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These photos were taken in 1972 or ‘73 with an old Polaroid camera. During a family road trip, my parents arranged a visit to Muhammad Ali’s training camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania. Dad was a big boxing fan. Mom… tolerated...

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.