Gaga, A Git-Backed Key/Value Store

Gaga originated from my winning entry in Codebrawl’s Key/Value Store contest. The challenge was to write the best key/value storage backend you can think of. Since Git is fast, reliable, and a great tool for storing source code, I was really interested in making an easy way to store key/values.

Print Stamps With Ruby!

I’ve just released Stamps - A Ruby gem for creating postage labels, calculate the shipping cost of packages, standardize domestic addresses via USPS CASS certified Address Matching Software, and track shipments using the Stamps.com Web Services API.

Easy Multiple Account Management for Heroku

Recently, I migrated all of my personal and business sites to Heroku. Heroku, as you may know, is a fantastic service for hosting ruby applications. Oh, and it’s free! Like a lot of folks, I keep work and personal items such as email, bank accounts, github, etc in separate accounts.

5 Ruby Gems for Concise Code

At Littlelines, we have to write a lot of code under strict time constraints. We work in small teams which means that writing clean and concise code is a necessity. When a Ruby library comes along that makes code easier to grasp in a hurry, test, and maintain - we use it. Here are some gems we have in our toolbox:

20 Clojure Links To Get You Up To Speed

Writing multi-threaded code is hard. If you’ve ever done concurrent programming, you’ll probably agree. Clojure offers a compelling alternative to traditional object-oriented approaches to programming and has garnered much attention from the Ruby community because of it’s elegant design that lets you get right to the essence of a problem.

Git blogging with Aerial

Over the last few years, I have grown tired of maintaining, migrating, and upgrading blog software, so I’ve decided to roll my own with Ruby code. In doing so, I wanted to keep things as simple as possible with a basic set of features: articles, pages, comments, rss, etc. What I didn’t want is a SQL database or an administration tool. I wanted to write articles in my text editor of choice (Emacs), in Markdown format, and versioned with Git.