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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Stop reading this blog and learn something
Software development is a wonderful field to be a noob in. Perhaps more than any other discipline, there is a wealth of information available for free online–everything from fundamental computer science courses, to the night-by-night learning notes of a master … Continue reading
Systems Programming in the Cloud
Tim Bray has an article up about static versus dynamic languages, and why he finds the static ones less annoying for Android programming than for web programming. It’s a good article. Something I’ve noticed over the past few years of … Continue reading
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End your OOP Confusion with the Design Pattern Classifier
The Ruby community has seen a renaissance of interest in classic Object-Oriented thinking lately. We’re talking about Presenters, and DCI, and Data Objects. But with these new discussions come new problems. Namely: the dreaded pattern terminology debate. He says it’s a Decorator. … Continue reading
Fancy GitHub Authentication with Omniauth
Configuring Omniauth for GitHub authentication is easy enough. But I needed to optionally add extra permissions to the authentication token. I eventually figured it out, but since I had to piece the steps together from various sources, I thought I’d … Continue reading
Another Take on Smalltalk-Style Controll Flow (SBPP #6)
The latest Smalltalk-to-Ruby translation in my SBPPRB archive is “Dispatched Interpretation”. It’s one of the bigger ones I’ve tackled so far. I’m not going to go over the whole pattern here; for that you’ll just need to buy a copy … Continue reading
Object Oriented Programming Books
A few people have asked for recommendations of good foundational Object Oriented Programming texts. The truth is I’m kind of behind on my formal OOP reading, and some of the early texts I read I wouldn’t recommend. My first proper OOP book was … Continue reading
Testing that a block is called
CapnKernul asks: Hey Avdi. How would you test that a method’s provided block is called in RSpec? Would you stub #to_proc (for &block) and mock #call? Typically the way I test that a block is called goes something like this: … Continue reading
