Lance Ball
I'm a software developer, yogi, actor, photographer, gardener and father. But I really want to direct.
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@mdi @wordnrrrd a couple of cheap ikea desks and an old bar stool do the trick for me. #DIY #ergo http://t.co/XrnMLKYO
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@SenatorHagan excellent news about your focus on jobs. Now avoid stifling innovation and internet job creation by opposing #PIPA as well.9 days ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@jcrossley3 awesome! I called @senatorburr @senatorhagan & #heathshuler today to express my opposition to #SOPA - hope they're listening!
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Photo: Do it for the kittens. http://t.co/AXDNOTlh
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Hahah - been there. “@alyankovic: AHHH! OH GOD I’M DYING! NOOO!!! I—oh, wait, I had a beet salad last night.”
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@justinbkay @mwrc @headius I'm hoping my torquebox talk will be accepted; if it does, I promise to talk about how it's built on jruby. :P2 weeks ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Yippee & welcome! “@qmx: yay! I'm joining JBoss/Red Hat - an old dream comes true \o/”
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"Life is 10% of What Happens to Me and 90% of How I React to It" - @Lifehacker http://t.co/zzfsYOak
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OH: It's cozy without pants.
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Photo: Sunset at Lake Lanier - New Years Eve 2011 (Taken with Instagram at Lake Lanier) http://t.co/Wtsy0wgq
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Texas for the holidays http://t.co/Z8CBNEDl
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Departed on our 801 mile drive at exactly 8:01am. If it weren't so daunting, it'd be poetic.
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@MatEllis check out @MojoCoworking - they have a sweet space and it's right downtown.
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We made a Buche Noel http://t.co/4qFPrK6j
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OH: you're such a welfare mom
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What would you do if you earned a million bucks in 12 days? https://t.co/ewinkbT9 #drm #louisck #charity
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@cloudability that's awesome - congrats!
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@mojavelinux Thanks Dan - that's our motivation. Short and sweet keeps you from falling asleep and you learn something good in < 5 mins.
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OH: it is unfortunate that most build tools with sufficient feature set and complexity (d)evolve into something resembling mvn5 weeks ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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@sneakin it's focused on getting started, so only a dev deployment - gotta keep them short!
Profile
Senior Software Developer at Red Hat
Computer Software | Asheville, North Carolina Area, US
Summary
I have been a working software developer since 1994.
I write Ruby and Java code on the TorqueBox project (http://torquebox.org) for Red Hat, and contribute to various other open source efforts.
I have a Masters in Computer Science from NYU; have built web sites for Fortune 500 companies like T. Rowe Price, Chase Manhattan Bank, and ING Barings; have been VP of Software Development at a New York City dot com startup, and worked for several Silicon Valley, NYC and Chicago based companies, including SPSS, Inc. (http://www.spss.com), where I led the development of large scale, distributed web services and desktop application software.
I have a passion for clean design, architectural simplicity, and disciplined testing.
I write Ruby and Java code on the TorqueBox project (http://torquebox.org) for Red Hat, and contribute to various other open source efforts.
I have a Masters in Computer Science from NYU; have built web sites for Fortune 500 companies like T. Rowe Price, Chase Manhattan Bank, and ING Barings; have been VP of Software Development at a New York City dot com startup, and worked for several Silicon Valley, NYC and Chicago based companies, including SPSS, Inc. (http://www.spss.com), where I led the development of large scale, distributed web services and desktop application software.
I have a passion for clean design, architectural simplicity, and disciplined testing.
Specialties: Ruby on Rails, Java
Experience
- Sept 2010 - PresentSenior Software Developer / Red HatWriting code for TorqueBox and other open source projects.
- 2009 - 2010Owner / LocomotivityFounded and operated the first coworking space in Asheville, NC
- Apr 2008 - Sept 2010Founder / Shovelpunks, IncClient software development specializing in web based software solutions, primarily done using Ruby & Rails.
- Jul 2007 - Apr 2008Lead Software Engineer / Electric Sheep CompanyDesign and implementation of an advertising network in 3D virtual environments, with Second Life being the first. Wrote code for OnRez Viewer, a custom implementation of Linden Lab's Second Life viewer. Contributed to custom virtual world backend code in Java.
- Feb 2007 - Jul 2007Principal Software Engineer / NetBluePrincipal software engineer responsible for back end ad server and database systems.
- 2007 - 2007Senior Software Engineer / Connexus CorpPrincipal software engineer responsible for back end ad server and database systems.
- Aug 2001 - Jan 2007Master Software Engineer / SPSS, Inc.Technical lead on large-scale, enterprise class software products. Working with geographically distributed team using agile development methodologies. Primary development language is Java.
Review and recommend 3rd party products and open source tools for internal use. - Apr 1999 - Jul 2001VP Software Engineering / Primary KnowledgeManaged the growth and development of a team of software engineers for a dot com startup. Oversaw all software development projects, and led the development effort for a large scale distributed data transformation system. Primary development languages were Java and C++.
- Mar 1998 - Apr 1999Technical Lead / Hearst New MediaLed development projects for Hearst's Women.com web site.
- Nov 1996 - Mar 1998Senior Software Developer / Poppe TysonDeveloped web sites for Fortune 500 companies as a part of the Poppe Tyson advertising group. Primary development language was Perl.
- 1991 - 1998Associate Director / adobe theatre company
Education
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1996 - 1998New York UniversityMS in Computer Science
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1986 - 1990Southwestern UniversityBFA in Theatre
Additional Information
Websites:
Posts
Sunset at Lake Lanier - New Years Eve 2011 (Taken with Instagram at Lake Lanier)
I went to Moogfest this year and caught three awesome acts: The Flaming Lips, Amon Tobin: ISAM, and STS9. Here’s some video that I got of the last one at Asheville Civic Center.
Charlie’s Monsters, a set on Flickr.
I found “Charlie’s Science Journal” filled with science of his own imagination.I hate CAPTCHAs even though I understand their necessity. But this one takes the cake. Should I write out “phi” or figure out how to make my keyboard emit it.
Gateway Arch, St. Loius, MO, a set on Flickr.
I was in St. Lois for the Strangeloop Conference the first of this week. I had an hour, so I went to the top of the Gateway Arch.Goodbye party on Flickr.
At Jeff and Belinda’s going away party. They’re moving to Portland, ME to eat lobster. I was playing around with my new camera’s slow sync flash setting.
Grief Bacon
Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
And there’s more where that came from! 15 wonderful words with no English equivalent.
SteamPunk prosthetics. Awesome.
Victorian-era prosthetic arm, from Europe. Yes, it’s real.
Tomorrow: a conversation about (very modern-day) prostheses with Biomechatronics professor and double-amputee Hugh Herr.
Got them for the kids but can’t wait to get on the water this weekend (Taken with instagram)
Odilon Redon, “Ophelia”
Heading to Paris in 2 weeks. Can’t wait to see this and more Redon up close and in person. Thanks Uncle Mike for turning me on to this artist!
Repositories
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Library for performing validations on DM models and pure Ruby object1 watcher/Pushed 4 days ago
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1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 8 weeks ago
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Utility to check your TorqueBox installation1 fork/3 watchers/Pushed 2 months ago
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awestruct.org website1 watcher/Pushed 2 months ago
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Sample app using dm-infinispan-adapter on TorqueBox2 forks/2 watchers/Pushed 2 months ago
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My dotfiles such as they are1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 4 months ago
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Sample code and presentation notes StrangeLoop 2011 talk1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 4 months ago
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Magnetic Field Refinery Implementation1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 5 months ago
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DO NOT USE THIS REPO - Development continued at http://github.com/torquebox/infinispan-ruby-client1 watcher/Pushed 7 months ago
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Ruby on Rails CRM platform for Web 2.0 and beyond1 watcher/Pushed 10 months ago
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DO NOT USE: Development continued at https://github.com/torquebox/stompbox1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 11 months ago
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Boxgrinder appliance definitions and RPM spec files for building a TorqueBox AMI1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 12 months ago
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NA Roofing Salesperson Portal1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 18 months ago
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Static site-baking tool1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 20 months ago
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Workhorse Rails template used at ScullyTown1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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Browse and Manage your data using browser1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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Rails 2.3 template file3 forks/4 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Simply Unobtrusive Javascript1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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Locomotivity site redesign1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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A Rails project template, intended to keep app baselines up to date. Includes shoulda, mocha, factory_girl, Hoptoad, git rake tasks, cap recipes, etc.1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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A little Sinatra app that I'm using for my home page2 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Uses Rails routing to make nice URLs so you get /books/oliver_twist instead of /books/12343 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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A simple javascript class that dynamically adds up the values of form fields and updates a "total" field.1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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Tracks DHCP leases and allows users to claim devices and tie them to an individual user and then track usage1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
Watched Repositories
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JBoss Application Server363 forks/454 watchers/Pushed 7 hours ago
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Ruby on Rails CRM platform for Web 2.0 and beyond481 forks/1732 watchers/Pushed 18 hours ago
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Library for performing validations on DM models and pure Ruby object1 watcher/Pushed 4 days ago
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Fixture replacement for focused and readable tests.222 forks/1864 watchers/Pushed 4 days ago
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Jekyll is a blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby775 forks/4934 watchers/Pushed 4 days ago
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Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser with XPath and CSS selector support.159 forks/1505 watchers/Pushed 9 days ago
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Static site-baking tool19 forks/39 watchers/Pushed 10 days ago
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Library for performing validations on DM models and pure Ruby object27 forks/42 watchers/Pushed 2 weeks ago
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Cron jobs in Ruby163 forks/2311 watchers/Pushed 5 weeks ago
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HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku222 forks/1691 watchers/Pushed 6 weeks ago
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WebSocket server basing on Rack5 forks/119 watchers/Pushed 6 weeks ago
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script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript framework for visual effects and interface behaviours.424 forks/2042 watchers/Pushed 7 weeks ago
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1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 8 weeks ago
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Utility to check your TorqueBox installation1 fork/3 watchers/Pushed 2 months ago
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Makes tests easy on the fingers and the eyes158 forks/1196 watchers/Pushed 2 months ago
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awestruct.org website1 watcher/Pushed 2 months ago
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Sample app using dm-infinispan-adapter on TorqueBox2 forks/2 watchers/Pushed 2 months ago
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A non instrusive gem which helps you browse, search and manage your data using browser39 forks/420 watchers/Pushed 2 months ago
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awestruct.org website7 forks/7 watchers/Pushed 2 months ago
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Heavyweight template for Rails 2.3.x36 forks/314 watchers/Pushed 2 months ago
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Rails RESTful controller abstraction plugin.79 forks/539 watchers/Pushed 4 months ago
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My dotfiles such as they are1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 4 months ago
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A CSS framework that aims to cut down on your CSS development time417 forks/4821 watchers/Pushed 4 months ago
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Sample code and presentation notes StrangeLoop 2011 talk1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 4 months ago
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Treat an ActiveRecord model as a file attachment, storing its patch, size, content type, etc.214 forks/1078 watchers/Pushed 4 months ago
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RSpec extension library for Ruby on Rails73 forks/867 watchers/Pushed 5 months ago
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Generates common user authentication code for Rails/Merb, with a full test/unit and rspec suite and optional Acts as State Machine support built-in.259 forks/1710 watchers/Pushed 5 months ago
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Magnetic Field Refinery Implementation1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 5 months ago
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Makes your models act as textiled.32 forks/124 watchers/Pushed 6 months ago
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DO NOT USE THIS REPO - Development continued at http://github.com/torquebox/infinispan-ruby-client1 watcher/Pushed 7 months ago
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2 forks/3 watchers/Pushed 7 months ago
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Library for interacting with Eventbrite (renamed from Eventbright)8 forks/16 watchers/Pushed 8 months ago
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Minimal sane torquebox development environment.1 fork/2 watchers/Pushed 8 months ago
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Ruby on Rails CRM platform for Web 2.0 and beyond1 watcher/Pushed 10 months ago
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DO NOT USE: Development continued at https://github.com/torquebox/stompbox1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 11 months ago
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Tracks DHCP leases and allows users to claim devices and tie them to an individual user and then track usage5 forks/16 watchers/Pushed 11 months ago
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Boxgrinder appliance definitions and RPM spec files for building a TorqueBox AMI1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 12 months ago
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THIS HAS BEEN REPLACED/SUBSUMED BY Steam Cannon project http://steamcannon.org/2 forks/6 watchers/Pushed 14 months ago
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Framework for JavaScript Testing (currently a Rails Plugin)52 forks/552 watchers/Pushed 18 months ago
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NA Roofing Salesperson Portal1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 18 months ago
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Textmate bundle for RSpec.66 forks/245 watchers/Pushed 19 months ago
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A very simple and crude facsimile of CoolingTower2 forks/4 watchers/Pushed 19 months ago
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Static site-baking tool1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 20 months ago
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Workhorse Rails template used at ScullyTown4 forks/21 watchers/Pushed 21 months ago
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subtleTemplates is a MooTools Plugin which allows you to define a template in html itself and reuse it to populate dynamic data easily.3 forks/19 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Sets :host for url_for calls within ActionMailer. A repackaged and renamed version of http://github.com/luke0x/retardase_inhibitor2 forks/6 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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A simple capistrano recipe for setting-up a Rails server at Slicehost3 forks/11 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Standard authentication stack for Rails using Twitter to log in.56 forks/378 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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A simple Sinatra app for unwinding short urls.6 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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A little sinatra based web-service to convert eventbrite atom feeds to iCal1 fork/4 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Workhorse Rails template used at ScullyTown1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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Browse and Manage your data using browser1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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Rails 2.3 template file3 forks/4 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Listens to a twitter stream and routes matching updates to HTTP posts.1 fork/18 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Simply Unobtrusive Javascript2 forks/3 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Simply Unobtrusive Javascript1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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A way to access radiant page parts and snippets without layouts for putting content on other sites2 forks/9 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Locomotivity site redesign1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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A Rails project template, intended to keep app baselines up to date. Includes shoulda, mocha, factory_girl, Hoptoad, git rake tasks, cap recipes, etc.1 fork/1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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Javascript BDD integration for Ruby on Rails1 fork/13 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Twitter auto follow script5 forks/13 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Import snippets and page parts from a radiant installation8 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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A little Sinatra app that I'm using for my home page2 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Thresher4 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Uses Rails routing to make nice URLs so you get /books/oliver_twist instead of /books/12343 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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Greenthumbr.com source3 watchers/Pushed 2 years ago
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A simple javascript class that dynamically adds up the values of form fields and updates a "total" field.1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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Tracks DHCP leases and allows users to claim devices and tie them to an individual user and then track usage1 watcher/Pushed 2 years ago
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The one true yogamatic5 watchers/Pushed 3 years ago
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This plugin adds full text search capabilities and many other nifty features from Apache‘s Solr to any Rails model.77 forks/109 watchers/Pushed 3 years ago
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Ampersand by Amanda Palmer6 hours ago
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The Things That I Used To Do by G. Love & Special Sauce6 hours ago
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Stable Song by Death Cab for Cutie7 hours ago
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Little Twig by Neil Halstead7 hours ago
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