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  1. Where to stay when you visit us

    Our recommendations for hotels to stay when visiting us in Boston.

    Mike Burns
    March 2, 2010
    • Boston
  2. Writing a Hoptoad Notifier: Contacting the Toad

    An example of writing a library to hit the Hoptoad error notification API.

    Mike Burns
    January 8, 2010
    • Web
    • Python
    • Airbrake
  3. Quacking like an ActiveRecord in Rails 2.3.4

    You know everything about pretending to be an ActiveRecord::Base object, and...

    Mike Burns
    September 10, 2009
    • Web
    • Rails
  4. The thoughtbot Office Was A-Rumblin'

    The Rails Rumble 2009 was just this weekend and the thoughtbot office was...

    Mike Burns
    August 24, 2009
    • News
    • Web
  5. Why Do Rubyists Test So Completely?

    The Ruby community, according to some data I am making up, has the strongest...

    Mike Burns
    August 14, 2009
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Good Code
  6. Unpopular Developer 5: Stop Unit Testing Your Scaffold Controllers

    This goes out to all the veteran Ruby on Rails developers: those who have the...

    Mike Burns
    August 12, 2009
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Good Code
  7. Search By Quacking Like ActiveRecord

    The story we’re trying to implement here is: as a user I want to search and...

    Mike Burns
    July 22, 2009
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  8. Integrating Vim Into Your Life

    More tips from thoughtbot about using vim, but this time with an emphasis on...

    Mike Burns
    April 8, 2009
    • Vim
    • Unix
  9. Testing Rake's Integration

    So now you’re integration testing, because that’s what cool kids are doing...

    Mike Burns
    March 20, 2009
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  10. I Accidentally the Whole SMTP Exception

    You have a slick, exclusive, invite-only Web app for sharing Tor URLs, with...

    Mike Burns
    December 22, 2008
    • Web
    • Ruby
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