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David's blog posts are hosted at:
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April 29 2008
If a tweet is uttered with no followers, does it make a peep? I'm getting going with Twitter on http://twitter.com/d2h. read moreApril 29 2008
If a tweet is uttered with no followers, does it make a peep? I'm getting going with Twitter on http://twitter.com/d2h. read moreApril 22 2008
I had a great time on the West coast recently with stops in Santa Barbara and Palo Alto. What always surprises me at events like these is the huge number of people I meet that are doing cool things with Rails that I've never heard of. The kind of people… read moreApril 22 2008
I had a great time on the West coast recently with stops in Santa Barbara and Palo Alto. What always surprises me at events like these is the huge number of people I meet that are doing cool things with Rails that I've never heard of. The kind of people… read moreApril 11 2008
I'll be speaking at an event put on by AppFolio at 6:30PM on the 17th, at Paul Graham's Startup School on the 19th at around noon, and finally meeting up with some people from the SD Forum Ruby conference on the eve of the 19th. If you're at any of… read moreApril 11 2008
I'll be speaking at an event put on by "AppFolio":http://www.appfolio.com/ at 6:30PM on the 17th, at "Paul Graham's Startup School":http://startupschool.org/ on the 19th at around noon, and finally meeting up with some people from the SD Forum Ruby conference on "the eve of the 19th":http://latenightrubyromance.eventbrite.com/. If you're at any of… read moreApril 03 2008
I remember thinking how impressive the roll-out of Subversion was. They reached some magic point where the majority of the development world just flipped and most everyone who've previously been on CVS switched in what seemed like an overnight transition. Of course it didn't happen like that, but the perception… read moreApril 03 2008
I've been writing a little bit of PHP again today. That platform has really received an unfair reputation. For the small things I've been used it for lately, it's absolutely perfect. I love the fact that it's all just self-contained. That the language includes so many helpful functions in the… read moreApril 03 2008
I remember thinking how impressive the roll-out of Subversion was. They reached some magic point where the majority of the development world just flipped and most everyone who've previously been on CVS switched in what seemed like an overnight transition. Of course it didn't happen like that, but the perception… read moreApril 03 2008
I've been writing a little bit of PHP again today. That platform has really received an unfair reputation. For the small things I've been used it for lately, it's absolutely perfect. I love the fact that it's all just self-contained. That the language includes so many helpful functions in the… read moreJanuary 29 2008
Announcing RailsConf '08 today, I stopped to think about that by the time this conference rolls around, I will have been working on Ruby on Rails for five years. Wow. There are so many memories from this wild ride that it's at once both hard to fathom that it's been… read moreJanuary 29 2008
Announcing RailsConf '08 today, I stopped to think about that by the time this conference rolls around, I will have been working on Ruby on Rails for five years. Wow. There are so many memories from this wild ride that it's at once both hard to fathom that it's been… read moreJanuary 10 2008
Most Rails contributors are not big users of shared hosting and they tend to work on problems or enhancements that'll benefit their own usage of the framework. You don't have to have a degree in formal logic to deduce that work to improve life on shared hosting is not exactly… read moreJanuary 10 2008
Most Rails contributors are not big users of shared hosting and they tend to work on problems or enhancements that'll benefit their own usage of the framework. You don't have to have a degree in formal logic to deduce that work to improve life on shared hosting is not exactly… read moreDecember 31 2007
So I finally had a few spare moments to work on the Loud Thinking machine again. Instead of going with one of the million packages out there, I decided to eat some dog food and just roll my own. Yes, yes, terribly inefficient from a productivity perspective, but I indulged… read more
