Archive

2026  2

February  2

Nonviolent Communication

February 28, 2026 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Hello, Bridge

February 27, 2026 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

2016  1

February  1

Idea: Cooperative Board Games as a Culture Fit Interview

February 2, 2016 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

2015  1

April  1

Tips and Tricks for Working from Home

April 8, 2015 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

2014  3

November  1

Empower Your Developers

November 9, 2014 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

February  2

Ergodox - Creating a layout

February 24, 2014 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

ErgoDox - The First Week

February 11, 2014 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

2013  44

December  1

Code Retreat

December 19, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

November  2

Different Pairing Styles

November 16, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Firming Up before Moving On

November 12, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

October  1

How to Interview Well

October 17, 2013 · 5 min · Mark Simoneau

August  4

Exercism.io - Refactoring and Reading FTW

August 15, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @piisalie - Emacs and Exercism.io

August 9, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Adventures in Elixir

August 5, 2013 · 5 min · Mark Simoneau

How To VIM+TMUX

August 5, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

July  7

Automating Distraction-free Work

July 24, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

Lone Star Ruby Conf 2013

July 22, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

The #pairwithme Progression

July 20, 2013 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @jnanney - OAuth

July 18, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @willpragnell - Mute Pairing with VIM

July 9, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

TDD And Pairing Will Save You

July 9, 2013 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @peter_v - Improving a Semantic Store

July 3, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

June  12

Pairing Post Mortem - @stuartrexking - Cane Extension

June 24, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

Steps for a Beginner to Learn Ruby

June 20, 2013 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @_zph - Meta Pull Requests

June 19, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @Shicholas - String Calculator

June 18, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @hinbody - Attacking Open Source is Hard

June 14, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @willpragnell - Overseas TDD

June 14, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Watch and Learn

June 7, 2013 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @mattr_ - Pending Specs and Assertions First

June 6, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - The Mistake

June 6, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Quick Script for TMUX pair sessions

June 6, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @_zph - VIM and a Gem

June 5, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @Shicholas - Real World Lessons and Bowling

June 4, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

May  12

Pairing Post Mortem - @kmeister2000 - Refactoring and MiniTest

May 29, 2013 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem : @hinbody - TicTacToe and TMUX

May 29, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem : @thecommongeek - Ruby Koans

May 28, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

A Commitment to Being Positive

May 23, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @javichitone - Improving a Gem

May 22, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @jdar - Chrome Extensions

May 21, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @kmeister2000 - TDD and Domain Knowledge

May 16, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Tricks and Tips I’ve Learned for Coordinating Pairing Sessions

May 16, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing Post Mortem - @thecommongeek - Learning and Mentoring

May 13, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Ping Pong Pairing without Screen Sharing

May 9, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pushing Past Programmer’s Block

May 6, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

ToDo Lists and Bug Trackers

May 1, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

April  4

Mouseless

April 29, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Tic Tac Toe TDD

April 25, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pairing as a Life Habit

April 24, 2013 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

TDD and Pairing Ideas

April 24, 2013 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

January  1

Using VIM Fulltime

January 5, 2013 · 4 min · Mark Simoneau

2012  17

July  3

Spec Run snapshot–for nostalgia

July 24, 2012 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Running Rails 3.2 on a shared Dreamhost with Passenger

July 20, 2012 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

Split Badges with Twitter Bootstrap and HAML

July 19, 2012 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

June  2

Easy way to limit the length of a list

June 15, 2012 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

ImageMagick, JPEGs, and Orientation, Oh My

June 13, 2012 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

May  3

DCI Generators in Rails

May 22, 2012 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

CSS3 max-width and min-width selectors

May 16, 2012 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Electronic Music Is Good for Coding

May 16, 2012 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

April  4

Distributed Teams in the Same Room

April 24, 2012 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Pull Requests on Private Teams

April 24, 2012 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Git Bisect For Great Justice

April 12, 2012 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

CanCan and Devise with nil current_user on POST

April 11, 2012 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

March  2

Best Way to Bundle

March 14, 2012 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Always Fight for Simpler

March 8, 2012 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

February  2

Complexity and Elusive Perfection

February 29, 2012 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Octopress

February 28, 2012 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

January  1

My Ideal GTD App

January 26, 2012 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

2011  6

November  1

Don’t Use DateTime in Rails 3

November 29, 2011 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

October  1

Code Kata #1 - Supermarket Pricing

October 14, 2011 · 4 min · Mark Simoneau

September  1

Scary Complicated or Richly Awesome?

September 27, 2011 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

April  1

Feedback Loops and Estimation -or- What Rubik’s Cubes Taught Me About Making Software

April 4, 2011 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

March  1

Migrating Serialized Columns in Rails

March 3, 2011 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

January  1

How to Stay At Inbox Zero

January 4, 2011 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

2010  19

December  1

The Importance Of Speed in Automation

December 3, 2010 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

October  1

Stop Googling // RailsTips by John Nunemaker

October 14, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

August  2

Things and Pomodoro

August 31, 2010 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

A Ruby Scoping Gotcha?

August 27, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

June  1

Optional Heirarchal Checkbox Selection with Nested Attributes in Rails

June 4, 2010 · 4 min · Mark Simoneau

May  1

How and Why to Stop Multitasking - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review

May 27, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

April  2

9GAG - Making an iPad stand from its own packaging

April 27, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Who Is A Good Tester?

April 14, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

March  1

Rails Controller Specs with users, roles and nested routes

March 3, 2010 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

February  8

An Interesting Way to Publish a Blog

February 27, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Simplicity

February 23, 2010 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Python vs. Ruby - A Fight To The Death

February 21, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

“I need to talk to you about computers.”

February 12, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

PDF Generation in Rails… The Right Way

February 12, 2010 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

The Path to Rails 3: Greenfielding new apps with the Rails 3 beta

February 9, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

The Building Blocks of Ruby

February 8, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

iPad - The Future of Casual Computing

February 2, 2010 · 3 min · Mark Simoneau

January  2

Getting Git

January 25, 2010 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Why programmers should play Go

January 7, 2010 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

2009  15

December  3

Build a system, not a product

December 11, 2009 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Fixing “Freemium” issues in the App Store

December 11, 2009 · 2 min · Mark Simoneau

Installing memcached 1.4.4 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

December 2, 2009 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

November  2

25 Tips for Intermediate Git Users

November 23, 2009 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

Buy Bad Code Offsets Today!

November 19, 2009 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

October  1

Autoficiency

October 29, 2009 · 1 min · Mark Simoneau

June  2

Syncing with iCal

June 23, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau

Tips and Tricks

June 1, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau

April  2

Projects and Areas

April 16, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau

Recurring Tasks

April 1, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau

March  1

Taking Things With You

March 10, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau

February  4

Using Tags

February 27, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau

Managing Your Today List

February 17, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau

An Introduction to Things (Part 2)

February 12, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau

An Introduction to Things (Part 1)

February 11, 2009 · 0 min · Mark Simoneau