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TechKnow Year In Review 2009

It is that time of year where we reflect on the accomplishments of the passing year and look forward to the one to come. Here is a window into the past year in technology through this year’s popular posts on TechKnow Juixe.
Top Favorites

Laws of Source Code and Software Development
Repetative Recursion
Technology and Politics
Being a Better Rails [...]

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Quotable DHH 2009

David Heinemeier Hansson, commonly referred as DHH, is a polarizing programmer with a self professed fucking potty-mouth. He is opinionated and uncensored. He is a world renowned hater, he hates big enterprise software, large startup valuations, and apple pie. The web development framework he fashioned after himself is as opinionated and know-it-all [...]

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Favorite Programming Quotes 2009

When I am not coding I am reading about code. Here is a short list of memerable programming quotes I read over the past year about the science and art of software development. Over this last year, my interest and reading habits have been related to software development, team leadership, and entrepreneurship and this [...]

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Download Twitter Profile Images Using Ruby

Recently, I gave myself the small task of going through all my Twitter retries and downloading each profile image from each Twitter user that replied to me. To access my Twitter replies I used the Twitter Ruby Gem. I am using Twitter gem version 0.4.1.
The script is small and pretty concise that it [...]

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Jamming with Ruby YAML

When working with Ruby, the library/class I use and abuse most often is YAML. YAML stands for YAML Ain’t Markup Language and it is a versatile human friendly data serialization format. It is easier to use and understand than JSON.
A YAML file is much like a Java properties file in that is used [...]

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The Rubyist: September 2009 Edition

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of September 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog.
Ruby

Ruby apps development readied for Android
Announcing RuDy: write Ruby native extensions in D programming language
21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
Convert Ruby to JavaScript
REE: [...]

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