I came across a kickstarter recently, "Let's Code: Test Driven JavaScript." It looks like a great project from James Shore, but for those who want to play with TDD and JavaScript today, there are quite a few resources out there.Hold up, what's TDD?TDD stands for Test...

Believe it -- yesterday was my first technical talk in Philly, at the super friendly and supportive Philly.rb. After some awesome impromptu lightning talks on Event Machine/websockets and some discussion of what ! really does in Ruby, it was my turn. I prepare a lot before...

At my awesome employer, we recently had a Hack Day (or, per the company mascot, "Stampy Day"). Here's what it was, why it was fun, and why you should probably bring it to your company too. What's a Hack Day Hack Day is a day taken off from the regular run of the...

RUSSELL: No. I was raised with a very strong work ethic. I'm never out when I'm a teacher. I've always gone to work no matter what job I had. My parent raised me that, unless your hair was on fire, go to work, show up. The other thing is that even if you're having a bad...

My last post blew up far more than I expected, and I believe caused a very interesting discussion about culture, programming, and how we treat each other. I decided to wait a day to add a comment post about it. I had a lot of concerns about the title after it went viral...

I was at a Ruby user group meeting last night. The meetings are usually pretty chill. It's a supportive environment where people give talks on what they're working on, chat on what they find interesting, and put themselves out there. But here's what happened. Katz was...