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possiblemat

188 karma · joined April 30, 2007

10 My life as a programmer began with GWBasic.

After an unfortunate journey taking me through the restricted lands of Pacal, Delphi, VB, Java, C++, C#, I finally discovered Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Going from not knowing Ruby to knowing Ruby was for me a revelation of roughly the same order of magnitude as discovering programming. I discovered Git at about the same time I started working with Ruby professionally, and had the same kind of revelation about source control. Needless to say, both tools are now the underpinnings of most of the things I undertake programmatically.

I can be observed in the wild, sometimes going under the name of webmat. I ramble about software development (web and mobile), life as a developer and open source tools at programblings.com. I am the author of git_remote_branch, a free and open source tool that helps mere mortals like me trivially manipulate git branches published in shared repositories.

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Do You Back Up Your DNS Records?

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Core competencies of great hackers

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Lord Palmerston on Programming

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Linux - Stop holding our kids back

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Git_remote_branch 0.3 released -- now works on multiple platforms

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Two Shoulda best practices (Ruby)

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This should_raise an exception (Ruby + Shoulda)

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Git global ignores

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VC Part 2: Fuck-off Money

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A tool to deal with git remote branches

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So I Quit My Day Job - Holy Cow I Took the Plunge

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An epiphany about Functional Programming and Lazy Evaluation

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