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- The Big Rewrite 27 Dec 2006
- The Unexpected Consequences of Consumerism 9 June 2009
- Dead-End Jobs: Are You Suffering From Stockholm Syndrome? 30 Dec 2010
- How Learning a Second Language Changed My Life 2 Aug 2009
- 23 travel tips to make long trips more enjoyable 10 Sep 2010
- Mar 7-10
- Pragmatic Rails Studio II
Santa Clara, CA - Mar 29-31
- Pragmatic Rails Studio
Reston, VA - Apr 1-2
- Ruby Nation
Reston, VA - Apr 6-8
- Scottish Ruby Conference
Edinburgh, Scotland - Apr 22-23
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Singapore - May 16-19
- RailsConf
Baltimore MD - May 28-29
- RubyConf India
Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Jun 16-18
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Gothenburg, Sweden - Sep 11-14
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Rome
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December 2011
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- A forum for The Passionate Programmer
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- Rails 3 Recipes needs tech reviewers!
- How Rails Developers do Ajax (with jQuery) in 2011
January 2011
December 2010
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- Imagine you're hit by a car
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August 2010
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November 2009
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- No More Projects
- Things I mentioned in my Ruby Nation presentation
- The Unexpected Consequences of Consumerism
May 2009
- The missing first words from The Passionate Programmer
- The Passionate Programmer at Ruby Nation
- Aloha on Rails
- What would you rather be doing?
April 2009
- The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
- RailsConf Speaker Interview: Mike Subelsky
- RailsConf Speaker Interview: Neal Ford and Paul Gross
- 20 Rails Development No-No's
March 2009
- RailsConf Speaker Interview: Michael Bleigh
- RailsConf Speaker Interview: Obie Fernandez
- RailsConf Speaker Interview: Charlie Nutter and Evan Phoenix
February 2009
December 2008
- Rails Studio in January
- Go Ahead and Complain
- Coding in Sonata Allegro Form
- Twenty More Days in 2008
- All Developers Should Be System Administrators
- Your Customers Aren't Idiots
- Develop a Good Habit in 20 Days
- The Awkward Structure of a Jazz Band Set
- Who Are Your Influences?
November 2008
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September 2008
- RubyConf Speaker Interview: Nathaniel Talbott
- RubyConf Speaker Interview: Micah Martin
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- RubyConf Speaker Interview: Greg Borenstein
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August 2008
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August 2007
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- The RubyConf proposal deadline is looming...
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July 2007
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May 2007
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- Changing the World
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- RubyConf 2007...the when and the where
April 2007
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February 2007
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January 2007
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- Tattle: The Ruby Census
- Dabble Plugin API
- Who's Tending the Store?
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- The Big Bang
December 2006
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- The Big Rewrite
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November 2006
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September 2006
August 2006
June 2006
May 2006
March 2006
- Rails 1.1: Selective Fixture Loading
- Rails Recipes Beta, Kickass Readers, and Another Pragmatic Jolt
- Gosling Thinks Ruby Just Generates Web Pages
- Rails Recipes Talk
February 2006
January 2006
- join(" ", map {"P" . $_ . "cast"} qw(erl od));
- The Virtues of Monkey Patching
- Fight The Traffic Keynote Presentation
- RailsConf CFP - Don't Miss The Chance
- Career Strategies for the Offshoring Era
December 2005
- The Perils of Choosing the Wrong Tool for the Job
- But Do I Have To Work?
- .NET Developer Seeks Shelter in Ruby on Rails
- Sys-Con Interview
November 2005
- On the Ruby on Rails Podcast
- Announcing RailsConf 2006
- On the Radio Tonight in Boston
- The Fear of Point C
- Not One Of 'Em
October 2005
- Part Of The Problem
- Fight The Traffic
- What If You Worked for Free?
- Buy It Now
- Is the Long Tail wagging the dog?
- It's been a very good year
- Big Is the New Small
- It's not just programmers
- RubyConf Face Book
- Remaining Relevant
September 2005
- How to pronounce Indian names
- My Job Went to India is Shipping
- CIOs Want Employees With Business Skills
- One Million Gems Served
- Tough Love
- Who's There?
- Pragmatic Companion
August 2005
- MJWTI: Andy Puts it On Wax
- Sixty Percent of American Workers Mediocre At Best
- RubyConf[:2005] > (RubyConf[:2004] * 2)
- Another "Love it or Leave It" Story (or 2)
- Love it Or Leave it
- My Job Went to India is "Done"
June 2005
May 2005
- Gambit CodeFest in Full Swing
- RubyGems HackFest Part 1
- RubyGems Article in The Rubyist
- The Cover Of My Book
- Hostile Environment for US Programmers
April 2005
- Fixing Tiger's Default Ruby Install
- The Wrong Story
- Rails Day
- Chicago Ruby Meet
- My Job Went to India
- Seattle Ruby Brigade
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
October 2004
August 2004
- Gem Watch
- Welcome Back CodePaste
- RubyGem of the Month - Rails
- Is Ruby Readable?
- The case of the stolen Powerbook
- Pragmatic Project Automation
June 2004
- Not Dumb Enough
- OSCON Early Bird Registration is Ending!
- RubyGem of the week - ruvi (was RVSH)
- Code Generation is New?
May 2004
- Benchmarking Considered Harmful
- Blame The Customers
- RubyGems 0.3.0 - What's new
- Don't Want--Don't Want--Climbing On My Head!
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
- Music of the 21st Century?
- Recognize not Regurgitate
- Pragmatic Prequel
- Ruby Conf 2003 - Austin
- Master of Software Arts
September 2003
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July 2003
- Hangin Out
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- Work or Play?
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- Future Rubyist?
- Next Generation Aggregators
June 2003
- TestDox for Ruby
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- Tivo for your mind
- Microsoft Search Boycott
- A Geek's First Computer
- Pairing With Yourself
- Code Kata: Visualization
May 2003
April 2003
- Back From Delhi and Agra
- Lucked into Linky
- "Practicing" vs. "Playing"
- Assumptions, Bowling, and Constraints
- Hundred Year Language
- Programming Language Evolution
- My Junk Collection
March 2003
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February 2003
- Happy Birthday Ruby
- "When bad men combine..."
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