Monthly Archives: July 2012

Define Conversion Protocols in Ruby

Posted on
July 24, 2012

by
Avdi Grimm

In this excerpt from “Confident Ruby”, I talk about mimicking Ruby’s own “implicit conversion protocols” in your own code. Continue reading →

Posted in Ruby | Tagged confident-ruby, idioms, ruby | 5 Comments

Letter to Steven Aldrich of Outright, re: GoDaddy Acquisition

Posted on
July 19, 2012

by
Avdi Grimm

This the text of an email I sent to the CEO of Outright, a financial tracking service I’ve been using for a few months, on learning they’d been acquired by GoDaddy. Not strictly coding related; but I thought since it … Continue reading →

Posted in Business | 13 Comments

Stepping off the ledge

Posted on
July 9, 2012

by
Avdi Grimm

A few weeks ago my “primary” contract came to an end. Some interesting things happened after that: I found the time to get started on Confident Ruby, the book I’d been putting off for months. I also started selling early … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 21 Comments