On RubyTapas, I occasionally need to demonstrate web application code. I often use little Sinatra apps for this purpose, because it allows me to illustrate a web app programming concept with all the usual features like routing, sessions, and templates without switching between lots of different files. When I do this, I also like the […]
What would Feynman do? – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs One of the most entertaining software development articles I’ve read in a long time. tags: development feynman No one I know at Microsoft asks those godawful "lateral-thinking puzzle" interview questions anymore. Maybe someone still does, I don’t know. But rumour […]
ClassNamer An automatic class name generator. I named all the classes in NoneSuch using this handy tool. tags: development io_splice – zero-copy pipe I/O for Linux and Ruby Nifty technique for high-performance IO tags: development linux ruby io The splice family of Linux system calls can transfer data between file descriptors without the need to […]
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 is implemented. tags: development ruby rails patterns view model conductor presenter conducer Glenn Vanderburg on […]
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 this RFC, you might be surprised at what you don’t know about HTTP. I keep […]
A developer notebook on applying classic Object-Oriented principles to Ruby on Rails projects.
