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In the Pradipta 416
For what its worth, I was one of the Pradipta 416, a group of 416 recipients of an email seeking a Ruby on Rails developer. Trouble is, we weren’t BCCed, so it became a huge email thread and spawned a … Continue reading
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Follow the process?
I have been making my living for the last 20+ years following processes. Unfortunately, I have not seen that processes have been maintained, evaluated, and evolved as they should be. My theory is this: no one collects any metrics anymore, … Continue reading
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Advanced Rails Studio
advrailsdallas_5 Originally uploaded by pragdave. This past week I attended the Advanced Rails Studio in Dallas and had a fabulous time. The picture you see is from our lunch outside on Friday — I am in mid-gesture at the near … Continue reading
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GeoKit: Going International?
We have been asked whether GeoKit could be made to support UK addresses and this is something that we’re interested in doing. I must admit that I was incompletely uninformed as to how different these addresses really are. Just have … Continue reading
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GeoKit: More Syntactic Sugar
We just checked in code which improves the readability of GeoKit’s finders. Its quite obvious from the code, so just take a look at these examples: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … Continue reading
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GeoKit: Some Minor Feature Tweaks
In the last couple of days, I added a couple of minor feature tweaks. First, the finders will now all accept optional :units and :formula keys to enable you to override the units and formula used by the model by … Continue reading
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GeoKit Examples
On Friday when GeoKit was released, I wrote a pretty lame write-up. I am fixing that now with some live examples. I’m working on them as I write this, but you can check now or come back later. They are … Continue reading
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Asshole or Maverick?
I was amused recently when I read two of Guy Kawasaki’s recent book reviews. The two books reviewed are The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t and Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original … Continue reading
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