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Topics and Articles
General Application and Web Development
- The 48 Hour Application Challenge
- Simple, Cross-Platform PNG Transparency Support
- FACETS Framework
- Post-Migration Ruby Leopard Blues
- Remote Viewing: Pair Programming with iChat Screen Sharing
- Mac OS X Organization Tips for Developers, Part One
- Using Aliases to DRY the Terminal: OS X Tips for Developers, Part Two
- Using DomainBrain to Manage Credentials in the Cloud
- BBEdit 9 and Subversion 1.5
- Basic Git Integration with BBEdit
- Calculating Percentage Complete via a SQL Query
- Restore Development Databases After Snow Leopard and MySQL Upgrade
- WWDC Sessions on iTunes Music Store
- That Core Data Glow
- Hot Cuppa Cocoa
- WWDC (Quick Summary)
General Geekery
- Your Icon Sucks.
- Game Theory and Google Image Labeler
- Technorati Woes (Updated)
- Game Theory and Google Image Labeler (Revisited)
- Best Google AdWords Targeting Ever
- Enabling Ident for a Home Network
- Chaining Routers
- Self-Signed SSL Certificates in Apple Mail
- Bizarre BBEdit 9 bug
- XCode Crashes after Safari 4 Beta Installation
- New Terminal Toolbar Scripts for Finder
- Favorite Snow Leopard Tips and Features
Personal
- Kehr Wieder
- Rewriting Kafka
- No Degree Required
- Teaser
- Self-Employed Boy Genius
- Audacity of Truth
- A Long Time Ago…
- Dancing About Architecture
- Random Access Memory Lane
- Looking Back, Looking Forward
- The Spindle
- New Album Full of Lovecraftian Goodness
- Apprentice RPG Beta Launch
- Random Elevator Encounter
- Why I Love Chicago…
- Cute...
- Three Decades of Corey
- Obama is RESTful
- Ruby One-Liner: DEADBEEF and Other Words You Can Spell In Hex
- Danger: Helvetica
Ruby on Rails
- Using RSpec to Test ActiveRecord Associations for Arbitrary Models
- DRY Your Tests With Dynamic Specs in RSpec
- Writing Specs for Controller Actions that Return JSON
- Tracking Down Slow-Running Examples in RSpec
- Using Faker to Pre-Populate a Dev Database
- File_column bug with case sensitivity
- My New Favorite Rails Plug-In
- Getting to know acts_as_versioned
- Browse RDocs in Style with RDoctor
- Making RCov Pretty with Custom CSS
- HTML and CSS Enhancements in RCov 0.9.0
- Rcov 0.9.0 Now Available
- Simple, Semantic Charts and Graphs for Ruby on Rails with Seer
- Add Filters to Views Using Named Scopes in Rails
- Confusion over Convention: Ambiguous Helper Methods
- Rails ActiveRecord Relationships Flowchart
- DRY Your Google Queries with the Custom Ruby on Rails Search Engine
- RDocs for Local RubyGems In Your Browser
- Date and Time Based ActiveRecord Find Conditions and Time Zone Support
- Quickly Profile an ActiveRecord Model
- Introspection & Reflection for Rails Controllers
- Using counter_cache with STI Models
- Nested Sets and Single-Table Inheritance
- Drag and Drop With Nested Sets in Rails
- Creating a Heatmap or Tag Cloud in Rails
- Benchmarking Array Comparisons in Ruby
- Getting Started with Engines in Ruby on Rails, Part One
- A Capistrano Task for Synchronizing Your Local MongoDB with Production
- Make a Local Copy of Your MongoHQ Database
- Cheat Sheets with BBEdit
- Moving Back to BBEdit from TextMate
- BBRails Toolkit: Enhanced Ruby on Rails Development in BBEdit
