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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Off to Ruby DCamp
If you ‘re in the DC/NoVA region and you’ve always wanted to tell me what an idiot I am in person, now is your chance! I’ll be at Ruby DCamp over the weekend. I’ll probably be spending a lot of … Continue reading
Do you use a Real Editor?
I’m not going to tell you which editor you should use (Emacs). I’m not trying to feed the editor wars (Emacs 4evar!!!!1!!). I do think that every programmer that cares about productivity should use a Real Editor, though. I’ve thought … Continue reading
Posted in Tools
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Class Methods Considered Annoying
Challenge: given the following class, write a method #find_like_objects which will call the class method .find with attributes. class Foo attr_reader :attributes def initialize @attributes = { :bar => 42 } end def self.find(attributes) “Foo.find” end end Simple enough: class … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby
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I don’t care about your corporate perks
As my regular readers know, I’ve been a freelancer for around half a year now. Lately I’ve been thinking about what it would take to entice me back into full-time employment. Here’s what I came up with. I don’t care … Continue reading
