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We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. We don’t have to do anything. It just works.   ~Elon Musk Elon Musk shared some interesting thoughts during the April 30th announcement for Tesla Energy. Two charts...

Hi, I’m Warren. He’s Charlie. He can hear, I can see. We work well together.   ~Warren Buffett,at the start of the 2015Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting Berkshire Hathaway held its 50th annual shareholder meeting on May 2, 2015. The company...

Debugging is a fact of life when building apps with Rails or any other set of tools. All troubleshooting is easier when we can see what’s going on inside. pgcli is a command line tool that lets devs examine PostgreSQL...

When smart people challenge each other to grow, great things happen.   ~The ChicagoRuby Motto If you’re a developer itchin’ to ramp up your Ruby skills, Chicago is a great place to be. The local Ruby user group, ChicagoRuby, continues...

The Amazon Dash Button is for customers who crave instant gratification. We might think of Dash as a brilliant blend of the Staples Easy Button, WiFi, and Amazon’s existing database of credit card numbers.

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a framework that breaks the learning process into stages. According to Bloom, learning begins with rote memorization and the process progresses upward until we can apply what we’ve learned in creative new ways. Youthful Bias Most of...