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Paul Graham on Viaweb

We knew that e-commerce was really about graphic design, not transaction...
August 12, 2011
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- Design
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Never Fear, Traits are Here

I can’t count the number of times I’ve worked on Rails apps where I’m using...
Josh Clayton
August 12, 2011
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- Factory Bot
WIP it ♪♪♫♪ WIP it good

Our development process calls for a design component up front. Design is...
Harold Giménez
August 10, 2011
- Web
- Design
- Testing
2011 Rubyist's Guide To A Mac OS X Development Environment

Update: A better approach is detailed in Laptop Setup for an Awesome...
Dan Croak
August 9, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
- OS X
This week in open source

Another week of great pull requests to our open source projects. ...
Mike Burns
August 5, 2011
- News
- Open Source
How to fix `rm -f .git/index`

Ever gotten this message? fatal: Unable to create...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 4, 2011
- Git
2.5 Ways to Execute a Shell Command

I always get confused by the difference between %x{}, backticks, and system...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 3, 2011
- Web
- Ruby
Multiline strings in Capybara

When checking for a multiline string in Capybara, you need to use page.text...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 2, 2011
- Web
- Testing
Medium Robots Learning From Other Medium Robots

Our three Apprentices, Prem Sichanugrist, Gabe Berke-Williams, and Alex Godin...
Chad Pytel
August 2, 2011
- News
Lessons from a thoughtbot Apprentice

Hi, my name is Gabe Berke-Williams. I’m going to kick off this apprentice...
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 2, 2011
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