Ben Scofield

Ben Scofield

… rarely updated

08 Oct 2009

Changing the default

I create (or at least start) a lot of microapplications – my "Ideas - Dev" list in Evernote is huge, and I try to pick off a new one every …
05 Oct 2009

Conferences suck

Disclaimer: I've said some of the things in this post, as have some of my friends, some of my acquaintances, and some people I don't like. …
01 Oct 2009

Follow-through

There's something very strange about the concept of follow-through. Ask a physicist, and they'll tell you that nothing you do with the club …
28 Sep 2009

Why should I register for your site?

Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. That's one of my favorite Einstein quotes. Unfortunately, it seems to be ignored more …
24 Sep 2009

My beef with panels

[[posterous-content:uleIIrdnzGuxAkFulgdg]] http://www.flickr.com/photos/betweenloveandlike/ CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I've been to a lot of events …
21 Sep 2009

Refreshing the Triangle

Triangle-area friends! If you're free this Thursday (September 24th), come on out to Bronto's offices for Refresh the Triangle. I'm going to …
18 Sep 2009

Application templates in Rails 3

Here's a trick for creating modular templates in Rails 3: use the apply method Say you like to use Rails templates, but you find them a …
16 Sep 2009

My workflow - now Cucumber-enhanced!

[[posterous-content:npromobotiplCJFzxDBp]]So I've been using Cucumber somewhat heavily for a while now, on both personal and client …