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Author Archive

The Balance of Convention and Innovation

In which I post an enjoyable quote and some thoughts on standards versus innovation.

Getting A Grip on GridFS

In which I announce some tweaks I made to a fun plugin which makes storing files in GridFS as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Twizzle Your Deplizzles

In which I show how to easily update Twitter with deploy notices that include the environment and revision.

Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks

In which I divulge the awesomeness of MongoDB that we have used to build Harmony.

Config So Simple Your Mama Could Use It

In which I clog a bit of code for simple application configuration.

You’re An Idiot For Not Using Heroku

In which I discuss my first experience with Heroku and my second. And how awesome it is.

Know When to Fold ‘Em

In which I relinquish the day to day maintenance of a few of my projects.

More MongoMapper Awesomeness

In which I dish on the latest MongoMapper features like dirty attributes, time zone support, custom data types and dynamic finders.

Lookin’ on Up…To the East Side

In which I provide an enormous amount of examples to explain Ruby’s method lookup path.

MongoMapper Indy.rb Presentation

In which I post slides and audio from my last MongoDB presentation.

Patterns Are Not Scary: Method Missing Proxy

In which I show how to create a method missing proxy and provide some example uses in the wild.

Getting Started With MongoMapper and Rails

In which I show how to get up and running with MongoMapper and Rails in both text and video formats.