Pragdave

A link on digg gets us to a page about Germany’s new  Water Bridge , an impressive aquaduct. So, today’s Thanksgiving dinner question: what ...

It was an intense three days, but it’s over! We just finished the very first  Rails Studio  in sunny (if chilly) Reston, VA. The s...

The  Ruby Extensions Project  contains an absolutely wonderful hack. Say you want to convert an array of strings to uppercase. You could wri...

Rick Wayne sent me a screenshot that blew me away, and I just couldn’t resist sharing :) (sorry about the quality: I cranked it down t...

As I speak about Ruby with folks around the world, a question comes up with depressing regularity: “is Ruby better than  Xyz ?”, where  Xyz ...

I give talks on Rails and Ruby to Java developers on average once every two weeks. I’ve probably spoken to thousands of folks over the last ...

Mike Clark’s been posting some interesting views of CruiseControl build statistics ( here  and  here ). These are cool pictures, and I suspe...