Where to find me in 2015
The first half of my conference-going year is starting to firm up, so I thought I’d briefly post about where you can find me this year, if you feel so inclined….
Two years of RubyTapas (free episode!)
It took a tweet from Noel Rappin to remind me, but it seems that today marks two years since the first episode of RubyTapas went live. I started RubyTapas with…
New book! Birthday sale!
TL;DR: New book project, The Rake Field Manual. Today only, buy early access to it at half-price ($12.50) with coupon code HAPPY0X22. Or get any of my other books and videos at half price with…
Typist Wanted
I love most aspects of making RubyTapas. I love the research, and the writing. I enjoy doing voice-over. I even like editing the video, at least some of the time….
Watch me build an app (one day sale!)
As I posted a few months ago, the good folks at TekPub recently took my hours of footage of a weekend coding project and turned it into a tightly edited…
Complete “Making of Cowsays.com” video now available from Tekpub
A long while back I gave myself a challenge: I was going to code up and launch a web app in a weekend. And I was going to narrate and…
Confident Ruby is Finished!
I am thrilled to announce that my book Confident Ruby is now finished. I even hit my target of releasing by September 1st… if by “September 1st” I had meant “of…
New book, and a huge birthday sale!
Two things: today I’m releasing a new book, and I’m having a great big one-day birthday sale. New book! First, the book. As you may know, I released a new gem recently…
Naught, a toolkit for building Null Object classes in Ruby
I just released a gem I’ve been working on for the last couple days. It’s called Naught and it’s intended to make it easy to build various kinds of Null…