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The key to fast tests is simple: don’t do slow things.

Here’s what I’ve got.

So… The JavaScript book that I had contracted to do with Pragmatic will no longer be published by them.

Everything I know about the world of fine dining I know from watching Top Chef and from eating at Five Guys. But I do know this: chefs have the concept of mise en place (which does not mean Mice In Place), which is the idea that everything the chef is...

If I don’t write about iOS editors every few months, then it’s harder for me to justify continuing to mess around with them…

This week I wound up trying to put together a sample “real-world” problem suitable for use in an automated web thing aimed at potential new hires. Of course, any actual “real-world” problem would be have too many extraneous details to make it suitable given the constraints of the web thing,...

I present to you two things that sound like they should be metaphors for project issues. Except for two things:

If I’m counting right, Ruby Midwest is my fifth conference this year, which is I guess one of the perks of having an employer that likes being involved in the community. It’s great – I like meeting all the smart people involved with Ruby, I learn things, and sometimes people...

I wasn’t going to write this, because it’s not like the Internet has a dearth of people writing about Steve Jobs who never knew him or interacted with him in any way. I wrote it anyway.