Everybody in the Ruby community says they love pair programming. We often use it as a proxy for the awesomeness of a developer…
After coming back from RailsConf, I have some tips about speaking at conferences. Which isn’t really a comment on the speakers I saw — I think, overall, the quality of the speakers has improved noticeably over the years — but more along the the lines of tips for people getting started.
As you may know, I’m a, shall we say, older programmer, and as such I’ve developed very strong, quasi-rational opinions over details like indentation and parenthesis. I even wrote a Ruby Style Guide once. (I think I even still believe nearly all of it). And while, I’m…
Here’s a quiz: I went back to the online program for RailsConf 2008, which was the first one I attended.
Here are 20 talk titles. Some are from the 2008 program, some are from the 2016 program. Can you guess which is which?
There’s been some discussion this week about the TSA’s airport security randomizer app, which you probably remember as being that thing being held by a bored TSA agent that would point an arrow left or right to tell you which security line to go to.
