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- 04.30.07 Jester 1.2: Flexible REST posted by Eric Mill in Development Technology
- 08.20.07 Unpopular Developer 4: Separation Anxiety, Part The First posted by Floyd Wright in Development Technology
- 08.24.07 Shoulda news posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 09.06.07 let's get ready to rumble posted by Chad Pytel in Business Development
- 09.26.07 Heading to Ruby East posted by Tammer Saleh in Business Development
- 09.27.07 All the kings horses posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- 09.25.07 save bang your head, active record will drive you mad posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 09.24.07 forget about the view posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 09.21.07 i did not know that posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 08.22.07 A smattering of t-bot news posted by Chad Pytel in Business Development
- 08.14.07 Rails has_and_belongs_to_many conveniences posted by Eric Torrey in Development
- 08.02.07 Managing Client Expectations with Code posted by Chad Pytel in Design Development Technology
- 05.01.07 coding without ifs posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 05.01.07 Presenting at RailsConf 2007 posted by Tammer Saleh in Development Technology
- 05.16.07 A widget for your finger! posted by Chad Pytel in Business Design Development Technology
- 05.30.07 Quirks of Assignment posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 06.04.07 Features and Bugs Addendum posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 06.11.07 Jester 1.3: Jsonic REST posted by Eric Mill in Development Technology
- 07.24.07 Shoulda gets busy with your controllers posted by Tammer Saleh in Development Technology
- 07.26.07 It's the little things... posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 09.18.07 its not your responsibility posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 09.16.07 time to step up posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.24.07 Disambiguate rails helpers posted by Eric Torrey in Development
- 10.01.07 Remember your MVCs posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 10.02.07 Using Jester from inside an XPCOM Component posted by Chad Pytel in Development
- 10.03.07 Thoughtbot: Too lazy to present on our own stuff. posted by Tammer Saleh in Development Technology
- 10.05.07 Did you order the code red?! posted by Dan Croak in Development
- 10.09.07 The Ideal of Agnosticism posted by Floyd Wright in Development
- 10.23.07 Almost Painless Nested Resources posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 10.25.07 Jester 1.5: Universal REST posted by Eric Mill in Development Technology
- 07.26.07 simplier restful posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.30.07 render right posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.31.07 depends posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 09.12.07 for the record posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 09.10.07 no need posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 09.06.07 Brittle Tests posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 09.05.07 do we need that posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 08.16.07 real nice framework you got here posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 08.15.07 constant annoyance posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 08.07.07 auto load posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 08.06.07 it's the wiz and nooobody beats it posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 11.08.07 Book Review: Troubleshooting Ruby Processes by Philippe Hanrigou posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 04.26.07 ActiveResource in a flurry posted by Eric Mill in Development Technology
- 01.25.07 Unpopular Developer 2: Down With Big Testing posted by Eric Mill in Development
- 01.23.07 Unpopular Developer 1: Come on in, The Water's Fine posted by Floyd Wright in Development
- 01.12.07 Squirrel - Once More, with Feeling! posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 01.18.07 Nulls. Can't live with 'em can't live without 'em posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 01.15.07 Camping.goes :Camping posted by Eric Mill in Design Development Technology
- 01.12.07 Second refactoring of security roles posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 12.29.06 Bustin' out "joins" posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 12.27.06 What's the deal with Rails' polymorphic associations? posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 01.19.06 Java will bite you posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 11.06.05 The correct amount of planning posted by Matt Jankowski in Business Development
- 11.12.05 Looking at the world through MVC glasses posted by Chad Pytel in Business Development
- 12.14.05 Built-in XSS protection in rails will confuse you posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- 12.21.05 SwitchTower Gotchas posted by Matt Jankowski in Development Technology
- 02.02.07 ActiveResource and Testing posted by Eric Mill in Development
- 02.12.07 Making A Radio Station With Ruby posted by Eric Mill in Design Development Technology
- 02.13.07 A Convenient Squirrel Addition posted by Jon Yurek in Development Technology
- 04.19.07 cruise_control.rb campfire plugin posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 04.18.07 Basic Readability posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 04.16.07 Jester 1.1: Asynchronous REST posted by Eric Mill in Development Technology
- 04.13.07 My code is great! Look at these numbers! posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 04.09.07 Unpopular Developer 3: Patterns of Abuse posted by Floyd Wright in Development Technology
- 04.06.07 Introducing the Shoulda Testing Plugin posted by Tammer Saleh in Development Technology
- 04.02.07 Jester: JavaScriptian REST posted by Eric Mill in Development Technology
- 03.30.07 Paginated Squirrel posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 03.17.07 Battle Royale - Testing posted by Tammer Saleh in Development Technology
- 03.09.07 specin rspec with rails posted by Tammer Saleh in Development Technology
- 02.26.07 The new era of thoughtbot, inc. posted by Chad Pytel in Business Development
- 02.24.07 Our ActiveRecord book ...and YOU! posted by Chad Pytel in Business Development
- 02.21.07 Rails Patch: Change the name of the :id parameter in Routing resources posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 01.29.06 Other things can bite. posted by Chad Pytel in Development
- 11.14.05 Rails session stores posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 11.05.05 Try Ruby! posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 11.21.05 For all you budding programmers... posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 11.27.05 Quake + Java = Jake posted by Jon Yurek in Development Technology
- 12.18.05 Leaving business in the office posted by Jon Yurek in Business Development
- 09.29.06 Squirrel - Natural Looking Queries for Rails posted by Jon Yurek in Development Technology
- 10.13.06 offsetHeight especially slow in Firefox for Mac posted by Chad Pytel in Development
- 10.19.06 Command line utility to interrogate models posted by Tammer Saleh in Development Technology
- 10.31.06 BBEdit "Projects" in Applescript posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 11.09.06 LDAP Server for ActiveRecord Models posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 11.09.06 Using wrapper classes with ActiveRecord to enforce security rules posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 01.08.07 To each his own posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 01.19.07 Relax dont do it When you want to go to it posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 03.17.07 Rails don't know testing posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 03.20.07 No code left untested posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 04.12.07 unless what posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 04.13.07 never be satisified posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 04.14.07 it's all about behavior posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 04.23.07 don't be normal posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 04.25.07 true or false posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 05.03.07 just scrap it posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 05.07.07 views gone wild posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 06.01.07 features and bugs posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 05.29.07 ruby on fails posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 06.06.07 null ain't false posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 06.08.07 she's a beauty posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 06.14.07 fist in your facebook posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 06.27.07 route it, route it, route it out loud posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.01.07 no content for you! posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.05.07 any? != ! empty? posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.09.07 a compromise posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.06.07 muck focking posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.10.07 ints or strings posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.12.07 what posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.16.07 intention posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.17.07 pure class posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.19.07 against convention posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.20.07 when things happen posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 07.23.07 the more things change... posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 10.11.07 yeah what is that posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 10.17.07 ruby everywhere posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 12.03.07 Shhh! Your Test::Unit backtraces are too noisy! posted by Dan Croak in Development Technology
- 12.04.07 Winners of 'the contest' posted by Matt Jankowski in Business Development
- 12.10.07 Shoulda in Advanced Rails Recipes posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 12.20.07 Massage your params posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- 12.28.07 Oh Right, Rubedo posted by Eric Mill in Design Development Technology
- 01.14.08 relax with your hacks posted by Jared Carroll in Development
- 01.14.08 The defest of leppards posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- Application consistency posted by Eric Torrey in Development
- 01.25.08 Using @url instance variable in rails posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- 01.29.08 To em, or to err. posted by Angelo Simeoni in Design Development
- 02.12.08 Riddle me this posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- 02.15.08 When, a Rails plugin posted by Dan Croak in Development Technology
- 02.18.08 More Upcoming Events posted by Chad Pytel in Business Development
- 02.20.08 mean what you say posted by Angelo Simeoni in Development
- 02.22.08 what, is it good for? absolutely nothing posted by Jared Carroll in Development Technology
- 02.28.08 extending action_mailer posted by Jared Carroll in Development Technology
- 03.03.08 Shoulda 4.0.1 - the lean and mean release posted by Tammer Saleh in Development
- 03.05.08 Fluid Scripts for Campfire posted by Chad Pytel in Development Technology
- 03.18.08 For attaching files, use Paperclip posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 03.27.08 extra action posted by Jared Carroll in Development Technology
- 04.01.08 uno o dos posted by Jared Carroll in Development Technology
- 04.02.08 Static pages for the enterprise posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- 04.04.08 RESTful contact forms posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- 04.10.08 The Emerging Standards Bureau posted by Matt Jankowski in Development
- 04.15.08 Moving to Github posted by Jon Yurek in Development
- 04.17.08 mas o menos posted by Jared Carroll in Design Development Technology
- 04.24.08 not yet posted by Jared Carroll in Design Development Technology
- 04.25.08 Pitfalls in RESTful "wizards" posted by Chad Pytel in Development
- 05.01.08 Skinny Controllers, Skinny Models posted by Joe Ferris in Development
- 05.09.08 Widgetfinger Is Go. posted by Chad Pytel in Business Development Technology
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