Goodbye Dear Friend

On January 22, 2012 By Tyler

Tonight marks the passing of a computer that I’ve had for 10 years!

10 years ago there was a big schism in the RAM architecture world. And when I was building my machine I got caught in the middle of this debate. Should I go with DIMM or RIMM memory? What was better technology? At [...]

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Rake: Not Your Father’s Build Tool

On June 16, 2011 By Tyler

On Tuesday I was given the opportunity to give a presentation on rake at our Utah Valley ruby brigade.  I chose to cover some of the basic building blocks and comparative history of other build tools.

I was inspired by Martin Fowler’s Using the Rake Build Language and Josh Nichols presentation Rake: The [...]

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Do Not Delete This Post

On April 27, 2011 By Tyler

So I recently posted that I was working on collaboration with some other writers. I’ve decided to no longer be involved with the project for reasons kinda personal, so no dish unless you see me personally.

But I then thought, ohk do I revise history and remove the post? I’ve decided not to “play god” [...]

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