- Software has bugs July 14, 2016
- Open Locks July 8, 2016
- Bulgaria passes law requiring open source July 6, 2016
- How to Write a Good GitHub README Using Data Science July 5, 2016
- Super hobbyists and pirates July 3, 2016
- My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project July 3, 2016
- Open Source best practices criteria July 3, 2016
- The term "open source" May 16, 2016
- 2016 Future of Open Source Survey Results May 3, 2016
- The curse of high-quality, zero-cost software April 20, 2016
- Technology is not your competitive advantage April 18, 2016
- Commercial Open Source April 18, 2016
- d’Oh My Zsh March 23, 2016
- Microsoft's ChakraCore engine in Node.js January 23, 2016
- Guilty by attribution January 22, 2016
- SJW January 21, 2016
- Carbon, Automobiles, Bebop, and Fashion January 11, 2016
- How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain January 9, 2016
- Trickle-Down Open Source January 8, 2016
- InnerSource Summit November 14, 2015
- Home Office 2.1 November 13, 2015
- Open Source Principles for Internal Engineering Teams October 19, 2015
- 99 Ways to ruin an open source project July 22, 2015
- Truck Factor July 13, 2015
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less July 9, 2015
- Well-known open source projects May 14, 2015
- Open Source Basics May 14, 2015
- Be careful what you tell yourself April 23, 2015
- On the importance of junk drawers March 18, 2015
- Tending Your Open Source Garden October 23, 2014
- User-generated content and DOM clobbering September 5, 2014
- Hide referrer when clicking a link May 15, 2014
- Lessons learned from a cancelled project April 28, 2014
- The Loyal Renegade February 26, 2014
- A GIF is worth a thousand screenshots February 26, 2014
- A Chronicle of the Nebulous HTML5 May 23, 2013
- Ruby at GitHub April 30, 2013
- Siri, add toilet paper to the shopping list January 7, 2013
- Convert a GitHub Issue Into a Pull Request November 9, 2012
- Add helper methods to your Rails console November 8, 2012
- Abusing Rails I18N to Set Page Titles November 5, 2012
- Why Hypermedia APIs Matter October 29, 2012
- Load environment variables with dotenv July 24, 2012
- What's it like to work at GitHub? June 5, 2012
- Releasing multiple gems from one repository May 30, 2012
- What's wrong with Cucumber May 28, 2012
- My Instapaper Strategy May 27, 2012
- Why Our Code Smells May 23, 2012
- The Plight of Pinocchio: JavaScript's quest to become a real language May 16, 2012
- Walking February 3, 2012
- Getting Started with Sublime Text 2 January 12, 2012
- The $40 Standup Desk January 9, 2012
- Wasting Time January 6, 2012
- GitHub Acquires Ordered List December 5, 2011
- Tunneling to Production December 1, 2011
- HAML: the unforgivable sin November 30, 2011
- Startup Fatigue November 21, 2011
- Sinatra and SSL November 17, 2011
- Why another queuing library? October 20, 2011
- bundle exec fatigue September 14, 2011
- Sortable lists in key-value data stores September 6, 2011
- Git: the NoSQL database September 1, 2011
- Pusher notifications with EventMachine August 30, 2011
- Rhythm August 10, 2011
- Rails 3.1 Hackfest July 21, 2011
- Live search with knockout.js June 23, 2011
- Fish prefer worms June 10, 2011
- Give honest, sincere appreciation June 3, 2011
- Don't criticize, condemn or complain May 27, 2011
- How to Win Friends… May 27, 2011
- Validation Anti-Pattern April 28, 2011
- Inevitable Design March 2, 2011
- The world runs on bad software February 28, 2011
- git notes February 24, 2011
- JSLint and Jasmine February 20, 2011
- Concerning ActiveSupport::Concern February 8, 2011
- An Introduction to HTML5 February 1, 2011
- ETags with memcached January 29, 2011
- Don't should on yourself December 17, 2010
- The Ruby Infinite Hash December 13, 2010
- Sinatra serenades Rails 2 December 10, 2010
- Raise the roof, yo! December 6, 2010
- Capistrano cowboy deploys December 5, 2010
- Leaving Collective Idea December 2, 2010
- Capybaras eating cucumbers May 11, 2010
- The quest for the Holy object serialization format May 3, 2010
- Cucumber and Sunspot April 7, 2010
- delayed_job 2.0 April 3, 2010
- Great Lakes Ruby Bash February 17, 2010
- Active Resource in practice February 16, 2010
- Passenger and browser testing in virtual machines February 9, 2010
- Things that will rock the (my) world in 2010 January 5, 2010
- acts_as_audited and authlogic October 29, 2009
- How to Gemify your Rails Plugins October 5, 2009
- Capistrano, Git and SSH keys June 24, 2009
- Cucumber scenarios that depend on Sphinx June 1, 2009
- Site-specific app for Rails docs May 6, 2009
- Keepin' Sphinx Indexes Fresh April 30, 2009
- Location-based search with Sphinx and acts_as_geocodable April 15, 2009
- Training: Advanced Rails, jQuery, and more March 31, 2009
- Testing Facebook with Cucumber March 6, 2009
- Showing Ajax activity with CSS March 4, 2009
- Plugging Rack into Rails March 3, 2009
- Force Absolute URLs February 21, 2009
- Network Time Machine backups to another Mac January 15, 2009
- Give back to the community January 9, 2009
- Acknowledge contributions January 8, 2009
- Outsourcing vs. Offshoring December 21, 2008
- Graticule and MapQuest? December 13, 2008
- Testing views in RSpec with namespaced elements December 4, 2008
- awesome_nested_set: making nested sets cool November 17, 2008
- Capistrano 2.5 and older versions of git November 13, 2008
- Rails Training: January 20–23 in San Antonio, TX November 12, 2008
- Making RSpec concise November 10, 2008
- It's a search party! November 8, 2008
- Ajax and Request Forgery Protection October 24, 2008
- Push Upstream October 22, 2008
- Money with precision October 18, 2008
- Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber October 14, 2008
- acts_as_audited in development October 13, 2008
- The importance of var in JavaScript September 4, 2008
- Autotest mapping for Rails test conventions August 22, 2008
- Merging Active Record models August 21, 2008
- Life without fixtures August 21, 2008
- Win a free week of Rails training August 18, 2008
- Fix for acts_as_audited and attr_accessible August 3, 2008
- Safari bug with DLs and floats July 25, 2008
- Ruby on Rails Training: August 25-28 July 3, 2008
- Obscure RubyGems Error June 23, 2008
- Splitting Hairs and Arrays June 19, 2008
- Last call for early-bird price on Rails Training May 29, 2008
- Collective Idea welcomes Brian Ryckbost May 19, 2008
- Announcing: Training by Collective Idea May 15, 2008
- Using shared indexes with acts_as_ferret April 29, 2008
- Awesomeness: database backups April 27, 2008
- Proxy support for Tinder April 18, 2008
- Daily WTF: NilClass#method_missing April 18, 2008
- Social Sites you should check out March 27, 2008
- Tips for freelancers: take a shower March 20, 2008
- Ruby on Rails Training in San Francisco: April 1–4 February 28, 2008
- RSpec flirts with git February 28, 2008
- Camper: Jabber for Campfire February 18, 2008
- Getting a glimpse into Net::HTTP requests February 16, 2008
- Tinder fixed after Campfire update January 25, 2008
- Ruby on Rails Training in San Francisco, Jan 29–Feb 1 January 11, 2008
- Ruby's require doesn't expand paths January 9, 2008
- acts_as_audited and ActiveScaffold December 13, 2007
- Hack for partial matches in Ferret December 12, 2007
- Autotest without Rails December 6, 2007
- How many HTML elements can you name in 5 minutes? November 23, 2007
- Ruby on Rails 2.0 Training in San Francisco, Nov 26-29 November 15, 2007
- Mobile web app developers: I don't know the zip code October 17, 2007
- Fixed in edge rails: table name quoting October 16, 2007
- Ignorance October 16, 2007
- Web app idea of the day: estimate and manage home-improvement projects September 30, 2007
- Looking for a Rubyist September 27, 2007
- Graticule can failover September 13, 2007
- acts_as_ferret will_paginate August 17, 2007
- Sharing is backing up August 9, 2007
- Edge Rails gets layouts for partials August 3, 2007
- Google adds more countries to geocoder August 2, 2007
- That CD is the best, says people that like that kind of music July 18, 2007
- Round floats to the nearest X July 18, 2007
- Ruby on Rails Training July 18, 2007
- Handling forms with multiple buttons July 16, 2007
- TextMate snippet for clearing floats July 14, 2007
- Observers for Ajax callbacks July 12, 2007
- Adding DOM methods with Prototype July 11, 2007
- Stream of consciousness July 11, 2007
- Making cookies with Javascript July 11, 2007
- How to eliminate the best candidates July 8, 2007
- Google Maps geocoder adds support for UK July 7, 2007
- Firebug lite for all those other browsers July 2, 2007
- Bending iTunes to my will with RubyOSA: take 1 June 30, 2007
- RSpec is getting too intimate with my code June 20, 2007
- Working in Israel June 19, 2007
- Revisioning with acts_as_audited June 18, 2007
- RSpec 1.0 May 19, 2007
- MidWest.rb camaraderie May 18, 2007
- Varying validations May 10, 2007
- Happy anniversary to me May 3, 2007
- Firefox + Mac + Flash + CSS opacity = peek-a-boo April 26, 2007
- How to test dependencies on external services? April 25, 2007
- Looking for a project April 25, 2007
- rspec: model.should be_valid April 18, 2007
- Moving Podcast tracks into your iTunes library April 17, 2007
- Collective Idea gets a face lift April 16, 2007
- Derek Webb releases MP3 downloads before CD April 13, 2007
- Creating encrypted Zip archives with OS X April 9, 2007
- CSS Naked Day April 5, 2007
- Helping clients want what they need March 30, 2007
- Graticule update, site, and mailing list March 28, 2007
- Graticule and acts_as_geocodable go international March 27, 2007
- Don't buy from Builder Depot March 16, 2007
- Pinder: python port of Tinder March 7, 2007
- Tinder: reading Campfire transcripts March 5, 2007
- Renaming .rhtml to .erb using Ruby March 4, 2007
- An extra GB makes all the difference February 25, 2007
- Tinder gets the unofficial 37Signals nod February 22, 2007
- Fixing Range#step February 13, 2007
- Ranges include? or overlap? with Ranges February 13, 2007
- Geocoding as easy as 1-2... February 13, 2007
- Tinder: Chatting in private February 13, 2007
- Showing you my gems February 11, 2007
- Automatically backing up your remote database on deploy February 9, 2007
- Social DRM February 8, 2007
- Addicted to Democracy February 8, 2007
- Validations on empty (not nil) attributes February 7, 2007
- Using a singleton resource for an admin section February 5, 2007
- How Rails has made me a better programmer February 3, 2007
- RailsConf 2007 registration February 2, 2007
- Tinder: Listening is just as important as speaking January 27, 2007
- Cerberus has a sense of humor January 19, 2007
- Plagiarism Friday December 16, 2006
- Why does #step return itself? December 12, 2006
- Tinder: Campfire API December 8, 2006
- Should there be an official Rails manual? December 3, 2006
- Iowa vs. Microsoft December 2, 2006
- Number of patches != relative security November 30, 2006
- Active Merchant on Google Groups November 23, 2006
- User auditing with acts_as_audited November 19, 2006
- Making #composed_of more useful November 16, 2006
- acts_as_money November 13, 2006
- Announcing Graticule geocoding API October 31, 2006
- Migrated to mephisto - new design October 26, 2006
- How many introductions to Ajax do we need? October 9, 2006
- x86_64 RPMs for deploying Rails on Centos October 9, 2006
- What's your command? September 27, 2006
- Using RedBox for modal dialogs September 21, 2006
- Paypal IPN in Rails with Active Merchant September 16, 2006
- My First Rails Core Contribution September 16, 2006
- abbr vs. acronym September 12, 2006
- acts_as_audited security update September 7, 2006
- Upgraded Atom feed to 1.0 August 26, 2006
- If the food industry was like the software industry August 13, 2006
- Tip: Overriding link_to to accept a block August 4, 2006
- RPMs for Deploying Rails on CentOS August 2, 2006
- RubyConf*MI open for registration July 29, 2006
- acts_as_audited July 21, 2006
- tt July 19, 2006
- Using breakpointer to debug rails tests July 19, 2006
- Using GPG on OS X July 18, 2006
- Public Key Encryption: the anti-spam July 17, 2006
- acts_as_billable :plugin, :through = :rails July 13, 2006
- Why I Hate Microformats July 12, 2006
- RubyConf*MI July 12, 2006
- Secure Backups with GPG July 6, 2006
- Ruby Documentation Redux July 4, 2006
- Ruby Documentation July 3, 2006
- Adobe Photoshop CS2 hosed my partition June 29, 2006
- User Interface First June 26, 2006
- Lessons from RailsConf June 26, 2006
- RailsConf, here we come June 22, 2006
- The Apple Experience June 22, 2006
- Blogging from TextMate June 21, 2006
- American Idolatry May 24, 2006
- Linux on the Desktop March 3, 2006
- My Experience with the Nokia 770 February 3, 2006
- 7dots.com January 16, 2006
- Desktop Linux As It Should Be December 21, 2005
- The Best Software Writing I October 23, 2005
- Requirements For a Website Platform October 23, 2005
I am Brandon Keepers, and I work at GitHub on making Open Source more approachable, effective, and ubiquitous. I tend to think like an engineer, work like an artist, dream like an astronaut, love like a human, and sleep like a baby.