Blog Posts
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17 Jul 2010Making Thinking Sphinx Fast in Development Mode
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06 Jul 2010An Inkling
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20 May 2010Future of Web Design Notes
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27 Apr 2010My Desktop is Boring
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06 Apr 2010JsChat and Ico Updates
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31 Mar 2010The Secret of Popular Blogs
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24 Feb 2010Your Boss/Client's Guide to iPhone Interfaces
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18 Feb 2010Massive Attack
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21 Jan 2010DailyJS
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16 Jan 2010Smartphone Security Flaws / Nexus One Review
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12 Nov 2009iPhone Tech Talks: A Great Success
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04 Nov 2009Riotjs: A JavaScript Unit Testing Framework
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29 Oct 2009Running a Web Business in the UK
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26 Oct 2009Riot: Ruby Unit Testing
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22 Oct 2009Fear and Loathing in JavaScript DSLs
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19 Oct 2009BBC Glow: Overview and Example
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09 Oct 2009Gemcutter
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16 Sep 2009Deployment: Diffs and Dependencies
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21 Aug 2009The End of Religious Wars
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20 Aug 2009What Makes You Happy?
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12 Aug 2009Agile Deployment: Unified Repository
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03 Aug 2009Quickly Load Rails Projects
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31 Jul 2009A Rails Plugin for Tokyo Dystopia
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28 Jul 2009Vlad Debugging and Solutions
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27 Jul 2009Agile Deployment: Taxonomy
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16 Jul 2009Agile Deployment: Checklist
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13 Jul 2009Agile Deployment
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09 Jul 2009Using Jekyll
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03 Jul 2009Rapid Rails: Boot Up Time
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02 Jul 2009Rapid Rails: Mastering Indexes
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23 Jun 2009iPhone 3.0 Development Glitches
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02 Jun 2009Experiences Releasing an Open Source Project
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15 May 2009Intuitive Code
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01 May 2009Future of Web Design Notes
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28 Apr 2009Ryan Singer Workshop
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21 Apr 2009Deadline for Mac (and GitHub Hooks)
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15 Apr 2009Secure Trading Rails Plugin
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10 Apr 2009Beautiful Algorithms
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09 Apr 2009Let's Make a Game: Snake
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06 Apr 2009GitLondon: Event Review and Notes
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02 Apr 2009Open Map Technology
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11 Mar 2009Hack the Tube
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10 Mar 2009The Rosetta Stone of iPhone UI Development
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08 Mar 2009Rewired State Project: StateAware
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06 Mar 2009Getting Started with iPhone Development
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04 Mar 2009Mini App: TweetFu
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03 Mar 2009Vim Stuff
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09 Feb 2009MoloPix
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04 Feb 2009Google's a Glutton for It
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03 Feb 2009What Hosted Blogging Should Look Like
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02 Feb 2009Cross-Browser Testing: Follow-up
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30 Jan 2009What Cross-Browser Testing Could Look Like
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29 Jan 2009New Project: Quite Useful
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21 Jan 2009Ico: SVG Graphs with Prototype and Raphael
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04 Jan 2009SMS/Web Apps and Rapid Fluid Support
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24 Nov 2008LittleBigPlanet Level Design Tips
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13 Nov 2008Rails Doesn't Crash a Lot
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08 Nov 2008Deadline
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15 Oct 2008FOWA 08: Social Notes and Observations
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14 Oct 2008FOWA 08: Day 2 Talks
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13 Oct 2008FOWA 08: Day 1 Talks
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08 Oct 2008Captor: A Capistrano GUI
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03 Oct 2008Top 5 uses for Capistrano
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25 Sep 2008Building a Single-Sign-On System in Rails
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22 Sep 2008Dynamic Rails Error Help
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11 Sep 2008Guerrilla Software Marketing Strategies
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08 Sep 2008Analytics with Capistrano
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27 Jun 2008Rails Tutorial Part 1
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10 Jun 2008We Need to Talk
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28 May 20085 Great Mac Tools for Programmers
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21 Apr 2008Rapid Rails Part 3: Desktop Mastery
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01 Apr 2008Rapid Rails Part 2: Rapid Literally
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27 Mar 2008Rapid Rails Part 1: Command Line Mastery
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04 Feb 2008Some Ruby on Rails Plugin Stats
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04 Feb 2008Rails Plugin Testing Guide
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18 Jan 2008Start Using Test Driven Development Today
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08 Jan 200810 Essential Ruby Gems
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16 Jun 2007A Taxonomy of Rails Plugins
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29 May 2007Constants are Changing
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18 May 2007Session Encapsulation
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15 Apr 2007Tools for Tests (JavaScript Edition)
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09 Apr 2007Tools for Tests
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28 Mar 2007Push Back Explored
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07 Mar 2007Rails Quality Control Tip: Use Verify in Controllers
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06 Mar 2007Rails Speed Tip: link_tag Caching
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05 Jan 2007Hpricot Google Search Snippet
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23 Dec 2006Dashboard Widgets are Great with Prototype
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30 Nov 2006Server-Sent Events in Opera
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23 Nov 2006Easy Zip Compression in Ruby
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10 Nov 2006Load Your .vimrc with Helipad
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27 Oct 2006Easy Mac Applications with Camping
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22 Oct 2006Vim for TextMate Fans
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16 Oct 2006Rails Time Saving Tips
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06 Sep 2006Mac-friendly Terminal Cheat Sheet
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06 Aug 2006Textile JavaScript Class
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01 Aug 2006Dismantling Browser Ajax Handling
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02 Jul 2006Backpack Automator Plugin
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31 May 2006Using APIs: Don't Forget About RSS and Atom Feeds
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04 May 2006Getting Started with Rails Optimisation
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21 Apr 2006RSI
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05 Apr 2006PHP 5's Anonymous Functions
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28 Feb 2006What you Absolutely Must Know About TextMate
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24 Jan 2006Knowing JavaScript
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13 Jan 2006The Ajax and JavaScript Magic Behind Apple's New iDisk
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21 Dec 2005JavaScript Function to Help with Accesskeys
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16 Dec 2005Google Home API Security
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15 Dec 2005Google Home Module
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10 Dec 2005script.aculo.us: When to Use Ajax and Effects
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09 Dec 2005Carson Workshops: Get Started Using Ajax By Thomas Fuchs
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29 Nov 2005Single-table Inheritance and validates_as_unique
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18 Nov 2005Javascript Mini Bibliography
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19 Oct 2004Using XSLT with Bad HTML
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07 Oct 2004Processing Textile Text with XSLT
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02 Aug 2004Internationalisation with XSLT
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16 Jul 2004Processessing Multiple XML Files with XSLT in PHP
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Work
Ruby on Rails web applications I've created at Helicoid:
Free notes app that includes Mac and iPhone clients
Reminders through email, SMS, IM, plus iPhone app
Helpdesk and issue tracking
Time tracking
Tools for translators
Public iPhone and Mac apps:
Notepad app (App Store Link, Mac)
Reminder app (App Store Link, Mac)
Freelance project for Double Jump Media (App Store Link)
- → For more visit my work page
Open Source Projects
- Real-time chat protocol with web and console clients
- A simple JavaScript graph library inspired by Stephen Few's books
- → For more visit github/alexyoung
Writing
- A popular JavaScript programming blog


