Bridging the Gap Between Designers and Programmers

The first time I noticed a “divide” in thinking between designers and programmers was at my old job as a print (mostly) graphic designer. A designer there knew that I was learning to code and asked to see something that I had written because…

Singleton Methods in Ruby

Anytime a developer says “Maybe this situation is a good use case for a singleton,” you’ll hear either shrieks or cheers depending on the past experience of the people in the room. “Singleton” can be a trigger word because if the “singleton” design pattern is implemented incorrectly…

Utilizing Ruby Keyword Arguments

The Ruby language is known for it’s flexibility. There aren’t many things that Ruby won’t let you do, whether that’s the ability to pass any data structure to any method or the ability to meta-program pretty much everything. If used unwisely, this flexibility can cause…

How to make sending and creating emails suck less with Ruby on Rails

And hopefully make you feel like you aren’t coding in the 90's