A friend of mine had a top list for 2010 and thought that was a pretty cool thing to do. Stealing from him and focusing on my most entertaining stories has led to a top list of fatherhood knowledge: 1. Learn your kid's cues Yes, it sounds vague, c...
Developer estimates
In the agile methodology, developers provide estimates on features. Features must provide business value,be small enough to put into a sprint (or work iteration), and have enough definition to provide an estimation for. If a feature is too big for...
Running shell scripts in Ruby
In transitioning an application from java/jsp/oracle to ruby/postygresql, there are still some java processes I'd like to keep (or rather due to time constraints not re-write). So I needed a way to call the java processes from Ruby upon user-compl...
Ctrl Alt Dad 