SOAP is sort of a despised thing in the Ruby world. I bought the Rails SOA book  and in the foreword by Obie Fernandez it basically says "Yea, SOAP ain't in here". And I get it. SOAP sucks. However, we don't always get to choose the...

Last night I had a good conversation with my friend Oz (@sadproz and Arthustler) about ideas and realizing what professional means. In the past couple of years, I have started to think more into this idea of software craftsmanship . Now, thats a...

So today, I went to work on doing some Multi Table Inheritance in Rails. I've had experience with this from my days with Hibernate on Java. The 'standard' Rails Way seems to usually revolve around Single Table Inheritance,...

So I've ditched all my previous blogging, and moved to Heroku and set up Refinery. Before, I was just using something turnkey like Wordpress, but that was not as awesome as it could have been, and I'll tell you why.

Wordpress gives you all you...