An interesting TED Talk about how open source and the git model of working can help society.
My writing process
I’ve been writing a lot more recently. Between theadmin.org, Chirk HR, the Little Stream Software newsletter, and Chirk HR’s newsletter I’m probably close to writing a few thousand words per week. That’s not a lot for a writer but for a freelance developer and business builder, that feels like a lot. One thing that has …
Learning pjax – Tutorial and Screencast
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. This week I’m back to JavaScript, trying out the pjax library from Chris Wanstrath. pjax 1.0.0 was just released a few days ago and I’ve been …
Learning EventMachine
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. This week I decided to try out EventMachine: a fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby. I have to say, I was pretty impressed. Both by its …
Error Pages – “Doctor I don’t feel good”
Ah, the Internal Error. Mr HTTP 500. Something every developers hates to see in their inbox on a Saturday morning. I’ve been noticing a problem with how internal errors are presented recently. I like to call it the “Doctor, I don’t feel good problem”. Doctor, I don’t feel good problem Patient: “Doctor, I don’t feel …