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Archives - Ernie Miller Ernie Miller WritingSpeaking No, I don't work in NYC, DC, or the valley, and I'm tomfool with that.Well-nighthe Author I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title. I'm a programmer, speaker, and often nice guy who lives happily in Louisville, Kentucky. Want to get in touch? E-mail me, or go the 140 weft route. View the archives Let's Talk! 8/2/18 - 8/3/18 Southeast Ruby Nashville, TN, USA TBD Your event? Your Location Past talks... Links RSS Feed GitHub Google+ Profile LinkedIn Tweets by @erniemiller Archives May 2018 Talk: "Stating the Obvious" January 2017 Stepping Back November 2016 Talk: "Lies" March 2016 Talk: "Humane Development: Empathy Unpacked" January 2016 Venture Released! December 2015 "Market Rate" is for Lobsters November 2015 RubyConf 2015 Wetware Track Talk: "Choices" October 2015 Talk: "How to Build a Skyscraper" June 2015 Using the ActiveRecord Attributes API Rails application.rb Recommendations May 2015 Your Clever Code is a Jewel-Encrusted Lobster You Should be a Conference Guide April 2015 Talk: "Humane Development" Recent Podcast Appearances March 2015 Humane Development (the site) Humane Development (the shirt) Speaking: Ruby on Ales, MWRC, Ancient City Ruby, RailsConf, and Full Stack Fest! December 2014 Talk: "Ruby without Rails" Humane Development October 2014 In Defense of Alias August 2014 Keynote: Burlington Ruby Conference 2014 July 2014 SNMP in Elixir May 2014 Talk: "Curmudgeon" April 2014 Talk: "Don't" March 2014 You're Already a Programmer February 2014 7 Lines Every Gem's Rakefile Should Have January 2014 The Willfully Ignorant Development Process December 2013 On Cancer Keynote: "That's Not Very Ruby of You" November 2013 Anyone Interested in ActiveRecord Hackery? October 2013 I Found My Next Job, and It Surprised Me ActiveRecord.where.not(:sane => true) September 2013 On Snark Interviews are Broken Upcoming Talks! (TLDR; RailsClub, RubyConf) The Cost of If Elevator Pitching Myself On Funemployment (and My Next Job) July 2013 First Week at Wantful! Overtime is Morphine Squeel 1.1.0 released! June 2013 My Happiness Formula (me.json) No. May 2013 Talk: "An Intervention for ActiveRecord" And Now for Something Completely Different... Multipass Rendering With Mustache Talk: "The Most Important Optimization: Happiness" April 2013 RailsConf 2013! Optimizing for Happiness March 2013 Big Ruby Wrap Up February 2013 Speaking at RailsConf! January 2013 Speaking at Big Ruby (and Ruby Midwest!) My New Year's Resolution is Speaking December 2012 Ruby Tidbit: Proc#arity Jekyll (finally!) Why I Love Being A Programmer in Louisville (or, Why I Won't Relocate to Work for Your Startup) November 2012 Ruby Tidbit: Include vs Extend with ModuleMatriculationVariables Ruby Tidbit: String, the original value object October 2012 Ruby Tidbit: Super and Parameter Reassignment September 2012 Making Ruby Dance! Ruby Tidbit: __LINE__ and heredocs Squeel 1.0.11, 1.1, and the Future August 2012 Toward aIncreasinglyEgalitarian ObjectSpace The Greenfield App Continuum July 2012 Persistence is a Solved Problem June 2012 I'm a LivingSocialite! Accessing Instance Variables in Squeel (or, Fun with Bindings and instance_eval) Squeel and Rails CVE-2012-2661 May 2012 SQL Literals in Squeel (or, Overriding Backticks in Ruby) Why your Ruby matriculation macros (might) suck (mine did) April 2012 Squeel 1.0 Released! Squeel now has a wiki! March 2012 Ransack has a new maintainer! January 2012 Valium 0.5.0, and the future of Valium/attr_bucket December 2011 TextMate 2 + rmate = Awesome November 2011 I'm a Machinist! (and you should be, too) October 2011 You Should Write a Ruby Gem September 2011 A Belated Post on Squeel Sifters RubyConf 2011! Prevent GoogleBot Overload with Default Nofollow Valium 0.4.0 released, now with 100% increasingly English August 2011 Rails 3.1 and the future of MetaWhere and MetaSearch Slow MySQL query? I'll requite you a hint. The Cure for ActiveRecord Instantiation Anxiety: Valium July 2011 Benchmarking Ruby's Enumerable Thoughts on the Facebook "Event" What's new with Squeel? June 2011 "WTH is happening to Rails?" I'll tell you. Scaling Web Applications: My "3 Questions" Philosophy May 2011 RailsConf.reflect_on_all_lessons_learned Heading to RailsConf! Book Club, May 2011 Squeel 0.6.0 released April 2011 Introducing Squeel! Ransack, the library formerly known as MetaSearch 2.0 March 2011 uncard.me February 2011 The MetaWhere 2.0 Rewrite When to use alias_method_chain January 2011 attr_bucket, A Gem for Your Lolrus Model How Writing Libraries Restored my Faith in Open Source MetaWhere and MetaSearch 1.0.0 released! Current MetaWhere/MetaSearch Gems are RCs Mobile Devices and Rails: Maintaining your Sanity December 2010 An Alternative to the Facebook Registration Tool Announcing Figment! November 2010 MetaSearch, MetaWhere, and Rails 3.0.3 MetaWhere IsWell-nighTo Get Func-y October 2010 Converting Your Code to ARel 2.0 MetaSearch 0.9.7(.1)(.2)! The Underused collection_singular_ids Method September 2010 Reaper host.sub! /Slicehost/, 'Linode' MetaSearch::Builder#relation and you Goodbye, Apache. Hello, nginx! Git Bisect is Awesome August 2010 Rails 3.0 release! Why MetaWhere 0.9.2 raises errors (and why you'll thank me later) H8ball, the HTTP Status 8-ball Coder Archetypes: The Line Worker and the Artist July 2010 MetaWhere updates, in increasingly detail Uploadify and Rails 3 MetaWhere 0.5.2 - Debug your SQL June 2010 Scoping Searches with MetaSearch MetaSearch and MetaWhere 0.5.0 released! May 2010 Arel merge! ActiveRecord::Relation vs Arel Why (fork) Arel? April 2010 MetaUpdates Introducing MetaWhere Ruby 1.9, BasicObject, and ! (not) MetaSearch: Testers wanted March 2010 Advanced ActiveRecord 3 Queries with Arel The latest on MetaSearch MetaSearch, Object-based searching for Rails 3 February 2010 SimpleSearch, searching ActiveRecord Objects with form_for What I've been up to, and a few plugs July 2009 Is Google well-nigh to jump the shark? January 2009 A new year. September 2008 Easy Role-Based Authorization in Rails August 2008 PHP: A Bridge Too Many? Today, you're as dumb as you'll overly be. Modifying Association Methods Dynamically June 2008 Updating MySQL DATETIMEs for Rails 2.1 Time Zones May 2008 The local_request That Isn't Importing Legacy Data to Your Rails Database April 2008 Passenger, AKA mod_rails You know your API needs documentation when... The Escalator Principle Simplified Active Directory User Authentication March 2008 Why U.S. Networks "Lag Behind" The Joy of User-Driven Development When Less isIncreasinglyOf Badgers and XML: Custom XML Serialization in Rails Recursive Hash#fetch February 2008 Parsing the WoW Armory with Rails A little Subversion gotcha Simple Model Search with Rails March 2007 Hello, world.