What Is So Great About Ruby?
I had a bit of a meltdown on Twitter the other day… well, it wasn’t really a meltdown, it was just frustration. Frustration with C# and desperately wanting a language which allows me to work without a...
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You Really Should Be Using NuGet
If you get one thing out of this post, I want it to be that you need to help spread the word on NuGet. If you are currently using Visual Studio 2010, you have a very powerful package manager at your...
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Examples of Digital Transformation
In my last post, I submitted my simple definition of digital transformation: “Digital transformation is the change to a digital-first approach that improves the experience of doing business for...
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Takeaways From RailsConf
At Simple Thread, Rails is our favorite framework for building web applications. Even after all these years, we still think it is the most productive framework out there for building awesome web...
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RailsConf 2018 – Top 10 Favorite Talks
Videos of RailsConf 2018 went up last week on Confreaks. When our team got back from RailsConf, we all made notes of our favorite talks, which I’ve summarized below. Note: These are not necessarily the...
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React Native Vs. Real Native — Which Should I Choose?
One of the best parts of my job is getting to listen to people with ideas on how to make something in their world better. Whether that idea is to build a disruptive new product or to digitally...
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Takeaways from All Things Open 2018
Back in October, Simple Thread attended one of the most underrated software conferences in the US; the quickly exploding All Things Open in Raleigh. This two and a half day event has over 20 tracks,...
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Your Text Editor Plugins Belong in a Lock File
I just updated all of your text editor plugins. What’s your reaction? Something like this? It’s been years since you’ve updated all those plugins, hasn’t it? Who cares about those new features, bug...
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Harnessing the Power of the Overmind
Way back when I began writing Rails applications, a simple rails server command was usually sufficient for bringing my whole local development environment online. However, with the advent of background...
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Chaos Order – Randomizing Queries to Uncover Order-Dependency
Given this table, which row will the following query return? SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 1; First one? Last one? Dig in your RDBMS documentation long enough and you’ll find a statement like this… “If...
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