Reactuate

When I took my current job I said it would probably the last one I ever had where I worked for someone else. My idea was to learn to work for myself. But if I could find a company in Houston that worked like this, I’d go work for them.
From a high level, Google’s process [...]

If you do anything with web design you should check out Xyle.

It is a very cool tool for analyzing he style sheets of websites. The interface is awesome. My office mate, who doesn’t do any web stuff that I’m aware of said you should register just on the principal of it being so cool. I’m [...]

This is the demo site for Squible, a WordPress theme. It is really different and takes a totally unusual approach to how a blog should look.

For one it only shows you part of one post on the main page. It also puts your blogroll on another page. It is based on tag and not category [...]

I have a model that works something like this. I have a User object. Each User has a Profile. Each Profile has a Picture. Well not always. At creation there is no Picture and the user could choose to never set one.

Prior to my latest upgrade of RoR I would use a line like this [...]

Joey over at Tucows has an article about where all the cool stuff is happening and how it isn’t happening at Microsoft.

For an example he shows a big chunk of XML and big chunk of Java and these three lines of Ruby:
01 class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
02 has_many :items
03 end

The jist of the article [...]

I was reading some of the links off Particle Tree’s article on Improving Your Coding Lifestyle and found this article on The Value of Experienced Coders.

A couple of things struck me as someone who has done this programming thing for 13 years now. One was remembering one of the best companies I ever worked for, [...]

I’m trying to my the Mrs. blog have the theme she wants with the features she wants. She was using a really ugly one because it let her collapse the things in the side bar.

The first thing I wanted to do and I wanted it for my blog too, was to make the archive by [...]

I’m learning the Ruby scripting language while learning Ruby on Rails. One of the constants of Ruby is that everything is an object.

I was just coding in Objective C and one of the cool things you can do is call a method on a nil object and it just returns nil. This is nice because [...]