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  1. SSL for Rails with Heroku and DNSimple

    Buy, prepare, and deploy an SSL certificate from DNSimple for your Heroku app.

    Dan Croak
    May 21, 2014
    • Web
    • DNS
    • Rails
  2. Manage Team and Personal Dotfiles Together with rcm

    How to have your individual dotfiles and your company’s dotfiles live in harmony together.

    Dan Croak
    March 16, 2014
    • Unix
    • Open Source
  3. Playbook v2

    Announcing the second major version of our playbook.

    Dan Croak
    January 7, 2014
    • News
    • Playbook
  4. Using Polymorphism to Make a Better Activity Feed in Rails

    You won’t find “polymorphic partials” in Rails’ API documentation. However,...

    Dan Croak
    December 2, 2013
    • Web
    • Rails
  5. Caching API Requests

    When making requests to an external service’s API, some requests will...

    Dan Croak
    November 29, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
  6. Faster Grepping in Vim

    We often search our projects for specific text within Vim like so: :grep...

    Dan Croak
    November 27, 2013
    • Vim
  7. Vim Spell-Checking

    There are times when we edit prose in Vim, such as in a project README or git...

    Dan Croak
    November 19, 2013
    • Vim
  8. New thoughtbot.com

    We’re pleased to announce the redesign of thoughtbot.com! People generally...

    Dan Croak
    September 27, 2013
    • News
  9. Running Specs From Vim

    Test driven development thrives on a tight feedback loop. However, switching...

    Dan Croak
    August 5, 2013
    • News
    • Web
    • Vim
    • Testing
  10. How to Create Postgres Indexes Concurrently in ActiveRecord Migrations

    By default, Postgres locks writes (but not reads) to a table while creating...

    Dan Croak
    July 30, 2013
    • Web
    • PostgreSQL
    • Ruby
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