Today I needed to look into working with AWS SQS using Ruby. Google eventually lead me to the Rightscale AWS project on github. This looked great but so[..]

tee is a pretty sweet little unix utility that allows you to copy standard output and make a copy of it to one or more files. For example, let’s say that[..]

Last Tuesday I had the pleasure to speak at the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (GLSEC) about behaviour driven development (BDD). The topic of[..]

I like to have useful information accessible to me at a moment’s notice. I’m a fan of Sam Stephenson’s Prototype library and I really like the layout and[..]

git-unmerged is a tool that helps you find commits that have not been merged into an upstream branch like master or origin/master. It displays useful[..]

I just got back from JSConf2009 and it was absolutely amazing. If I hadn’t known it was the first JavaScript conference I probably would not have guessed[..]

Over the years I've used my own aliases in .profile (or .bashrc) as well as bash functions, perl scripts, etc produced by coworkers or random people on[..]

There are many business requirements that we need to remember or ensure that gets done as developers which are not necessarily related to code or the[..]

Sometimes you are presented with a situation where you should use custom callbacks/events in your ActiveRecord model.