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If you own a restaurant that offers WiFi, it can be frustrating to have “customers” camp out at a table all day using the WiFi and buying little. As an owner, you can get mad. Or you can come up...

Raspberry Pi was the original low-cost single board computer. Competing products followed, including Beaglebone Black, Parallella, and recently, Orange Pi. The official Orange Pi instructions assume that the user is working on a Windows-based machine. This blog post shows how...

Thank You Organizers! First things first: Thank you to the RubyConf organizers for inviting me to the lightning talk stage this year. Slides and video appear below:

Why Jekyll? As software developers, we have a ton of stuff to learn. Our learning is reinforced when we share our learning with others. Blogging and presenting are two ways to share knowledge with our colleagues. Jekyll is a static...

Let’s talk about software and leave our past behind.~Juan Pablo Buritica Juan Pablo Buritica and his team from Ride organized RubyConf Colombia in Medellín this month. The organizers ran JSConf Colombia concurrently with the Ruby conference. What a feat of...

First rule of user research: Never ask anyone what they want.~Erika Hall, author of “Just Enough Research” It is popular to view entrepreneurs as risk takers. After 20+ years running WisdomGroup, I’m not sure that’s an accurate view. From what...