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So I didn’t finish what I thought I’d finish today, owing to the fact that some of my friends came over to visit me. Yay! But here’s a little teaser: Hold tight. It’ll be comin’ tomorrow.

Hey there! Did you find something you liked? Did something really help you? Do you feel the overwhelming urge to throw dollar bills at me? You’ve come to the right place! After some discussions with a few long-term readers and friends, I’ve decided that there’s not really any shame in creating a “tip jar,” considering […]

Dear readers, As you can see, Slash7 is almost back to its former beautiful glory. Once I write some custom liquid plugins for Mephisto to handle the rest of the sidebar, and customize some section templates, it’ll be all the way better… and perhaps even better than before. So you wanna be a convert… If […]

Gentle readers, I know I’ve been letting you down, but I’ve got a good excuse, I swear it! My life’s been pretty hectic lately; ever since just before OSCON, I’ve spent 2-3 weeks out of every four on location at my new workplace. (I changed jobs the week before OSCON, and you’ll notice there begun […]

I have two presentations at OSCON last Thursday, and as usual, I promised to post the slides. A little delayed, perhaps, but here they are. I recommend them in the order I list ’em… although there’s no audio to accompany it, you can still probably glean some good infos!

On Monday I gave a 3-hour tutorial first thing in the morning, here at O’Reilly OSCON 2006 in Portland. From the description: Even though AJAX wouldn’t ever have become so popular if the Javascript world hadn’t suddenly exploded with mature development and testing tools, there’s little information on how to be a really good Javascript […]

Ah, another non-geek-writing update. Alas! Between family issues, changing jobs, working on my OSCON tutorials and flat-out baking in the mid-summer heat… Oh, did I mention OSCON? I did not, before today, because I am a bad, bad blogger. I’ll be at OSCON next week, giving a Javascript tutorial and two regular sessions on user […]

You may think I’ve forgotten about the article I promised about tech writing, but I’m still chugging away. I spent quite a bit of time on it today, actually. It just keeps getting bigger. I’ve decided I have to split it into two parts: what’s wrong and why for part 1, and specific ideas for […]

Phew! RailsConf is over. It was awesome and exhausting—from the late nights in the crummy hotel “bar” and agonizing over lackluster wireless, to the random accordian music, hilarious jokes, and pick-up games of Mario Kart DS. I met so many great people I can’t even keep them straight in my memory. If we talked at […]