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Yuletide Logs and MongoDB Capped Collections

This Christmas, maybe you’re thinking of the long trip back home through...
Nick Quaranto
December 21, 2010
- Web
Learning Japanese the Rubyist way

If you know Ruby then you already know some Japanese grammar.
Makoto Inoue
December 17, 2010
- Japanese
- Ruby
- New Bamboo
- Web
The best design books I read this year (that weren't about web design)

Besides being a great place to meet attractive single people, bookstores are...
Chad Mazzola
December 17, 2010
- Design
Writing matchers for shoulda

Shoulda provides assertions that allow developers to quickly test common...
Joe Ferris
December 16, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Shoulda
Fishing For Trout In Our Suspenders

The means by which we update our templates.
Dan Croak
December 14, 2010
- Web
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Suspenders
Hoptoad is now available as a Heroku Addon

Install the Hoptoad add-on via Heroku if you like things like that.
Jason Morrison
December 13, 2010
- News
- Airbrake
Recap: Design for Developers

Some results from our design for developers event.
Chad Mazzola
December 10, 2010
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- Upcase
Love, Hate, & tmux

Many at thoughtbot run their editor+shell combos inside of tmux. Some remote...
Dan Croak
December 10, 2010
- tmux
- Unix
- Vim
We're Looking for an Office Assistant

About three years ago we decided that we no longer needed a dedicated support...
Chad Pytel
December 8, 2010
- News
Keep your privates close

A problem with the way we declare private methods in Ruby is the fact that...
Harold Giménez
November 30, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
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