What’s that? You want to write an expectation for an array but your method returns the Array in a nondeterministic ordering?

Here’s a list of things that have been annoying, or at least a bit frustrating using Ohm, the Redis ORM, in a Rails app. Beware to those who assume Ohm is ActiveRecord in new clothes. It is, but it’s not:

I should have mentioned this long ago, but I started work at Blurb in early August. It’s been a quick ramp-up and I’m loving it there, surrounded by smart engineers and great designers. I do Rails/JS work there, and I’m building a lot of chops around Agile/TDD methodologies.

mmtss is a loop station built for live performances.

My friends were complaining that wedding photobooths were too expensive to rent. Could we make one for them?

I’m on a team with BRUTE LABS, a volunteer-led design agency working on StudentsConnect, a prototype project making chatroulette-style interactions connecting students from the global North and South. Here’s a UX flow we worked on:

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Here’s how the installation looked on the day of the art show.

I just spent five hours trying to figure out why  none of the Firmata libraries for Python were working over my serial connection. I was wondering why the previous program remained on the board and none of the signals sent were hot.

So I got the poster printed, and the LEDs currently show through the board pretty well. This is good:

A quick update on the art project:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1926-a-shorthand-for-designing-ui-flows

Let’s face it: jQuery UI skins suck. They’re flat, they’re boring, they don’t pop.

A month ago I bought an ‘07 MacBook on Craigslist. No, it’s not one of those sexy aluminum hot rods, but it sure is pretty.

Here’s how to set up the excellent VMware-developed open-source Review Board and its [post-review](http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/rbtools/0.2/) command line review creation utility to work with git and git-svn on your computer.