Mike Perham

On Ruby, software and the Internet

Entries Tagged as 'Personal'

Design and Tufte

February 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve been customizing the WordPress theme for this blog a little bit recently and been following Edward Tufte’s rules in Visual Display of Quantitative Information (which is a highly recommended read for any technologist). The rule which struck me most directly was Minimize non-data ink. In other words, let the content stand for [...]

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Housekeeping

February 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Since I started this blog a few months ago, I’ve been cringing inside every time I see it and I’ll tell you why: I dislike default configurations. Invariably I want to tweak, tune or, if you’ll excuse the hip lingo, pimp everything I touch, especially if it involves software. This includes the theme [...]

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Great Moments in Ruby History?

December 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I would think that this is not one of them.

For those not in the know, that’s Marcel Molina, Rails core committer and avowed disco enthusiast, on the left.

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Mirror, mirror

November 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

On the wall, who’s the fairest Rubyist of them all?

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RubyConf pictures

November 6th, 2007 · No Comments

I didn’t take many pictures at RubyConf but what few I did take are now available for your perusal.  Enjoy.
http://www.perham.net/mike/gallery/v/rubyconf2007/

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Welcome Aboard

September 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This blog holds my thoughts on software, technology and all things Internety.

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