Have you ever used the Rails console? I’d love to see a show of hands (or comments, really). If not —boy, are you in for a treat. This article has something for everyone from beginners to experts. Learn, laugh, cry, and become a more effective Rails developer. Read the article
It’s so regular you could set your watch by it. The decay of a community is just as predictable as the decay of certain stable nuclear isotopes. As soon as an open source project, language, or what-have-you achieves a certain notoriety—its half-life, if you will—they swarm in, seemingly draining the very life out of the […]
Have you ever used the Rails console? I’d love to see a show of hands (or comments, really). If not—boy, are you in for a treat. The console lets you fiddle with parts of your Rails app—models especially—in a real-time environment, instead of waiting for page reloads and clicking on links and using object dumps […]
My friend Davey sent me an IM today about a thing (company? event?) called MacHeist. I’m sure he’s mentioned them before but honestly, I didn’t really pay attention… I’ve been way too busy to keep up on cool shareware lately. But this time around, I took notice because MacHeist is currently selling a $49 “super […]
I finally wrapped up part one of that series I’ve been promising. Finally. It’s long in coming and, well, it’s just really long. This article is the first of a three-part series on tech writing that has been knockin’ around in my brain for some time. I hope you like it. On with the show… […]
Previously, I’ve established that the reason Alex Bunardzic likes my writing doesn’t have anything to do with my gender. The real question, then, that Alex meant to ask is: “Why does so much tech writing suck? And why does some writing suck less?” They are genitalia-indifferent, these questions, and well they should be. I will […]
Hey there, pardner. I’ve posted a lot of goodies that you might want to download, mostly cheat sheets and slide stacks from my various talks I’ve given. This section will soon be more dynamic, and definitely purtier, when I can sneak in some template work into my incredible amounts of free time. I also have […]
It’s about that time again—time for another Slash7 interview, that is. My previous interview with Tobi Luetke was a great success, and many of you expressed an interest in further interviews. I hadn’t forgotten that, but it has been on the shelf. Until now, anyway. This time my interviewee is Marcel Molina, of 37signals, formerly […]
Hey folks, I’ve just moved slash7.com from my dear friend Davey’s colocated box, to a shiny new Planet Argon hosting account. This means that: Davey will no longer have to tolerate my complaining I will no longer have to complain to somebody who is hosting me purely out of the goodness of his own hearts […]
I probably should have spent the time today to fix the slash7 template, but my heart wasn’t in it. My heart was, on the other hand, in this: That’s a screenshot of the second page of my first-ever multi-page cheat sheet, RJS Demystified. RJS Demystified is actually an entire 3 pages long, all in achingly […]
