PagePacker Open-Sourced
MacI am celebrating the arrival of Mac OS X 10.5 by making the source code to PagePacker available. Here is the compiled application.
Overheard from the first two days of Ruby on Rails Bootcamp
Back-End Full-Stack WebThe following quotes were heard during the first two days at the Big Nerd Ranch Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, here in Wiesbaden, Germany. ...
Cocoa and OpenBase
MacI am speaking this week at the OpenBase Summit 2007. I am doing a short introduction to Cocoa. Most of the people...
Talking in Texas
Back-End Conferences Full-Stack WebI’ll be representing Highgroove at the Lone Star Rubyconf this weekend. I’ll give two talks, one for the charity event the night before...
The NDA Litmus Test
ClientsThere’s a very easy way to ensure that your project won’t be quoted by a quality, not-starving-for-work web development firm: make the firm sign...
Reviews of Django Bootcamp
Juan Pablo Claude recently taught the Big Nerd Ranch’s new “Django Bootcamp” at the offices of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The engineers in the...
(safely) Playing with your production data
Back-End Full-Stack WebSometimes our Ruby on Rails apps work perfectly with test data, but when they go to production, errors creep in. Debugging errors on...
Capistrano Takes the HighLine, I Mean Road
Back-End Full-Stack WebIf you are following the Capistrano preview releases, you may have noticed a new dependency. Capistrano now depends on HighLine, an open source...
The Dime Tour of Rails
Back-End Full-Stack WebIf you are just getting into Rails or still don’t get what all the fuss is about and you happen to be near Oklahoma,...
Turning Conservation Into Loyalty
ClientsAt the Bovine Bakery in Point Reyes Station, CA, there’s a custom shelf on the wall that holds a collection of coffee cups. I...
A Scooter Nerd’s Top 10
While zipping around town on this beautiful spring day, I noticed that nearly all of the cars were occupied by exactly one person. Why,...
Big Nerd Ranch on Marketplace
Public radio’s Marketplace is a very thoughtful radio show that reaches 8 million people on 330 radio stations nationwide. This evening they did...
