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Jekyll is a static HTML generator for web sites that don’t require a content management system (CMS). Jekyll sites load quickly, especially when combined with GitHub Pages. Bobby Reyes and I will present Jekyll at ChicagoRuby: 1871 on Thursday, June...

Are you driven to excel? Do you see yourself here? You have already built a successful Rails app. Now that you’re “done”, you know you can make it better, but you’re not sure how. You want to take your skills...

  What is the toughest obstacle you have ever faced in business, and how did you deal with it? ~Student at Trinity High School River Forest, IL, USA   Trinity High School invited me to speak to two of their student groups...

Supercomputer.io is the first technical conference for Parallella, to be held May 30, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. You can participate even if you’re not in Tokyo. Parallella owners around the world will connect their boards via the Internet to create...

Things that get you fired when you’re young are the same things you win awards for when you’re old. You have to be courageous about your ideas. When you come up with something good, that means it’s different from what...

Good is the enemy of great. If a company faces dire circumstances, managers must change because the alternative is death. But if circumstances are good (or even okay) managers can coast along indefinitely. A good company can be lulled into...