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What was that idea again?

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
While engaging in another one of our deep philosophical conversations in #caboose, the topic of remembering that great idea that we had before we fell asleep...

Spec Your Views

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I meant to work on this post… oh about 7 months ago. Way back in January (7 months ago), Jamis Buck posted an article titled, Testing your views...

Designers, Developers, and the x_ Factor

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Our team is lucky enough to be in a position where we have both designers AND developers working on the same code base in parallel. Since Ruby on Rails...

89 gmail invites available!

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
While everyone else is trading their pownce and skitch invites, I wanted to let everyone know that I still have 89 gmail invites available. Post...

YSlow and Rails performance: Getting UJS and AssetPackager to play nice

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Yesterday, I started to dig deeper into YSlow and decided to pick an application that we recently launched for a client. The performance grade that I saw...

Rails Code Audit Tips - Filtered Parameter Logging

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
It’s been a month since I posted, Audit Your Rails Development Team and now I find myself sitting in a hotel room in Mankato, Minnesota with Graeme...

RubyURL 2.0 on the horizon

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
RubyURL was a project that I built about 2 1/2 years ago as a late night attempt to see what I could build and deploy with Ruby on Rails in a night. It...

Airplane customers prefer bland food...?

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Earlier today, I was booking flights for Graeme and myself as we’re heading to Minnesota soon to visit one of our clients. While purchasing the tickets...

One ID to rule them all

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I finally decided to put my claimID to use today with the announcement that Basecamp now supports openID. This means that I can easily access all of my...

Berkun introduces ADD

over 4 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Author of The Art of Project Management, Scott Berkun, introduces Asshole Driven development. “Asshole Driven development (ADD) – Any...