As part of my work, I often create prototypes of Rails applications. My preferred tool for doing this is Serve. But as excellent as it is, it's a very thin application with no persistence layer. To be honest, I don't really want a persistence layer at this stage. But there are times when I want to be able to iterate over collections of objects the same way that I would in a Rails environment. Creating an index view of subscribers is a great example.

In search of lost time: how would you spend your life if you could recapture eight days every single year?

The solution that I found is an Android-x86 based system running inside of an Oracle VM VirtualBox. However, the key to this is Intel’s Houdini binary translator (libhoudini.so), which allows nearly-native execution of ARM code.

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Recently I have been studying for the PMP - a certification exam for Project Management Professionals. Like many people considering the exam...

Node.js has a pattern that I personally enjoy: if you require a directory, it will automatically look for a file called index.js in that directory and require it if present. This, to me, presents a simple, usable way to manage complex require schemes. On a whim, I decided to see how easy it would be to implement such a pattern in Ruby.