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Working With Wikileaks

I recently had the honor of speaking at a recent Hacks/Hackers meetup about working with the Wikileaks data. I talked about some of the work I had done with Sabrina Tavernise and Kevin Quealy looking at the sectarian violence in Baghdad during the occupation. Sabrina’s final story “Mix Of Trust And Despair Helped Turn Tide [ READ MORE ]

Another Twitter Talk

I’m not much of a blogger these days. Between my day job and some of its high-priority projects and my spare time at home with my family, including one rambunctious toddler, lengthy self-reflection is not often in the cards, especially since I blog there too! But I do twitter. A lot. Which makes sense, because [ READ MORE ]

Explaining Twitter

As regular readers might know, I’m a big fan of Twitter. Perhaps it’s my lamentably shrinking free time or the general state of fatigue that makes it hard for me to coerce sentences together into a coherent post, but it’s a lot easier for me to prolifically twitter about all the profound and mundane (okay, [ READ MORE ]

Rails Under the Knife

After months of rehearsing and revising, I finally gave the talk at OSCON. I think it could use another month of refinement, but people seemed to enjoy it, and I actually enjoyed giving it as well. If you were at the talk, thank you for coming and feel free to let me know if you [ READ MORE ]

Packaging Your First Gem With Hoe

My name is Jacob Harris, and I am a rubygem addict. I’d estimate I have hundreds of them tooling around on my hard drive, useful little snippets of Ruby or C library wrappers or random noodlings. I might not actually use most of them in any of my projects, but like a vast library of [ READ MORE ]

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