Featured Shirts from T-Shirt Tuesday

OpenID is great.  You have one username and one password for everything.  Which means They only need to steal your password once to hack your life.  Be Afraid.  Be Very Afraid.

The Open ID Advantage

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Tags: openid, steal, password, sso, single sign-on, smack

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Some enterprisey processes are heavy on the aiming.  The problem is that they spend so much time aiming, they never hit the target.  Agile practices let you fire and then adjust your aim so you can quickley fire again.  You can hit your target.

Ready Fire Aim

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Tags: fire, aim, agile, practices, enterprisey

Declare it to the world!  Great frameworks are extracted, not created.  Get that warm fuzzy feeling from spreading the good word to everyone you meet.

Great Frameworks Are Extracted

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Tags: rails, frameworks, design, smack, educate

A simple usability test can do wonders for improving a website.  Volunteer your services to make the net a more usable place.

Fix Their Website

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Tags: web site, programming, design, usability, testing, one liner

You've been on Enterprisey projects before.  You know Rails is better.  Make sure your team knows that if they were using Rails, they'd be done by now.

project = done if rails?

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Tags: project, done, rails, smack, programming, one liner, edit

Show the power of rails validations while demonstrating that tests are built into the rails framework helping you to find and destroy bugs before they get to your users.

Validates Absence Of Bugs

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Tags: testing, rails, validation, bugs, one liner

Don't you wish everyone had this option?  Wear this subtle message and your day is sure to go faster.

[Skip Intro]

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Tags: flash, skip, smack

Super coders know that they can gain super power from using wikis.  Wikis help your team communicate knowledge and collaborate effectively.  Help educate those that don't understand the power of wikis.

Wiki Power

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Tags: wiki, educate, power, communicate

You’re a hero to your kids. Why not let ‘em share your coding heroics with the neighbors? Just think of the conversation starter it will be at your next company picnic. Guess you’d better live up to it, huh?

My Dad Codes Better Than Your Dad

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Tags: dad, smack, coder, kids

You've been around the block.  You've been on projects which have misused session EJBs, and flirted dangerously with replicated session data.  You know better.  You know that the Share Nothing architecture has proven itself.  Tell it to the world.

I Share Nothing

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Tags: architecture, design, educate, rails

Rails developers claim that they are 10 times more productive.  Imagine how much extra time that can leave you to spend with your significant other.  Do your part to help improve the social lives of those around you.

Spend More Time With Your Honey

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Tags: ruby, rails, time, social life, girlfriend, smack

Let people know that they can take there entepriseyness elsewhere.  Help stamp out this cancer for the betterment of the world.

No Enterprisey Allowed

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Tags: enterprisey, educate

You know its going to be an ok meeting when this statement is true.

Validates Food

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Tags: rails, food, validation, mettings, one liner

While writing an application do you think about the users?  Is the application designed to make their life easier?  Do you solicit their feedback?  Do you convert the words

I am user-centric

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Tags: usability, training, educate, design

If you aren't DRY you are all wet.  As a programmer, take the time to make sure that you don't repeat yourself.  Remember to refactor, script, and resuse.

DRY

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Tags: agile, pragmatic, educate, programming

Sometimes you need to state the obvious.  You are an ALL-STAR and the world deserves to know.

All-star Coder

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Tags: all-star, coder, programming, confidence

Sometimes builds break, and when they do people often look for a scapegoat.  Make sure you provide them with one - whoever happens to be standing next to you.

He Broke The Build

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Tags: build, broken, cruisecontrol, blame, ant, maven, team, punishment, agile, continuous integration

Some people still haven't seen the light.  Maybe this will help them quit their bad browsing habits and move to nicer web standards and CSS support.

Still Using IE?

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Tags: ie, browser, smack

Pair Programming has many advantages.  Help publicize this practice.  As a bonus, you can find out who can count in binary.

Pair Programming

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Tags: agile, xp, pair programming, educate

Test Driven Development is a discipline that can help you write quality code.  Help to remind everyone that code is guilty until proven innocent.

All Code Is Guilty

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Tags: testing, agile, code, programming, educate

Well, they have done it again and the build is broken.  Try to help them be more careful next time with some good old fashioned lines.  They worked in gradeschool - maybe they can work for grown programmers.

I Will Not Break The Build

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Tags: build, break, cruisecontrol, ant, maven, team, punishment, continuous integration

Everyone has a special place in their heart for the guy that created Rails.  Now the world can know your true feelings.

I Heart DHH

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Tags: dhh, rails, fan, funny, heart

Display your state of mind, or your admiration for one of the ways that an elegant Ruby construct combined with Rails makes life easier for developers.

Method Missing

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Tags: ruby, method, missing, magic, rails, programming, code, one liner