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A web product startup playbook 19 Jul 2013 | 10:51 pm
I'm presenting "A web product playbook" at BohConf 2013 today. It's a distillation of what I'm considered the most important lessons I've learned during the past seven years of succeeding and failing ...
RailsGirlsBaltimore infographic 13 Mar 2013 | 06:49 pm
I really love this awesome infographic that Jess Gartner created for the recent RailsGirls Baltimore event, showing what we learned in organizing it and what the experience was like for everyone invol...
More ways to keep the American dream in America 21 Feb 2013 | 06:25 pm
I read Dave Troy's post Keeping the American Dream in America with interest. I agree with everything he says about needing to get aspiring entrepreneurs to focus on solving more important, technically...
Ignite Baltimore Proposals and Grants 1 Feb 2013 | 09:09 pm
We're now accepting proposals to speak at Ignite Baltimore #12 on 3/28, and one of my co-organizers, Neal Shaffer, wrote a comprehensive explanation of the kinds of talks we're looking for. Please con...
Invitation to RailsGirls 28 Jan 2013 | 09:12 pm
I'm helping organize RailsGirls Baltimore on 3/2 to introduce computer programming to girls and women in the Baltimore area. No prior experience is required! It's a fun day of learning new skills in a...
Rspec matchers for Sidekiq 24 Jan 2013 | 09:42 pm
I've been writing a lot of specs lately to make sure my code properly enqueues Sidekiq jobs. I ended up duplicating a lot of code, and after reading the Rspec custom matcher documentation, I decided t...
Thoughts on programming AdStaq's culture 21 Dec 2012 | 05:19 pm
We just posted the Careers page for my new startup, AdStaq.com. We're looking for smart developers of all backgrounds, junior and senior, who want to be part of the founding team. We're primarily look...
Ruby Dependencies, Notifications, and Adjustments 1 Nov 2012 | 05:28 pm
Note: I originally submitted this article as a draft to the Practicing Ruby online journal. Gregory liked my concept but ultimately ask if I would mind if he wrote his own version. He did an awesome j...
Setting up Puma & Rails on Heroku 31 Oct 2012 | 06:00 pm
I just moved Adstaq over to Puma this weekend because I want to experiment with a multithreaded server as a way to keep our web serving costs down and our efficiency high. We're already doing this wit...
Family calendar setup with Google Apps 22 Oct 2012 | 08:06 pm
A friend was recently admiring the calendaring setup my wife and I use to keep track of childcare and our professional schedules (so each of knows not to schedule something at a time when there's no c...
