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Patents are in the news in the tech circle more and more these days. As
trolls lurk under bridges and the portfolio cold war gets hotter and

A lot has been made in the talkosphere recently about the brewing
“multi-Ruby version manager” war, namely
RVM vs newcomer
rbenv. I’m not here to...

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the changes to Rails 3.1.
It started with an epic GitHub commit thread and the discussion exploded

Emacs vs Vim. iPhone vs Android. Of all of the nerd arguments, none hits
closer to home for Ruby developers than HAML vs ERB. Proponents of HAML

For a software developer there are essentially two paths to extremely
enviable positions of respect in the community: either you can be the
tech...

Companies have many ways to benefit from an open source culture. While
many arguments can be made about the philisophical implications of
choosing...

It’s hard to be “on” all the time as a developer. Despite its
engineering aspects, I find software development to be a fundamentally
creative act,...

There’s a problem in the software development world, a practice that breaks down the free and open exchange of information. This practice is...

In the past week I’ve jumped head-first into Android development for a new Intridea project. This is my first time doing any real Android...

I think that Android is a very important project that came along at just the right time. It has applications far beyond mobile handsets and we’ll...