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A Child is Born (again)

over 5 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
My second child (and son), Jamis Peter Williams, was born at 8:46pm MST yesterday, the 11th of September. We’re tired, and excited, and happy...

RSpecfully, I disagree

almost 2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
RSpec has a very, very strong following in the Ruby community, and for a lot of good reasons. It's fairly easy to use once you grok it, it's a DSL (thereby...

Constrain Yourself

almost 2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
I've been traveling a lot lately. After wrapping up two very successful weeks in the U.K. -- a fun trip to Edinburgh, where I spoke at the Scottish Ruby...

Checking Executables with Spex

almost 2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
If you've ever built (or configured) tools for system administration, you know the frustration of not being able to easily verify the effects of running...

A bandaid for Rcov on Ruby 1.9

almost 2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
If you're running into issues with this encoding-related error using RCov 0.9.8 & Ruby 1.9.X: [plain] in `block in is_code?': invalid byte sequence in...

Speaking at DevNation Portland

over 1 year ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
Just a quick note -- a rare spike of activity in my [sadly] dwindling ability to write anything on my blog... I'll be speaking at DevNation Portland on...

Riak: A friendly key/value store for the web

over 1 year ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
A few days ago I had the opportunity to speak at DevNation Portland on Riak -- a fun NoSQL system I've become interested in lately. Here are my slidesNot...

Riak: A friendly key/value store for the web

over 1 year ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
A few days ago I had the opportunity to speak at DevNation Portland on Riak — a fun NoSQL system I’ve become interested in lately. Here are my slides from...

Speaking at DevNation Portland

over 1 year ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
Just a quick note — a rare spike of activity in my [sadly] dwindling ability to write anything on my blog… I’ll be speaking at DevNation Portland on July...

A bandaid for Rcov on Ruby 1.9

almost 2 years ago by Bruce Williams on Codefluency.
If you’re running into issues with this encoding-related error using RCov 0.9.8 & Ruby 1.9.X: in `block in is_code?': invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII...