Amazon SQS with Ruby

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[..]

Zach Dennis

UNIX tee in real life

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[..]

Zach Dennis

GLSEC 2009 Talk - Driving Behaviour w/ Cucumber

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

Zach Dennis

MHS volunteers at Givecamp

Our entire team of software developers at Mutually Human participated last weekend in GRGivecamp , which is a weekend initiative to build sites for[..]

John Hwang

Local Prototype JS API Docs

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[..]

Zach Dennis

Finding unmerged commits with git-unmerged

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[..]

Zach Dennis

Grand Rapids companies enter mutually beneficial arrangement

May 4, 2009 - In early April, Mutually Human Software, a company that writes people-friendly custom Web applications, and People Design, a firm that[..]

John Hwang

JSConf2009 in review

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[..]

Zach Dennis

BDD with Rails Class

Zach Dennis

Terminal: a better way to navigate using ad

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[..]

Zach Dennis