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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Ruby++, or why post-increment is tricky
David Brady mentioned that he’d dropped my name to Uncle Bob, so obviously I had to go watch the video. The whole call—in which David picks Bob’s brain about SOLID, and Bob laughs a lot—is fun and worth watching. I … Continue reading
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Linkdump #3
Conduce From Ara T. Howard, "a model+view component for rails that combines the conductor and presenter pattern via a model capable of generating view-centric methods". A single Gist which is interesting both for what it does, and for the way it … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged cohesion, concurrency, conductor, links, patterns, producer, rest, ruby
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Screencast: Why Keyboard Macros are Awesome
Back in September I made the assertion that every programmer should be familiar with an editor that can record keyboard macros, even if it’s not the only editor they use. The other day I recorded a little video demonstrating why … Continue reading
Contest: Your reply to NoneSuch
Folks seem to have gotten a kick out of NoneSuch. I thought it was particularly cool how many people opted to play along. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m giving a talk at the upcoming Day Camp 4 … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Presentations
Tagged contests, humor, nonesuch, Telecommuting
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How to be a “Dirty Harry” programmer
How often have you heard and/or told this story? Right before the project started I’d seen some blog posts about Tool X and I really wanted to give it a try. So I talked the other developers into using Tool … Continue reading
NoneSuch: The Greatest Ruby Gem EVAR
I am very proud to announce a brand new, incredibly cool Ruby gem: NoneSuch. Here’s a short video to introduce it. UPDATE: Got a NoneSuch success story? A disastrous failure story? Enter the contest and win a ticket to Day Camp 4 … Continue reading
REST Resources
From time to time people ask me questions about RESTful architecture. I thought it might be helpful to list the resources that I keep near at hand for asnwering tricky REST questions. Standards: RFC2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol: If you haven’t read … Continue reading
“Exceptional Ruby” Video and Beta eBook!
Two weeks ago at Magic Ruby in Orlando I delivered a talk called “Exceptional Ruby”, about working with exceptions and failures in Ruby. People seemed to like it. I have two related announcements today: A self-made video of the talk … Continue reading
I’m speaking at RubyNation and Red Dirt Ruby Conf
I’m very pleased to announce that my talk proposals have been accepted for RubyNation 2011 and Red Dirt Ruby Conf 2011! My speaking schedule as of today: March 5th: Speaking on “The Well-Equippd Remote Worker’ at the Day Camp 4 … Continue reading
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Thank You, Magic Ruby!
Thanks for all the kind comments on my Exceptional Ruby talk! A few notes for those visiting because of the talk: References, source code, links to further reading, and yes, slides can be found here: Exceptional Ruby Notes. Please review … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences
Tagged conferences, errors, exceptions, failures, magicruby, ruby, talks
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