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iPhone Tech Talk World Tour 2009, Hamburg

November 14, 2009

This Friday I attended the iPhone Tech Talk World Tour in Hamburg. Never having been to an Apple event before I carried some skepticism about the tech:hype ratio calibrated for the talks but in the end it was a rewarding day that proved long on information and short on hyperbole.

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Tools of the Trade 2009

October 13, 2009

Mike Gunderloy posted his annual roundup of development tools, prompting Ruby Inside’s Peter Cooper to issue a call for field reports from the rest of the Rubyist operatives out there. Here’s my contribution to this reasonable meme.

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Web Service API Design By Example

October 7, 2009

Developing for the web means, to a greater or lesser degree, being a productive citizen in a kingdom of online data exchange; and whether by formal design or organic, ad hoc growth, this means building an API.

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Activity Logs and Friend Feeds on Rails & pfeed

August 20, 2009

Friend networks and activity feeds are mainstay features of social media applications, and designing an implementation that won’t scar your code with the complexities of bidirectional logic and messaging queues is never easy.