In Knowledge Management Needs to be Agile, Too, I said If you put people in competition with each other *in any way*, they will have dis-incentives to share their knowledge. John, in his comment on ... more »

The first scheduled class for the NFJS One venture is now official! And we don't even have the website live yet. :) This class will be a good mix of the "Why" as well as the "How". The goal is for yo... more »

A short while back, I did a brief series on the value of "dirty data"---copious amounts of unstructured, non-relational data created by the many interactions user have with your site and eac... more »

I just released a new gem on GitHub that provides some common validation expectations to rspec. Instead of writing specs to verify that your models are handling validation correctly, these expectation... more »

I’ve posted my “Seeing Your Work” podcast. It’s available on libsyn and through iTunes. If you’d like me to interview you or you interview me, lemme know. ... more »