Recently I read Shanely’s What Your Culture Really Says. I’v also been seeing a lot of tweets about how you should let employees work remotely lately. Certainly DHH has been saying this loudly for a long time. There is a truth in these arguments, but they go too far. Life is complicated and there is no […]

These are the set of commands to checkout a branch of a repository from Github, which is not immediately obvious the first time you try it. First clone the repo if you haven’t: git clone url-to-repo-you-want Clone has already checked out the branches, but it only initially creates the master branch. You have to tell […]

I’m glad to announce that Get Encouraged is now freely available on github. The code is available here: http://github.com/mmzyk/getencouraged/tree/master Thanks to More Better Labs for allowing me to open source the code, since it was originally written for them. Get Encouraged is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.  Please download and play away.  […]