One of my favorite activities is hiking. I'm fortunate to live close to a mountain where I can go for a hike any time I want - often early in the morning, before work.I love the trek over hills and valleys, through forests and streams, the creaking of trees in the wind, the rustling of leaves,...
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My last PHP app: How I Fell for Ruby
Last week I found a backup of the very last PHP app I ever wrote. The backup was from 2009, but the app itself was written in 2007 - 18 years ago!
Back then I was in my late teens and the world was (or at least felt) completely different. Out of nostalgia, I spent some time exploring the source...
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Building Twice: A clone of Once
When Campfire - the first Once product - came out, a few of us at Ruby Zagreb pitched in to buy a copy.
Prometheus had brought fire from Mount Olympus, and we came to see the blaze. We were finally seeing how the people at 37signals - the birthplace of Rails - build Rails apps. And as a bonus,...
