December 2005
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Leaving business in the office
I’ve always had a hard time separating work and home. The problem with being paid to think is that you don’t need your tools in front of you to keep working; you have your brain, you’re good to go. The problem comes in where you can’t stop thinking about a particular difficulty in your job.
I attended Mike’s 30th birthday party on Friday, but was completely unable to get a problem out of my...
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Built-in XSS protection in rails will confuse you
If you do rails development of multiple applications simultaneously on a machine that you access with one hostname – but using different ports for the different applications – you might end up with a problem.
The problem will be that you’ll have a cookie set in your browser which ties you into a session for one of the applications, and then you’ll try to hit the second application, and you’ll...
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We're not an insurance company
“thoughtbot, this is Jon.”—“Hi, do you guys do fixed annuities?”
We get it all the time. Less so, now, but we used to get calls asking about insurance a lot. Our number used to belong to an insurance company, I suppose, and apparently made the rounds so that it’s still findable via whatever means people use to find insurance companies (some people use things other than Google (shudder)).
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Wasting Less Time
As you’ve might have noticed from our announcement on the thoughtbot home page we’ve recently made the decision that we will be standardizing on 2 development languages going forward.
In this post I think I’ll focus more on the business angle of this decision.
We felt strongly, after coming to the conclusion time and time again, that we were simply wasting time programming web applications...