http://getsoundboard.com Me and Jon are finally at the stage where we can start showing off our idea called SoundBoard, which was conceived and well received at a hackathon last weekend. After talking about it with several great people at TEDxUChicago, we feel the need...

Me and Jonathan Chan (@jonishungry) had quite the adventure last weekend. Managing a two hour El ride; being completely lost on the UChicago campus; sleeping in a tiny student government office since the venue wasn't 24/7 (graciously provided by @hackuc); discovering...

I had a scheme, which I still use today when somebody is explaining something that I'm trying to understand: I keep making up examples. For instance, the mathematicians would come in with a terrific theorem, and they're all excited. As they're telling me the conditions...

Introducing Rocketship: a Rack based template that integrates multiple micro-frameworks. github.com/gnarmis/rocketship   I recently came across some useful Sinatra templates and ended up having to integrate several things together in a service I'm currently working...

I recently found a (somewhat old) but great repository: https://github.com/daddz/sinatra-rspec-bundler-template. The structure really helps you build modular Sinatra apps and has the basics needed for you to jump in and start building. However, after discovering the...

Northwestern's CATS group is an amazing mix of technical and creative talent, and I recently had a great opportunity to help people interested in web development get their feet wet. I decided to choose Sinatra, which I'm actively using at my work and which allows a greatly...

...and it was really quite simple to do! Sherlock is pretty stupid: all you can do is click on him to specifically google the current tab's website. So, if you find yourself adding "site:example.com" to your Google searches often, this should be a nice shortcut. Here...

When developing locally, I find it useful to have the full development server logs available. Luckily, Rails 3.1 does this for you in the file ./log/development.log. However, if you want something similar for other frameworks/commands that run continuously and post any...

Do you use Sass and CoffeeScript? Tired of remembering and typing out the compile and watch commands on both of those command-line utilities? I used to do: compass watch coffee -o scripts/ -cw coffee/ ...on all of my projects, in separate tabs on the terminal. There...