Tag Archives: pontifications

The Five Megabyte Web Developer

Posted on 2011-11-27 by Ben Atkin

In the last couple of years I’ve witnessed a disturbing trend: developers adopting free Heroku as their only means of hosting side projects. More disturbingly, I operated this way myself for a couple of years. (Yes, freemium can be a … Continue reading →

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URLs worth caring about

Posted on 2010-06-04 by Ben Atkin

I like seeing URLs, whether in the link text or by hovering over a link. They are often truer to their content than what the person adding the link writes. I always have the status bar turned on in my … Continue reading →

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Recording Programming Sessions

Posted on 2009-06-08 by Ben Atkin

I got Screenflow and a Snowflake with the intent to make screencasts, but found another use for them, that might be more valuable. It started with me testing out my equipment. I wasn’t ready to do a scripted screencast, so … Continue reading →

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Rails Mnemonic: Scaffold Actions

Posted on 2009-03-22 by Ben Atkin

Over the last week I’ve been learning how to quickly develop simple applications in Rails without looking at API documentation. Each day I’ve been starting from scratch and seeing what I can create in an hour, only consulting documentation when … Continue reading →

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