Brian Doll - emphatic solutions

emphatic solutions : ephemeral musings in the ether...

Brian Doll, Software/Systems Architect, San Francisco Bay Area, California

February 2010	» Rit. - The anti-CMS content scheduling system in Rails
February 2010	» The dangers of url_for in Rails applications
February 2010	» People, not process, is the soul of "agile"
December 2009	» My favorite books from 2009
December 2009	» Lean Software Engineering - My progression toward Kanban
November 2009	» has_many :through across multiple databases in Rails
October 2009	» Allowing multiple failed assertions per test
September 2009	» The rules of software deployment
May 2009	» Always a student
May 2009	» Is there such a thing as free automated user acceptance testing?
April 2009	» Golden Gate Ruby Conference
January 2009	» Clean Eating, How I make it work
December 2008	» Train to not suck at life
November 2008	» Quick and Easy - Cache RSS feeds in your Rails app
September 2008	» New gem - greatest_common_factor
September 2008	» Transparency, Responsibility, Accountability
September 2008	» statulo.us - how getting fit somehow still involves programming
August 2008	» New gem - rails_framework_diff
June 2008	» Deep Send
June 2008	» Things I learned at RailsConf 2008
May 2008	» Connecting to Oracle from Ruby on Rails
May 2008	» Supporting unique headers per SOAP request in soap4r
March 2008	» Quick Book Thoughts - The Back of the Napkin
March 2008	» Google Calendar Sync Doesn't
March 2008	» News traveling around the internets
January 2008	» Troubleshooting Tips
January 2008	» Quick Book Thoughts - Presentation Zen
December 2007	» ActionWebService on Rails 2
December 2007	» Blocks, Closures and The Ruby Way
November 2007	» Dancing with dynamic features in Ruby
October 2007	» Leaky abstractions, seepage of a dangerous kind
September 2007	» Testing - Static vs. Dynamic Typing
July 2007	» Drag and drop AppleScript to convert video
June 2007	» Software Engineering Book Recommendations
March 2007	» Passing by Value, Reference and somewhere in between

Brian Doll is a husband, father, thought worker, tree-hugging, music-loving, punk, atheist, non-conformist, optimist, Quality seeker. Here you'll find a mix of thoughts on fitness (Crossfit, Paleo foods), philosophy and programming (Ruby, Rails and other goodies).