February 2011
2 posts
Ruby sees Objects & Blocks not messages &...
it may not be the fight of the century but one of the things Friz’ post reminded me of was Katz blog post last year
Ruby is NOT a Callable Oriented Language (It’s Object Oriented)
Hopefully Fritz will not take this as an indictment or assertion that he is unaware of proc & block behavior under the hood. Still I know I have reached for messaging composed structures as a default with...
tenderlove gist o the day
January 2011
4 posts
Composing Objects with Ruby
Those who know me from the NYC Ruby meetup, my consulting, or open source efforts know that I hold a candle for the Haskell Programming language. I learned the basics of Haskell around the time I was trying to make sense of some really bizarre javascript. Haskell gave me an epiphany experience in understanding Functional composition. It also came at exactly the right moment, at the beginnings of...
One of Ruby's strongest traits as a language is...
Nick Fitzgerald, posted a nice piece on object oriented code on new years eve 2010. Yes he was blogging about programming on NYE. Whats perhaps more telling is I tweeted and read it as it came out.
One of the reasons I was happy to see a OO post on Ruby is the rarity. In our weekly meetup we don’t cover it enough. I think this is because seasoned Rubyists assume to have a working...
December 2010
4 posts
fine print
In a previous life before I was invested in the Ruby community, and before my life as a Java Enterprise Consultant I was a Linux and Free Software activist moonlighting as a Unix System Administrator. After seeing the same arguments on IRC channels recycled ad infinitum I may have become as jaded as Statler or Waldorf, but I still believe.
Ruby makes me giddy after a stint as the Senior Portal...
cravin some tuna?
Last weekend I participated in another hackfest this time centered on the venn diagram intersection of Food and Technology. There were some great people there with great ideas that would improve the health and lifestyles of new yorkers. But I just wanted one thing that no food site has been able to deliver to me yet. Decent search results for restaurant food.. not restaurants but the actual...
November 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
2 posts
secrets of the software conference pros
Have you ever been at a development conference and been struck by the developers command of the command line. Not to say that they are all snake oil and high equity mortgage salesman but most of them use a bit of *nix illusion. The trick to pulling this of is to record your bash session with something like the script or ttyrec commands. If your on debian or ubuntu you likely still...
rails 3 generators hand-rolled edition
Annoyed that rails 3 did none of the radical change of guard changes to default options? I know i was. Luckily its trivial to make right.
You can follow along by creating a new rails 3 application
rails new hand-rolled
At the end of the config/application.rb file add replacements
config.generators do |g|
g.orm :active_record
g.template_engine :erb
g.test_framework :rspec, :fixture...