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My problem with Heroku

We've all been hearing a lot about Heroku lately. In fact, it seems that almost every rails blog has a post about how you "must use Heroku!' or you're an idiot to not using Heroku. Over the last month or so, I've been working on a project hosted on Heroku. Now this app has a lot of issues including code written by a billion developers that is often stupid or ...

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Jason Fried on the unproductive office

I have mixed feelings about TED, but I generally enjoy Jason Fried and his take on work is totally spot on. I'd only add that, in my experience, programmers work in cycles: ramp up, totally immersed, wind down, relax, start over. (more…)

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Rails is awesome … too bad the creater and much of the community are total dickwads.

In a moment of genuine unintended irony, I decided to start learning Rails at the exact moment that a huge uproar happened over a conference presentation that contained pornographic images and the following "don't hamper my freedom from expression/to look at naked chicks" response from much of the Rails community. Worse yet, DHH, creator of Rails and partner in 37 ...

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