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Over the last few weeks I've been using macvim and janus to write code. The more I learn about VIM, the more I love...

There's a lot more to the ABC iPad app than just the iOS components. There's a HTTP Live Streaming level to this that manages...

Jamis Buck is a Ruby on Rails developer working at 37signals. He was part of the Rails Core Team, created the SQLite driver for...

Tom Preston-Werner is one of the founders of Github.com. He's a Ruby programmer who has successfully launched a business used by hundreds of thousands...

Freelancing is a lot of work. One of the hardest parts is finding clients. I've been getting a lot of work lately and I'm...

I got asked the question "When do I stop testing in order to get stuff done?" My answer was "I go faster doing TDD."...

Every programmer should find opportunities to learn something new. Why? It causes you to confront new problems. It increases your ability to solve problems. It expands your skill...

You can get the video version of this podcast here. David Heinemeier Hansson sparked a debate on Twitter about Ruby testing frameworks. A lot of...

At Mountain West Ruby Conference, Mike Moore brought up that many members of the Ruby community have lost part of the community roots. Particularly,...

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...

This turned out to be a great interview with David Heinemeier Hansson. He's the creator of the Ruby on Rails web framework and...

I've been reading the Software Craftsmanship mailing list where they were discussing whether software is a craft. Someone brought up the concept of what...

This week's podcast guest is Evan Light. I met Evan at the Ruby|Web Conference at Snowbird. He's responsible for Coulda and the Ruby DCamp. Evan...

Michael Hartl put together a free rails tutorial online. We met at RubyConf and determined to talk about his tutorials. His path into Rails...

So, between family stuff, more work than I can realistically handle, and being sick, I'm afraid I fell behind on the podcast. However,...

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There are a lot of opinions about what makes code readable. This was a short discussion of a few of them. I also recommend...

Andy Hunt is the author or co-author of several programming books including: The Pragmatic Programmer Programming Ruby (the Pickaxe book) Pragmatic Unit testing in C# with Nunit Practices...

Thank you guys so much for helping me make it to RubyConf this year. It was a great experience. I was exposed to a...