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Yesterday, I was honored to speak at WordCamp Portland about using Source Control systems with WordPress. The talk was meant as little more than a 10,000 ft view of some of the reasons you might want to consider using source control, and some of the possibilities that it presents. As always, the 10,000 foot view [...]

I love Github. Like tomato sandwiches, Celtic music, beer, and programming- Github is something that, try as I might, I just can’t make myself sick of.1 Recently, I took the Git survey, and it contained an interesting question along the lines of “What do you use Git for?” The answers were things like “configuration files” [...]

This weekend, during my wife’s birthday celebrations, I talked with someone about my recent programming exploits, including how much fun I’m having programming web applications in Ruby on Rails. The response: “Sure, Ruby’s fun, but it’s not really useful. It’s a cute scripting language, but it can’t scale.” Until recently, this was an opinion that [...]

I’ve been turned on to JetBrains’ RubyMine quite a bit lately. Despite my affinity for more “old school” development environments like Emacs (which I used for many years in my former development life), I’ve really been enjoying working with RubyMine. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s winning my most recent “Screw this IDE crap, I’m [...]

Pivotal Tracker does one thing: It Rocks. Last year when Morgan introduced me to this agile project management system, I was blown away. It’s a testament to the philosophy of “Do one single thing, and do it really freakin’ well.” Now, they’ve gotten better with the release of version 3 of their API: This Pivotal [...]