Blogger I love diving into the details of a technology, learning how it works, and then explaining it in simple terms that everyone can understand.
Rubyist I’ve written a few gems that you can find on my github profile, and last year I created ScaffoldHub.org. You can also find me occasionally at meetings of the Boston.rb group.
Aspiring Author I just self-published an eBook called Ruby Under a Microscope.
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June
2013
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Meet Fifteen Ruby Core Committers
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Coming This Fall: “Ruby Under a Microscope” Updated and in Print
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Ruby, Python, Java, C and Programmer Happiness
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April
2013
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Ruby’s Missing Data Structure
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Ruby 2.0 Works Hard So You Can Be Lazy
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February
2013
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An Interview With Laurent Sansonetti
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Ruby MRI Source Code Idioms #3: Embedded Objects
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January
2013
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Ruby MRI Source Code Idioms #2: C That Resembles Ruby
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Ruby MRI Source Code Idioms #1: Accessing Data Via Macros
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December
2012
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Ruby, Smalltalk and Class Variables
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An Interview With Jim Weirich
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A High Level Code Walk Through Ruby MRI
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November
2012
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My eBook build process and some PDF, EPUB and MOBI tips
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October
2012
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Xavier Noria: The Code Gardener
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September
2012
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How Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From Lisp
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August
2012
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Narihiro Nakamura: Ruby’s GC Innovator
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July
2012
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Objects, Classes and Modules
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June
2012
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How Ruby Executes Your Code
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The Start of a Long Journey: How Ruby Parses and Compiles Your Code
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May
2012
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A Conversation With Mark Bates About How To Learn CoffeeScript
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One Chapter From My Upcoming eBook: Ruby Under a Microscope
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April
2012
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Matt Wynne On Using Cucumber
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Exploring Ruby’s Regular Expression Algorithm
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March
2012
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Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.0
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Learning More About JRuby from Charles Nutter
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Learning From the Masters: Sinatra Internals
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February
2012
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The Joke Is On Us: How Ruby 1.9 Supports the Goto Statement
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An Interview with Andre Arko and Terence Lee from the Bundler Team
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Is Ruby interpreted or compiled?
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Journey to the center of JRuby
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A chat with Nick Quaranto about RubyGems.org internals
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January
2012
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My first impression of Rubinius internals
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Seeing double: how Ruby shares string values
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How to Customize Twitter Bootstrap’s Design in a Rails app
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Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters
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December
2011
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Learning from the masters part 2: three metaprogramming best practices
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Too good to be true! Twitter Bootstrap meets Formtastic and Tabulous
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Learning from the masters: some of my favorite Rails commits
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November
2011
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Two ways of using Redis to build a NoSQL autocomplete search index
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Finding your soulmate: autocomplete with Redis in Rails 3.1
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Twitter Bootstrap, Less, and Sass: Understanding Your Options for Rails 3.1
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Besides being faster, what else is new in Bundler 1.1?
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October
2011
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Don’t be terrified of building native extensions!
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Show some love for prepared statements in Rails 3.1
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Why Bundler 1.1 will be much faster
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It’s time to clean up your mess: refactoring Cucumber step definitions
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The technology you never knew you were using to test your Rails site
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September
2011
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How does Bundler bundle?
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Bundler’s Best Kept Secret
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How does Kaminari paginate?
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June
2011
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Where does my javascript code go? Backbone, JST and the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline
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April
2011
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Contributing a new scaffold to ScaffoldHub
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March
2011
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View Mapper for Rails 3: ScaffoldHub
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February
2011
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Customizing Toto to support blog post categories
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January
2011
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4 tips for how to customize a Toto blog site
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December
2010
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CodeBuddy: See your Ruby stack come alive!
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November
2010
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How to integrate Amazon Simple Pay into a Rails 3 app
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ReliefHub hackfest: helping orphanages in Haiti
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October
2010
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ActiveRecord with large result sets - part 2: streaming data
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September
2010
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ruby187gc.patch
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ActiveRecord with large result sets - part 1: select_all vs. find
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July
2010
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Code record/playback using Rails 3 generators
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OSCON
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Using LEFT OUTER JOIN with SearchLogic
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June
2010
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Using method_missing to customize SearchLogic
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May
2010
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How to install Paperclip in a Rails 3 app
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April
2010
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How to create a slideshow using JQuery and Rails in 10 minutes or less
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Creating associations to existing data part 3: has_many :through scaffolding
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March
2010
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Class Factory: Factory_girl-like syntax for dynamically creating Ruby classes
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February
2010
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Getting started with Ruby metaprogramming
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Creating associations to existing data part 2: belongs_to with auto_complete
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January
2010
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Creating associations to existing data part 1: belongs_to scaffolding
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December
2009
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How does the complex-form-examples sample app work?
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How to convert a Rails plugin into a gem
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November
2009
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Scaffolding for auto complete on a complex, nested form
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Scaffolding for complex forms using nested attributes
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October
2009
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Paperclip scaffolding
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View Mapper: Scaffolding for your models and plugins
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Auto_complete scaffolding
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September
2009
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Rails generator tutorial part 2: writing a custom manifest action
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August
2009
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Tutorial: How to write a Rails generator
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July
2009
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Generating view scaffolding code for existing models
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June
2009
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Taming the beast: Using JRuby and RSpec to test a J2EE application
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Repeated auto complete plugin usage change
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Auto complete for complex forms using nested attributes in Rails 2.3
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May
2009
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Paperclip sample app part 3: saving file attachments in a database BLOB column
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Paperclip sample app part 2: downloading files through a controller
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April
2009
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Paperclip sample app
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Database storage for Paperclip: rewritten to use a single table
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Filtering auto_complete pick lists – part 2: using named scopes
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March
2009
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Filtering auto_complete pick lists
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February
2009
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Database storage for Paperclip
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January
2009
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Sample app for auto complete on a complex form
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Repeated_auto_complete changes merged into auto_complete
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Using MySQL transactions with Drupal unit tests
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Using transactions in a separate database with Drupal PHPUnit tests
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Using a test database with Drupal unit tests
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TDD keeps your PHP code separate from Drupal
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December
2008
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Using TDD to write a Drupal module
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Writing your first PHPUnit test in Drupal
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Example Drupal module to use for TDD demonstration
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November
2008
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The auto_complete plugin refactored to support repeated fields and named scopes
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Testing is a lesson in humility
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October
2008
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Modifying the auto_complete Plugin to Allow Repeated Fields
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Autocomplete plugin doesn’t work for repeated fields
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September
2008
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Problems Installing the Cutline Theme in Mephisto
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Mephisto Setup on HostingRails.com
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Why to use TDD with Drupal
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