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Twitter giving up on Ruby on Rails?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Techcrunch seems to think so…
Hmm, Seems like web 2.0’s “Gem” of a framework may not be all that the zealots what you to think it is.
[Via TechnologyThree]

What does Scrum look like to you?

We have been using what we called “Scrum” for a couple of years now and I am curious as to how other organizations implement it. For us it is basically a daily staff meeting that lasts 10 minutes and you say what you did the previous 24 hours and what you are doing in the [...]

Accessing Apache Running on Leopard with Parallels (Windows)

I work on an application that only works in IE 6+ so moving to the mac has required me to find a way to test the application. I have found that about 90% of it works in Safari (but not FF) but the remaining 10% is critical to access at some points for testing.
Because of [...]

VistaPrint needs some help

So I ordered some letterhead and envelopes from VistaPrint about 2 months ago. I know that they have really good quality and that there are some quirks to their system… such as there is ZERO QA when it comes to their printing and you basically have to get them to reprint your order if there [...]

LEFT OUTER JOIN will kill you! or “It’s the database, stupid”

I have been doing web programming for about 10 years now… wow it really has been 10 years… and I have worked on a LOT of applications. Large ones, small ones, medium ones. Ones that are screaming fast and ones that are slooooooooooooooooow.
Well lately I have been assigned to upkeep a 4 year old application [...]

It’s all about the interfaces baby!: When not to use Ajax

A thread was started in CF-Community about what websites are usefully implementing Web 2.0 technologies for the betterment of the UI. One that was mentioned was Netflix and the way that the UI responds to the user in a positive way.

One of the things we have to remember in UI development is that just because [...]

PHP to RoR and Back Again

Derek Sivers, the guy behind CDBaby.com has a great blog post about his move to RoR then back to PHP.
Blog Post Here
Here is the comment that I posted, I just wanted to share it with you guys:
I think that most people, from these comments, missed the point of this article. This was not a technical [...]

HOW-TO: Email Bounce Management

There was a recent thread on CF-Talk about bounce management for email newsletters and thought I should write a How-to on how I have done bounce management in the past. One of the things that I will start out with is that this takes a method that I feel is much cleaner but requires you [...]

What Gordon Ramsay taught me about Programming – Adam Howitt

Adam Howitt has a great post about "What Gordon Ramsay taught me about Programming". I LOVE Hell's Kitchen and literally, you can ask my wife, it is the only show I watch in the summer.
Adam has some great points that he talks about but this is one of my favorites:
Get the food out of [...]

Words of Wisdom: Twitter

the Twitter Blog has something posted that I thought was a nice in site.
"For stressed engineers, it's tempting to think that another solution - anything but what you're using now! - will solve all your problems. Maybe you start dreaming up the perfect framework on a whiteboard, or maybe you start scouring the web [...]

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