David Heinemeier Hansson sparked a debate on Twitter about Ruby testing frameworks. A lot of people saw it as slamming RSpec and others saw it as constructive conversation about what tools you use and why. This is how I view to see it and where I come down on this debate. I also discuss why…

At Mountain West Ruby Conference, Mike Moore brought up that many members of the Ruby community have lost part of the community roots. Particularly, the acronym MINASWAN, which stands for “Matz is nice and so we are nice.” There are a lot of people out there who, rather than looking to help, are looking to…

  This week's episode is an interview with Chad Fowler—author of The Passionate Programmer.

This week I go into hiring developers and how you determine whether or not they'd make a good employee. The hard thing with hiring is that you really don't know what you're getting until you've made the hire. You can look at their code, pair with them, and talk to them to get a feel…