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And the greatest of these is laziness

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
The three virtues of excellent programmers are well-known - laziness, impatience, and hubris. Last night, I had an epiphany related to the first of these...

A year in the life of a Rails freelancer

almost 4 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Many moons ago I wrote a quick status report on my first 100 days of Rails consulting. Now that it has been over a year since I joined the freelance world...

Say hello to my little friend

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Or, more precisely, my new daughter. After a rough labor and unplanned c-section, Morgan Dawn Scofield joined the world on Saturday, March 22nd at 2:59...

EC2 just got 10x better

almost 4 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Now Amazon’s EC2 supports static IP addresses that can be pointed at any of your instances on the fly. This is cool....

A little less lazy for me, a little more for you

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
What with the new baby and all, finding time for coding has been a little tricky. Nevertheless, I have eked out a few moments here and there to continue...

VigetHub

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
I’m excited to say that Viget’s open source participation is being bumped up a notch; last night, I created a new GitHub account for the company, where...

Railsconf’s coming

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
And the session schedule has been posted. Looks like some really good talks this year - and it also appears that my talk is up against Scaling Rails on...

Preview talk done!

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Been a little quiet around here lately; that’s in large part due to Morgan, but it’s also been a busy few weeks Rails-wise. Besides finishing up the...

The shirt that will never be

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Inspired by this:...

Deploying New Relic Server Monitoring with Chef

~1 month ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
This morning I deployed New Relic's new Server Monitoring feature for the first time (I've used Scout previously). It's cool to see your server vitals right...