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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Sustainable Development in Ruby, Part 2: Method Injection
Sometimes you have a need for an object method which the class author did not foresee. For instance, in our “previous installment”:http://avdi.org/devblog/2008/03/27/sustainable-development-in-ruby-part-1-good-old-fashioned-inheritance/, we used the following code to accumulate packets until an ending packet was found: class BufferedConnection < FMTP::Connection … Continue reading
Sustainable Development in Ruby, Part 1: Good Old-Fashioned Inheritance
The first technique we’ll look at in this series is something so basic it may not even seem worth spelling out. But sometimes old-school techniques are overlooked in the excitement of a young language. Let’s use as our example a … Continue reading
The Pipe Cleaner Gang
My stepson is a budding artist, and pipe cleaners are his medium of choice these days. I recently changed seats at work, and the new location is more conducive to displaying the creations he has entrusted to me. So I … Continue reading
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Tagged art, decor, diversions, hacks, homestar runner, mst3k, office, pipecleaners
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Sustainable Development in Ruby: Introduction
This is the beginning of a series of posts on sustainable development in Ruby. No, I’m not talking about writing code on wind-powered laptops while sipping fair-trade coffee. But the sustainable development movement has a fairly direct analog in software … Continue reading
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Doctor, it hurts when you say that
bq. In your response, for instance, you say “I prefer thinking before writing code.” Well, so do I, but the fact of the matter is some people don’t and some people make mistakes based on inexperience or ignorance even when … Continue reading
