A couple months ago @damon and @dacort I were talking about how useful Rubular (a utility website: one page, does one thing and does it well) was and I told them about my idea to make a “Rubular for strftime formatting codes”. If you’re unfamilar with the strftime function, it’s the piece of software that makes dates and times look [...]

An interesting aspect of StackOverflow is that they don’t require you to be logged in / registered or identified to the site in any way to ask a question (because early on Joel and Jeff determined that having a constant flow of new questions was vital to the success of the site). However, this policy has some interesting side effects: [...]

Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp. Some things really stuck out to me: 1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted. 2. Plugins as a [...]

Nelson Minar was helping a friend sort out why: “Google Reader was sending folks to his own domain rather than directly to the link destination.” Turns out it is because of the differences between guid and link elements in an RSS Feed. You can tell he’s really frustrated with the time and effort this cost him (my most recent RSS [...]