Pointy-haired Geek

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The last release of the Firebird Ruby extension fb for Windows was 0.5.3. Back then, binary gems seemed to be more common than they are toda...

Conventional wisdom has it you shouldn't store models in your Rails sessions. Conventional wisdom is right: Marshalling complex objects ...

The symptom: Connections to the Firebird database on my MacBook Pro were taking 20 seconds. Every time. It wasn't always thus. It didn...

A few days ago, we released our second iPhone application, titled FitTimer . It helps you get the most out of the time you spend in the gym...

I've been remiss in not mentioning that my first iPhone app has finally appeared in the App Store . iChessClock is a simple and attra...

Great article by Clay Shirky. I avoided Twitter for a long time, thinking it was the level of hell below Facebook . I gave it a second...