Benjamin Darfler

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Inside HyperLevelDB

More details on the HyperLevelDB improvements.

James Somers – Web developer money

An interesting and introspective take on the web developer compensation and value.

People aren’t listening to you. Maybe you need a little influence?

Leading by influence trumps leading by force any day of the week.

Struct.new

Oh, like Scala case classes.

Workflow with yeoman grunt and bower

JavaScript tooling is really coming into its own with generators, dependency management and build tools.

Plucking Multiple Columns in Rails 3

For when you just want a few columns and not a whole model.

Engineering Elegance: The Secrets of Square's Stack

This is about as close as anyone has come to my views on software engineering.

You Cannot Win Engineering

Focus on your team and you all get to be awesome together.

Reviewing HyperLevelDB - Compactions

A bit of a dive into the changes that HyperDex made to LevelDB

5 Stages of Culture

Something to strive for.

Scrum-ban

A great article on transitioning from Scrum to Kanban.

Stop Starting, Start Finishing. Unfinished Work is Debt

Use the process for attacking your credit debt to attack your unfinished work debt.

Managing self-organizing teams

Great tips. Get out of the way, offer help where you can.

ning/jvm-compressor-benchmark

Great shootout for various JVM compression libraries

High Performance Rails (long edition)

Use Rails less and cache, cache, cache