@skorks

Software developer, web, ruby, vim. Reader. Blogger. Like to build stuff. Don't take things too seriously.

 Melbourne, Australia
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Joined July 2009
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Verifying myself: I am skorks on Keybase.io. HJAZnWI8rZURYUj7-_OClJbbh7UXfAHRBu3U / keybase.io/skorks/sigs/HJAZn…
Wrote an article about some open source we made :) - Service Objects With Rails Using Aldous code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/…
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The Tuts+ Translation Project Is Working, and I Have Graphs to Prove It webdesign.tutsplus.com/artic… via @tutsplus

Web Design Courses and Tutorials | Envato Tuts+

Thousands of free tutorials and online courses to help you learn web design. Join our community of students and professionals to improve your design skills, coding chops, and workflow. What would you...

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The last article of my New Relic series on Tuts+, on server monitoring :) code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/…

Using New Relic to Monitor Your Servers

A running application is not just a bunch of code, the code also has to run somewhere. I am talking about your production servers. It is just as important to ensure that your production boxes are...

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Made me lol. Only hackers will understand :-)
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Read our newest blog post! @reybango shares his thoughts on slowing down the web developer’s hamster wheel - enva.to/1hHna8x
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Check out @skorks newest tut on New Relic & PHP: How to Use New Relic With PHP & WordPress enva.to/1ktDY37
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sidekiq 3.0 is out, looks like a nice set of changes, if you're not using sidekiq you should, it's awesome mikeperham.com/2014/03/28/si…

Sidekiq 3.0!

After tons of work on Sidekiq 2.x for the last 18 months, I decided it was time for some deeper refactoring and cleanup necessitating a major version bump. Sidekiq 3.0 is the result of three months...

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Why almost everything you've been told about unhealthy foods is wrong theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

Why almost everything you've been told about unhealthy foods is wrong

Joanna Blythman: Eggs and red meat have both been on the nutritional hit list – but after a major study last week dismissed a link between fats and heart disease, is it time for a complete rethink?

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@KaterinaSimms be home soon, only a few hours
@KaterinaSimms go us! :O
@KaterinaSimms Does that mean I am now I am aware of the marketing message :P
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A New Relic for Android tutorial by yours truly :P code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/… #android
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Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men - written in the 1920s but still relevant today en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_I…

Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men - Wikisource, the free online library

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'Free trade' explained in pictures. If you ever thought someone is swindling us, you're right economixcomix.com/home/tpp/ #money #economy
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Why It Pays to Write Tutorials blog.tutsplus.com/post/79240…
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Limited-Edition Tuts+ Tees teespring.com/tuts
My article on New Relic custom dashboards up on Tuts, that makes 4 New Relic articles and counting dev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/h…

How to Use New Relic Custom Dashboards & Why You'd Want To

Today we're going to look at New Relic custom dashboards. Specifically, I will show you three ways that I tend to use custom dashboards: creating an overview dashboard from existing...

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The longest quote is from me - winning :P inside.envato.com/good-progr…
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And another one of my articles up on Tuts+ :) - Writing Robust Web Applications - The Lost Art of Exception Handling dev.tutsplus.com/articles/wr…
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