It is that time of year where we reflect on the accomplishments of the passing year and look forward to the one to come. Here is a window into the past year in technology through this year’s popular posts on TechKnow Juixe.
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Laws of Source Code and Software Development
Repetative Recursion
Technology and Politics
Being a Better Rails [...]
David Heinemeier Hansson, commonly referred as DHH, is a polarizing programmer with a self professed fucking potty-mouth. He is opinionated and uncensored. He is a world renowned hater, he hates big enterprise software, large startup valuations, and apple pie. The web development framework he fashioned after himself is as opinionated and know-it-all [...]
Recently, I gave myself the small task of going through all my Twitter retries and downloading each profile image from each Twitter user that replied to me. To access my Twitter replies I used the Twitter Ruby Gem. I am using Twitter gem version 0.4.1.
The script is small and pretty concise that it [...]
When working with Ruby, the library/class I use and abuse most often is YAML. YAML stands for YAML Ain’t Markup Language and it is a versatile human friendly data serialization format. It is easier to use and understand than JSON.
A YAML file is much like a Java properties file in that is used [...]
Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of August 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog.
Ruby
Ruby5 Podcast – Episode #1
Ruby Hoedown 2009 Wrap-Up
Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript
Compiling Ruby: From Text to Bytecode
Ruby’s Metaprogramming Toolbox
Teaching Ruby to High School Girls
Introducing Pedant, [...]
Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of July 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog.
Ruby
The Great Ruby IDE Smackdown of ‘09
Three Years of Real-World Ruby
Python vs Ruby
Python’s Beards and Ruby’s “Cool” Guys
The Ruby Programming Language
An example of why Ruby is no [...]