When You're Serving 10-60MM Requests Per Week...

(insert clever subtitle here)

Too Many Twitter Friends? Kill Stale Accounts.

because I'm just not that into you

I Can See Why Erlang Doesn't Seem To Care So Much About Regular Expressions

and it's not because his hammer is bigger than Perl's (the hammer is his penis)

How I Spent Friday From 3AM to 5AM

I consider it a lunch break?

Writing Conveyor Clients Using Bricklayer

because... aww hell if I know...

Determining If Your Script Was Executed Or Included

because Googling for this sucker threw me for a loop

Comparing Object Speed Versus... Object Speed

because "me too" articles are the stuff of life

I've Outsourced My Blog Comments to Facebook

because all the cool kids are doing it

The Accidental DSL, or, Why Ruby Is So Damn Great

because stupid examples can help people see the light

Being Stupid with Ioke

it won't win me the Darwin Awards, but it might bring me a step closer

Extending Your Models Using Custom Plugins, Or, A Brief Introduction to Metaprogramming

because NETTUTS thinks knowledge useful to every Rails developer in the world isn't right for a Rails tutorial, even though they only (basically) have one Rails tutorial, and it doesn't follow best practices or really show you how to be a good Ruby dev

Tweet Like a Sailor Day!

because some of [me] were too fat for the Navy

Random Saturday at Bucketworks

because models dressed as dolls are cool

So, Io is pretty cool

and by cool, I mean pretty freakin' okay

No Time Like the Present

jobless, but not homeless

Another Example of Mac OS X Winning

I like it when things work as expected

Microsoft Dumps Money on Vista Advertising, Development Division Suffers

More and More, I'm Liking Flex on Rails

Algorithms In Real Life

Woo! A Moving Ball!

reminds me of that space game we made in high school

Sweetcron - Surprisingly Sparse

and that's not a bad thing

Why Erlang Is My New Friend

besides pattern-matching, and the fact that he bakes me cookies

Cappuccino Released!

I can finally stop sacrificing small animals as a routine part of my web-app development process

Go Buy The Love Birds

Olena made it, and I'm promoting it here

Writing a Ruby Client for a RESTful Web Service using Bricklayer

shameless self-promotion for my newly authored code

Otis for the iPhone Officially Released

kill those pesky idle minutes with a new addiction

Introducing AutoApi - Part 2

more of me not working on kasumami

Freaky Dream

which I'll share, because it involves xkcd

Introducing AutoApi

what I wrote tonight instead of working on kasumami

Squarespace.com

Big Nerd Ranch: Take Two

because I chickened out last time

ActiveRecord for Objective-C

a dream come true?

ZOMGZ! Django is 1.0!

What's a Guy Got to Do to Work in Mobile?

New Project: MerbGigs.com

another project to occupy my non-existent time

Do Merb Slices Fulfill My Dream of a Django-like Ruby Framework?

good god, I think so

Hash Initializer

because I'm tired of rewriting the same three lines

Moving from Adjacency Finder to Ruby's Classifier

because the pros do it better

Why Ruby Continues to Rock

originally posted March 11, 2008 at masonbrowne.info

Google Interview Question

originally posted January 30, 2008 at masonbrowne.info

Back From New York, Amazon Web Services, New Vehicle, Asus Eee PC, Pownce

originally posted January 22, 2008 at masonbrowne.info

Pass Yer Blocks When Auto-Proxying in Ruby

originally posted January 09, 2008 at masonbrowne.info

Design Patterns in Ruby

originally posted December 31, 2007 at masonbrowne.info

ZOMGZ, Pownce is Down When I Need It Most

originally posted December 22, 2007 at masonbrowne.info

In Other (Old) News

originally posted December 20, 2007 at masonbrowne.info

The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right - First Impressions; Also, Rails vs Django

originally posted December 30, 2007 at masonbrowne.info

Rediscovering My Adjacency Finder

a bit of Ruby I hacked together one morning

Words I Will Be Remembered By

if he still remembers

The Website is Down

IT humor, had me rollin'

Converting a Decimal to an Arbitrary Base

... for fun and profit?

New Project: Quest for 15

gaining motivation by having an audience

Earth2100 Is Alive

hopefully our planet will be too, in 2100

Facebook's Contextual Advertising

It's gettin' there

Why Objective-J Will Change the Game of Web Development

or at least shake it up a bit

Backing Up Files to Amazon S3 with Rake

saving the world with Amazon services

Conditional Execution Between Rails and Merb

I like playing favorites

DRYing/Cleaning Up Your Code/Namespaces With 'using'

I like a tidy house (unless I'm actually living in it)

RailsConf 2008: Some Fuzed Notes

San Francisco: Geek Heaven

too bad I'm a social introvert

I Bought Groceries Online

can't do that in Montana

Two More Days

until total annihilation

Why heyPanda?

I'm a blatant plagiarist

Some Web Development Tips, In No Particular Order, With No Particular Count, and Of No Particular Importance

saving precious seconds of your life

Deploying CodeIgniter Projects to Dreamhost Using Capistrano

because some of us still live in a PHP world

The Art of Instruction, or, The Art of Learning, or, How Universities are Broken

Yay for RSS!

RSS = blogger narcissism

Learn Chinese

because they have us surrounded

June is for Coldplay

I like free shows...

Hey, It's Another Blog Thingy

Homegrown, baby