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Design Driven Development

The benefits of designing, then developing, rather than vice-versa.
Fred Yates
January 5, 2011
- Playbook
- Design
Use Deadweight in Your Integration Suite to Automatically Find Unused CSS Rules

How to find unused CSS rules in your Ruby test suite.
Jason Morrison
January 4, 2011
- Web
- Testing
- CSS
Ruby's Pessimistic Operator

Do you know Ruby’s pessimistic operator? It looks like this: ~> You’ve...
Dan Croak
December 29, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
Let it REST

You are building a boring blog application. A blog has many comments. Your...
Harold Giménez
December 22, 2010
- Web
- Good Code
- Rails
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
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