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Curtis is a Ruby on Rails developer and co-founder of Flatterline, a kick ass web development company in Phoenix, Arizona. He blogs at Millarian, tweets @curtism and is active in the Phoenix tech community. When not working from home, you can often find him at local Phoenix coworking spaces or downtown coffee shops. Check his location through Foursquare or Brightkite.

Phoenix Startups: Register with CrunchBase

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Encouraging Phoenix startups and Phoenix entrepreneurs to add themselves to CrunchBase to provide better insight into companies in the Phoenix area....

Quick Tip: Rails Named Bind Variables

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Shows how to use named bind variables in a Ruby on Rails query to increase readability and reduce duplication....

Quick Tip: Cucumber Works-in-Progress

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Explains how to use the Cucumber tagging feature to tag scenarios. Once tagged, they can be run separately....

Quick Tip: Rails Singularization of -ess

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How to handle singularization of words like business and address through custom inflection rules in Ruby on Rails....

Fixing Multipart Uploads in Rack for Ruby 1.9

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Describes how to patch your Rack installation after seeing a invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII error....

Challenge Yourself to Create Better Relationships… Offline

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I challenge you to spend some time building relationships in real life instead of focusing solely on virtual relationships....

Rails link_to and HTML options

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Just a small thing, but I needed to know how to do this and it took me a while to find. Hopefully this will help someone else out. In HTML, we might...

Trimming the Fat from your Social Media Diet

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I describe my current process for keeping relevant people close while removing the irrelevant ones. Start trimming....

Quick Tip: Override Rails Generated URLs

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A quick tip to override the default Ruby on Rails generated URLs for a resource. It is a quick and simple way to change your URLs without changing your code....

Building a Strong Company Culture

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Netflix describes their current approach to company culture....