Articles by Category

Rails

10.28.2007 Rails Snippets
11.02.2007 Rails Snippets - 11/2
11.07.2007 Rails Snippets - 11/7
11.13.2007 Rails Snippets - 11/13
11.27.2007 Book Review: Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
11.20.2007 Book Review: Practical Rails Social Networking Sites
11.29.2007 Rails Snippets - 11/29
05.22.2005 Automatically Deploy Your Rails App to a Test Server
05.13.2005 Great Presentation on Ruby on Rails
06.24.2006 Relevance Announces Streamlined
07.18.2006 Markaby Is Beauty
08.16.2005 Django vs Rails
01.08.2009 Some Software Was Harmed in the Making of This Site
04.20.2009 A Collection of Great Tools for the Ruby Developer
06.09.2009 Generating Realistic Test Data With Ruby

Stuff I Like

04.07.2008 My Favorite New Site: Tripit
10.15.2009 The Tools I Use

Mac

05.29.2008 Cool OS X Application: Shelf
02.09.2008 Mac Question: What Books Should I Buy?
11.03.2007 Questions Before I Buy a MacBook Pro
11.11.2007 I Bought a MacBook Pro
11.21.2007 MacBook Pro After One Week
03.04.2006 Why Is It So Hard to Be Like Apple?

Career

05.22.2008 Specialists Need Not Apply
05.16.2008 The Two Kinds of Programmers
10.07.2007 Marc Andreesen on Career Planning
07.31.2006 5 Tips for Interviewing Well

Books

10.27.2007 What I've Been Reading
11.18.2005 Book Review - Ship It!
11.27.2007 Book Review: Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
11.20.2007 Book Review: Practical Rails Social Networking Sites
08.25.2006 What I'm Reading
09.17.2005 Don't Make Me Think - Second Edition

Technology

08.27.2005 MS Security Response
06.03.2008 In Defense of Twitter
11.27.2006 It Really Just Makes Me Want to Buy an iPod for Spite
08.30.2005 More on FireFox Tuning
01.15.2006 Things I Want to Own Someday Just to Say I Did
02.18.2006 Interactive Touchscreen Demo
03.04.2006 Why Is It So Hard to Be Like Apple?
05.18.2005 Backpack API
05.30.2005 Exporting a Database Schema in MySQL
06.23.2006 Montastic Is Fantastic
08.28.2005 Speed Up Firefox
08.30.2006 Partitioning Databases in PostgreSQL
01.08.2009 Some Software Was Harmed in the Making of This Site
01.10.2009 The Coming Decline of Rss and Atom
02.02.2009 A Brief Introduction to the Arduino
02.09.2009 The Programmable Government
10.15.2009 The Tools I Use

Programming

05.22.2008 Specialists Need Not Apply
05.16.2008 The Two Kinds of Programmers
11.04.2005 Great Languages Are Intuitive
11.08.2005 PostgreSQL Tools
11.18.2005 Book Review - Ship It!
11.20.2005 Dating Rules for Software
03.14.2006 Ruby Is a Titanium Mountain Bike
04.20.2006 Web Standards in a Nutshell
05.18.2005 Backpack API
08.12.2005 World's Hardest to Debug Programming Language
08.30.2006 How to Make Sortable Tables in Textile
09.24.2005 Wil Shipley on Unit Testing (and Why He's Wrong)
02.09.2009 The Programmable Government

Interviews

01.02.2008 Interview: Geoffrey Grosenbach on PeepCode, Entrepreneurship, and Making Book Publishing Easier
12.19.2007 Interview: Peter Cooper on Rails, Entrepreneurship, and Developing on Linux
12.18.2007 Coming Soon: Interviews
01.14.2009 Interview: Mike Rohde - Designer, Blogger, Sketchnote Artist

Administrivia

01.03.2009 Welcome to the New Site
10.28.2006 Apparently, I'm a Joiner

Links

05.21.2005 Web Design and Development Links
07.22.2007 Random Things
05.27.2008 Links for 5/27/2008
04.02.2008 Links for 4/2
01.30.2008 Links for 1/29/08
10.09.2005 Finding Inspiration
10.31.2006 Links for 10/31/06
10.28.2007 Rails Snippets
10.31.2007 Rails Snippets - 10/31
11.07.2005 Links for 11/7
11.08.2005 PostgreSQL Tools
11.02.2007 Rails Snippets - 11/2
11.07.2007 Rails Snippets - 11/7
11.13.2007 Rails Snippets - 11/13
11.29.2007 Rails Snippets - 11/29
12.03.2005 Micro-business Links
06.24.2006 6/23 Ruby & Rails Links
06.26.2006 6/25 Random Links
07.08.2006 Links for 7/6
08.06.2005 Links for 8/6
07.20.2006 Links for 7-19
08.11.2005 Links for 8/10
08.28.2005 Links for 8/27
08.24.2006 Links for 8/24
08.28.2006 Links for 8/28
08.04.2007 Links for 8/4
09.18.2006 Links for 9/18

Inspiration

08.05.2006 Quote(s) of the Day
10.09.2005 Finding Inspiration
11.30.2005 Just Do It
11.18.2006 Seth Godin: The Best Time to Start
11.01.2007 SEED Conference Recap
04.22.2006 Why I Want to Have Seth Godin's Babies
06.08.2006 More Seth Godin
08.11.2005 Passion Reviews
08.06.2007 Paul Graham on "Stuff"
09.14.2005 Basecamp Talk on ITConversations

Learning

05.25.2008 Video Lectures

Questions

02.09.2008 Mac Question: What Books Should I Buy?
01.06.2008 Monday Question: What Is Your Development Machine?
01.21.2008 Monday Question: What Music Do You Code By?
01.28.2008 Monday Question: What Is Your Text Editor, and Why?
11.05.2007 Monday Question: What Are You Reading?
11.12.2007 Monday Question: How Do You Choose What Technologies to Explore?
11.26.2007 Monday Question: Who Are You and Why Are You Here
11.19.2007 Monday Question: What Technologies Are You Exploring?
12.03.2007 Monday Question: What Are Your 3 Favorite Technical Sites?
12.10.2007 Monday Question: What Books Changed Your Life?
12.17.2007 Monday Question: What Source Code Management System Do You Use, and Why?

Ruby

11.04.2005 Great Languages Are Intuitive
11.27.2007 Book Review: Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
08.18.2005 Python vs Ruby
08.30.2006 How to Make Sortable Tables in Textile
02.02.2009 A Brief Introduction to the Arduino
04.20.2009 A Collection of Great Tools for the Ruby Developer
06.09.2009 Generating Realistic Test Data With Ruby

Productivity

06.01.2005 Endless Tinkering
12.22.2005 The Power of Lists

Management

01.28.2006 How to Integrate Remote Employees
11.18.2005 Book Review - Ship It!
08.23.2006 Salaries: Keep Them Secret or Make Them Public?
09.10.2005 Moving From Doing to Managing

Humor

01.29.2006 Chuck Norris Facts
12.05.2006 Surely This Is a Sign of the Apocalypse
06.23.2006 Metaphors and Analogies
08.28.2005 Robert Scoble Is Not Right in the Head

Innovation

10.24.2005 Dean Kamen on Innovation

Entrepreneurship

10.28.2006 David Galbraith on Sustainable Business Models
11.18.2006 Seth Godin: The Best Time to Start
11.01.2007 SEED Conference Recap
12.03.2005 Micro-business Links
04.22.2006 Why I Want to Have Seth Godin's Babies
06.10.2005 Seth Godin on Small Companies
06.08.2006 More Seth Godin
06.26.2006 6/25 Random Links
09.14.2005 Basecamp Talk on ITConversations

Fun

10.29.2005 Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?
08.06.2007 Fake Steve Jobs Outed
09.01.2005 KEXP

Personal

10.27.2007 SEED Conference
11.18.2006 A Change in Perspective
04.21.2006 American's Commutes Keep Getting Longer

Design

11.10.2006 Free Web Design Resources
03.04.2006 Why Is It So Hard to Be Like Apple?
08.20.2005 Color for Coders
09.17.2005 Don't Make Me Think - Second Edition
01.14.2009 Interview: Mike Rohde - Designer, Blogger, Sketchnote Artist

Arduino

02.02.2009 A Brief Introduction to the Arduino

Curiosities

Coming soon.

About

The Curiosity Project is the personal site of Larry Wright, a 30-something technologist. I live in the town of Normal, Illinois with my wife and three children. I have diverse interests, including Ruby on Rails, Agile development methodologies, design, and entrepeneurship. You'll find a little bit of everything here, but mostly technology and business stuff. The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of any employer - past or present. Read more

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