Programming Videos and Tutorials
As the size of our Ruby on Rails applications grow, so does the complexity. We’ll cover some common mistakes encountered in Rails and how to avoid them. Antipatterns are what people use whenever best practices are ignored. Learn how to identify when you’re using them and improve your Ruby code.
There is no shortage of projects that necessitate our ingenuity in the software development industry. Unfortunately, although we all have moments of being lit up with creativity, often the time of being in the state of productive creative flow is all too short, and our projects suffer for it.
In most disciplines built on skill and knowledge, from art to architecture, from creative writing to structural engineering, there is a strong emphasis on studying existing work. Exemplary pieces from past and present are examined and discussed in order to provoke thinking and learn techniques for the present and the …
Why are people programming applications in languages other than Java? Can I really be productive with another language? Which language should I choose? Why would I use more than one?
Ruby is one of the best object-oriented languages around. Ubiquitous objects, duck-typing, mixins, expressive syntax with low ceremony, powerful reflection and metaprogramming. But Ruby has a mixed heritage that incorporates functional and procedural models along with OOP. This flexibility provides many options for how to solve problems, but it can …
This is the presentation of the software developer that suffers from Type II BiPolar and ADHD. It’s not something we talk about, but BiPolar, depression, and ADHD runs rampant in the software development community – they tend to correlate with higher intelligence.
