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When to use browserify-rails and when not to
My experience with Hired
Brother HL-2270DW and DD-WRT
Debricking the Netgear WNR3500L
Modular JavaScript
Modular JavaScript
Why I am excited about the health care insurance marketplace
The Importance of Exercise
Professionalism and Finances
Do I Have Too Much Experience to Become an Apprentice?
Low Cost ARM Computer
Software Craftsman Update
Dell Studio 15 versus MacBook Pro 15 Retina
Challenges finished, on to Craftsman
Challenges
Wrapping up the pairing tour
Prawn or wkhtmltopdf?
Pairing tour: Second day with Micah Martin
Pairing tour: Micah Martin
Pairing tour: Second day with Josh Cheek
Pairing tour: Josh Cheek
Fallback with Twitter Bootstrap Modals
Pairing tour: Brian
Pairing tour: Colin Jones
Performing the Refactoring Kata, pairing with Josh and the pairing tour
Day 92: Internal project and kata practice
Internal projects, another kata in progress and soon a pairing tour
Designing a bare bones CMS for ASP.NET MVC
Recent experiences pairing, using Amazon S3 with aws-s3 gem, another kata
Update on internal project
Day 65: A chance to try wkhtmltopdf to quickly create PDF files
Day 61: Another iteration meeting on the internal project, Patrick presents at 8LU
Day 60: syncation continues
Day 59: More work on syncing between internal projects
rspec: How to mock a method and return one or more the arguments to the mocked method
Day 58: Working on a Rails-based client site, thoughts on ideal backend for Backbone.js
Day 57: APIs and ruby gems
Easy CDN: Making use of Amazon CloudFront
Day 55 and 56: Wrapping up iteration for internal projects, presenting iteration
Day 54: Backbone routers, Backbone collections...
Day 53: Pairing
Day 52: More work on internal project split
An example of using jQuery UI Sortable on a Backbone.js collection view with item views
Day 51: More pairing on Backbone.js, Wai Lee presents his challenge at 8th Light University
Working at an Internet Service Provider
An experience with Amazon EC2
Day 49 and 50: Internal project goes plural and pairing
Day 48: Internal project work and pairing
Day 47, part two: Getting testing up to date on internal project with Backbone.js
What is an apprenticeship?
Day 47: Beginning to grok Backbone.js, more progress on catching up with testing...
Day 46: Performing the wordwrap kata at 8LU, two month apprenticeship retrospective with Doug
Day 45: Backbone.js, Mustache.js templates and Backbone.js Views
Using two Logitech keyboards simultaneously with unifying receivers
Day 43 and 44: More Backbone.js
An interesting detail for those coming to Backbone.js from direct DOM manipulation...
Day 42: More Backbone.js and Liskov Substitution Principle lecture by Uncle Bob
Day 41: Finish up the setup of the internal site on production server, more Backbone
Trying to game agile iterations from the developer viewpoint: dead end
Day 40: Deploying the internal application, trying out Backbone.js
Listening to clients with your brain
Day 39: When jQuery UI starts creating unmaintainable code where do we go next?
Day 38: Last minute cramming on the second iteration of the internal project
Day 37: An 8th Light University with Stephanie
Using gtk-recordMyDesktop for screencasting in Linux
Day 36: Screencast of me doing the wordwrap kata
Initial thoughts on Ruby on Rails compared to ASP.NET MVC
Day 35: More work on internal project, keeping up with the wordwrap kata
Day 34: Presenting internal project to Paul
Day 33: Internal project
Day 32: 8LU and audio-visual
Day 31: More work on HTTP server
Day 30: Progress on the wordwrap kata, HTTP server update and ...
Ubuntu 11.10: How to disable the orange blob resize horribleness
Day 28 and 29: Talked about the Liskov substitution principle, office network and ...
Leiningen and lein-localrepo: How to create local maven repository for jar files
The L in SOLID: Liskov substitution principle
Go: getting starting with the go_koans for the Go programming language
Clojure: using clojure/tools.cli to parse command line arguments
Day 27: Performing the word wrap kata
Leningin, uberjar and Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ...
Day 26: Decision to redo HTTP server, code katas
Day 25: Refactoring the HTTP server begins to pay off
Day 24: Refactoring clojure-http to make more testable
Day 23: Looking back at one month with 8th Light
Day 22: Attempting to retrofit testing
Day 21: Splitting up Clojure HTTP server into multiple namespaces, PUT, etc
Days 19 and 20: HTTP server in Clojure
Day 18: 8LU, the Interactor pattern and automapper
Day 17: Finished Clojure Koans, brought Joy of Clojure, got echo server running
Day 16: New project -- HTTP server in Clojure
Day 15: Starting the Clojure Koans
Day 14: Reviewed HTTP-based tic-tac-toe with Doug
Day 13: Working HTTP-based tic-tac-toe
Day 12: HTTP-based tic-tac-toe
Day 11: Review of tic-tac-toe and the next thing
Day 10: Getting tic-tac-toe ready for demo
Day 9: On site at a client, more work on tic-tac-toe
Day 8: 8LU, some Backbone.js and more Negamax
Day 7: Testing approach pays off
Day 6: Minimax to Negamax
Day 5: Minimax
Day 4: Progress on Tic-Tac-Toe in Ruby using Test-Driven Development
Day three at 8th Light
Second day at 8th Light
First day at 8th Light
Reading List for 8th Light Fellowship
Transition: Webitects to 8th Light
ASP.NET MVC and DropDownList: One approach...
SSL Certificates, OCSP and CRLs: How to troubleshoot
jQuery JCrop plugin, Chrome/Webkit: fails to initialize after the first attempt
SQL Server - Ranking names for search results by position of query within name
Mime types for ASP.NET
Idea: enhancing msdeploy with .skip, .skip-production, etc...
Yet another round on the ModelState PercentComplete() extension
Another round on the ModelState percentage complete calculator
When not to use AutoMapper
Updated percentage complete calculator for ASP.NET MVC
AutoMapper and Mapper.Reset()
ASP.NET MVC, ModelState and Simple Generic Percent Complete Helper Method
msdeploy - custom rules
Great SQL formatter
Quick PHP script to generate gem installation commands
SQL Server Express and Performance Tuning
ASP.NET MVC Route Registration and Areas
ASP.NET MVC for PHP Programmers
Attractive URLs on Database-driven Websites
ASP.NET MVC Overview in VWD 2010 Beta 2: Create a Movie Database Application in 15 Minutes with ASP.NET MVC (C#)
Getting started with ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 on Visual Web Developer (VWD) 2010 Express Beta 2
mediawiki-gsa-interwiki: Use GSA for search results in Mediawiki including Interwiki results
Prgmr.com Virtual Private Server
Notes on Windows 7, ArgyllCMS with Spyder2 Device
Debian testing, Xen and "Error: Boot loader didn't return any data!"
Reading Update
Published PHPGatewayInterface to github...
MythBuntu and Pinnacle 800i DVB card...
MediaWiki and Google Search Appliance (GSA)
Minimizing Windows Server 2003 CPU usage as a DomU
Xen and DomU Clone
Xen and Windows Server (2003)
Xen, LVM and DomU ext3 resizing...
MySQL and Round Robin Database (RRD)
Regular Expression Tools
William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition"
Xen with Debian Dom0 and Open Solaris DomU (Guest)
Shooting Yourself in the Foot with Perl
Abit Airpace and Windows Server 2008 64bit
Power Usage: Q6600, P53G, 2 GB RAM, WD 640 GB SATA, Antec 430w...
Linux - Securely redirecting console to virtual terminal for logging

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