oct 18 Teams Need Healthy Collaboration
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Oct 15 RubyURL hits 10k
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Oct 14 Rails applciation caching with memcache
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Oct 12 The Circular Perspective of BDD
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Oct 10 Portland Public Transporation and the Zen of Office Management
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Oct 10 Dialogue versus Debate
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Oct 06 This Week in d3: 1
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Oct 06 Pictures from AJAXWorld 2006
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Oct 05 Want to move to Portland?
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Oct 03 Slides: Rails meets the Legacy World
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Oct 03 Announcing the Dialogue-Driven Development Project
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Oct 02 In California, for Rails Seminar
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Sep 27 Project Enlightenment with d3
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Sep 26 Rails is not about inventing your own style
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Sep 25 Rails Hosting with Resource Limits
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Sep 25 Question: Scouting new mobile service
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Sep 25 Matz on Considering Interface
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Sep 20 Luigi has a secret
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Sep 13 RailsConf Europe, day zero
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Sep 12 Using Gravatar
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Sep 12 The Technology of Dialogue
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Sep 11 New Business Card
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Sep 11 Meeting up in London
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Sep 10 Question: Travel Restrictions
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Sep 10 kill -9 zed
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Sep 08 RubyConf Express
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Sep 08 Apache, Typo, and Feedburner
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Sep 06 Injecting Rails into your Legacy World
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Sep 05 Typo upgraded to trunk
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2005

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Aug 22 PL/Ruby loves RubyGems and DRb