jmettraux.github.io
fear of a new line
http://jmettraux.github.io/2012-05-07-fear-of-a-new-line.html
Fear of a new line 2012-05-07. A friend made me a compliment the other day, describing my code as clean . I was fortunate to discover he referred both to its immediate appearance and to its structure. This post details the style as in Ruby style guide I’m following/expressing. Writing a blog post about the rest, the patterns, the design essence, this is too much for a blog post and, well, I still have much to learn. I’m one of those UNIX is my IDE bums, I’m using Vim. Consistent in following my style rul...
dev.scottw.com
Rescue Exception - Scott Watermasysk
http://dev.scottw.com/rescue-exception
Still Learning to Code. Details why you should never rescue Exception directly. A must read for every ruby developer. Also, as mentioned in the comments, Avdi Grimm’s. Is also highly recommended. Posted by Scott Watermasysk. Laquo; Reviewing Osfoora for Mac. Stop doing work you hate ».
martinfowler.com
Replacing Throwing Exceptions with Notification in Validations
http://martinfowler.com/articles/replaceThrowWithNotification.html
Replacing Throwing Exceptions with Notification in Validations. If you're validating some data, you usually shouldn't be using exceptions to signal validation failures. Here I describe how I'd refactor such code into using the Notification pattern. At the tag: refactoring. When to use this refactoring. Splitting the check method. Moving up the stack. I was recently looking at some code to do some basic validation of some incoming JSON messages. It looked something like this. Public void check() { if (dat...
worknicer.ca
Events Archive | Work Nicer
http://worknicer.ca/calendar
104;ello@worknicer.ca. Hudsons Canadian Tap House. 601 12 Ave SW, Calgary, AB. For seven years, Calgary's best and brightest in tech and digital design have been meeting for drinks. Sometimes there's cake.Agenda (give or take):5:30 - Mingle and be merry; 7:00 - Announcements; 7:10 - Beer. For seven years, Calgary’s best and brightest in tech and digital design have been meeting for drinks. Sometimes there’s cake. Agenda (give or take):. 5:30 – Mingle and be merry;. 7:00 – Announcements;. Evidence and ins...
railsrx.wordpress.com
noelrap | Rails Test Prescriptions Blog
https://railsrx.wordpress.com/author/noelrap
Rails Test Prescriptions Blog. Keeping Your Application Healthy Since 2008. On May 7, 2012. If you are reading this, you are looking at the old, WordPress version of this blog, and you should come visit me at http:/ www.noelrappin.com. Sorry for the inconvenience, all of your bookmarks should transfer to the new site in a day or so. However, if you subscribe to this site via RSS feed at the http:/ railsrx.com/feed. Thanks, and I hope you will come and visit. Setting Up Fast No-Rails Tests. On May 2, 2012.
skilldrick.co.uk
Skilldrick » Finding your passion
http://skilldrick.co.uk/2010/09/finding-your-passion
A blog about programming and related stuff by Nick Morgan. September 9th, 2010. Some time in the decade just gone I went to university to do Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister). And see his name on the inside. The best bits for me were the digital signal processing modules, where we’d mess about with digital audio in Matlab. About how the UK computer games industry was doing terribly. One line caught my eye:. I hadn’t done a computer science degree, but I thought to myself – I can learn C! Read it cov...
skilldrick.co.uk
Skilldrick » Closures vs Objects: FIGHT
http://skilldrick.co.uk/2011/09/closures-vs-objects-fight
A blog about programming and related stuff by Nick Morgan. Closures vs Objects: FIGHT. Closures vs Objects: FIGHT. September 23rd, 2011. In JavaScript, there are two main patterns for creating objects with state - plain JavaScript objects and closures. In this post I’m going to highlight the similarites and consider the pros and cons of the two approaches. Now, there are infinite variations to the above. I’m using native JavaScript constructors in the object version, but it doesn’t have t...Within the me...
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