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Conway's Game of Life is a mainstay in Hacker culture. Here I'll go in depth about it's rules and my implementation.

Hello everyone, I'm back. Here to share a neat piece of code with you. It isn't very practical but it illustrates how easy it is to use Omniauth

If you've had any experience with Unix operating systems you undoubtedly know the value of a good man page. Here I'll show you how to incorporate man pages into your work flow and maybe even author your own.

I like many of you have often idly wondered about the inner workings of Ruby. This time I wanted to see if I was correct. Here I'll show whether single quoted strings or double quoted strings are faster in 1.9.

In this screencast I'll give you a brief introduction to the Logging framework. It's a popular logging tool that allows for greater transparency in your applications.

It's Friday and this week has been fraught with complicated bugs. Here I share a method I found useful while trying to hack through these issues.

Here I'll show you how to integrate google's url shortening service, and Twitter's tweet button to help make your site's tweet a little more friendly.

In my last article I spoke about Pry. Here I'll walk you through how to customize your Pry session.

Pry is an amazing tool for code exploration, and a great addition to your utility belt. Here I'll highlight a few of the reasons why I think Pry is worth your time.

RVM is the reigning champion of Ruby versioning. Here I take a look at rbenv and how it pairs with RVM.

Here I walk you through my attempt at finding the increase (or decrease) in performance from ruby 1.9.2-p290 to 1.9.3-preview1 garbage collection. I use GC profiler which is a wonderful tool, and some hacks to print a nice little graph. Check it out.

The hough transform is an algorithm used to detect edges/objects in an image. I recently needed to use it to straighten an image so that I could process it. Here is the (imperfect) solution me and my brother hacked out today.

HIPAA 5010 can be quite overwhelming at first. The complexity the X12 people have fit into a simple flat file consisting a string separated by tildes is very impressive. However, now you have hippo. A DSL to create and read transactions sets in pure ruby!

The concept is familiar to most programmers. Put simply it is bringing data and the methods that operate on it together under a single namespace. This article will showcase a few ways to encapsulate data in javascript. Specifically we will create a constructor class, and a module.