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  • Selfishness

    Nov 19, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in soft skills

    I see a worrying trend developing in the software industry.

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  • LastPass

    Nov 12, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in Tools I use

    This post is part of a periodic series about The Tools I Use.

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  • RubyMine and Vagrant

    Nov 5, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in RubyMine ruby tools vagrant

    On a recent episode of the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, Ben Orenstein said that when you’re learning something new, you should write the blog post you wish you could have read. This is one of those blog posts.

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  • Rogue Rails 2013

    Oct 29, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in agile conference rails

    This past week, I had the pleasure of attending the first ever Rogue Rails workshop and conference. As an added bonus, the event was held in the city where I live, which almost never happens. I live in a smaller city with a small but growing tech community, so it was really nice to have an event like this.

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  • Remote Work

    Oct 22, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in agile remote

    There’s been a lot of discussion about distributed teams and remote work lately. Earlier this year, there was a huge debate when Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer decided to ban telecommuting.

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  • Remember the Milk

    Oct 15, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in Tools I use

    This post is part of a periodic series about The Tools I Use.

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  • Ruby DCamp

    Oct 8, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in conference dcamp ruby

    I recently attended my first Ruby DCamp. I’d heard good things about the event from talking with Evan Light (the organizer), hearing Avdi Grimm talk about it on the Ruby Rogues podcast, and from reading Brandon Hays’ post about last year’s event.

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  • Configuration Blocks

    Oct 1, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in blocks ruby

    Many times in Ruby, it is useful to allow the creator of an object to configure it using a block. This is especially true when writing a domain-specific language (DSL).

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  • Followup: TDD and Ruby Scripts

    Sep 24, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in TDD ruby

    A few weeks ago, I asked for some advice about using TDD for Ruby replacements of bash scripts.

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  • Pocket

    Sep 17, 2013 • Randy Coulman • posted in Tools I use

    This post is part of a periodic series about The Tools I Use.

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