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MyGem.configure Block

How to write conventional configuration code in Ruby.
Dan Croak
January 20, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Clearance
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Business: Our Hiring Process

How we hire designers and developers.
Chad Pytel
January 18, 2010
- Playbook
On-the-fly image handling with Dragonfly

Dragonfly lets you dynamically crop, resize and transform images through the URL.
Mark Evans
January 13, 2010
- Rails
- Ruby
- New Bamboo
- Web
On The Go

Our next Ruby on Rails workshops are coming soon.
Dan Croak
January 12, 2010
- News
- Web
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
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Business: Why We Don't Subcontract

No subcontracting.
Chad Pytel
January 7, 2010
- Playbook
Snake Game using HTML5 Canvas tag

Learn how to iteratively develop the Snake Game for the web browser.
Paul Jensen
December 31, 2009
- CSS
- HTML
- JavaScript
- New Bamboo
- Web
2009 Ruby survey results

Thanks to the 1000+ developers who participated in our ruby community survey...
Matt Jankowski
December 30, 2009
- Web
- Ruby
Factory Bot step definitions for Cucumber

Did you know… Factory Bot includes some steps for your integration testing...
Dan Croak
December 15, 2009
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Pushing the boundary of Real Time Web with Twitter and XFactor

We use WebSockets and NodeJS to monitor Twitter in real time during the XFactor final.
Makoto Inoue
December 14, 2009
- Fun
- Websockets
- New Bamboo
- Web
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