Things you Can’t do in Ruby
Ever since I have learned the Ruby language, I thought I can use it to program virtually anything. Well, I was wrong and I’d like to share this sad story with all of you.
Category: Coding
Programming Videos and Tutorials
How About Learning F***ing Programming?
At every software development conference, the rooms are filled with speakers wanting to teach you the newest framework or the hottest programming language.
Why Software Engineering is a Fake Discipline and What to do About It
Is the only measure of your worth as a developer *what* you do – the practices or processes you use? Or does it also matter *why* you do things that way – the reasoning and the evidence behind your decisions?
Getting Software Developers to Write Documentation
At Wufoo, everyone has to wear multiple hats in our company and that includes manning the inbox and doing customer support every single week. One of the interesting side effects of having a company where designers, developers and even the accountant writing documentation and answering support emails, is that everyone …
How to Argue About Code
None of us would be very good software developers if we never had arguments about The Best Way to Do Things. But I’ve had enough silly arguments about tabs-versus-spaces to last me the rest of my life. When should we stop arguing and start writing code?
Web Application Development Workflow
Iterating faster, avoiding bugs through tools, and improved automated testing are great ideas, but in this keynote presentation from HTML5DevConf, Google’s Paul Irish will show how to really incorporate them into a functional and realistic developer workflow. Additionally, Paul gives us an overview of Yeoman and shows how this set …