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Monthly Archives: July 2009
“80% of men never noticed anything”
Brief thoughts on this presentation: This is a great presentation. The use of Kirk/Spock slash art is inspired The idea of 60kloc generated mostly by newbie programmers scares the crap out of me. It sounds like the women-dominated projects aren’t … Continue reading
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Recursively Symbolize Keys
Given a YAML stream that looks like this: — drinks: martini: garnish: olive gibson: garnish: onion The Ruby-fied version looks like this: {“drinks”=>{“gibson”=>{“garnish”=>”onion”}, “martini”=>{“garnish”=>”olive”}}} But we don’t like string keys, we like symbol keys. A number of libraries exist to … Continue reading
Hire Ken Grimm
A little over ten years ago my dad helped me get my first software job, and it’s only right that I return the favor. Ken Grimm, my father, is one of the most talented engineers I know. Now and then … Continue reading
