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haiku.rb—Timeless

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Written by Magnus Holm. It was first introduced. By Why The Lucky Stiff in 2005 with this wonderful haiku:. Greasygreasy followed up with this:. M didn’t want miss the party:. U Nakamura came up with a genius one:. Evan Weaver sort of created one:. A silly one I wrote a few years ago:. Evan Short][falling] wrote a bit about falling (not technically a haiku, but I’m not very picky when it comes to awesome code):. A bit about falling #. Hits the ground from. If we can assume that the. Then we can say.

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Block Helpers in Rails 3—Timeless

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Block Helpers in Rails 3. Written by Magnus Holm. In May 2010 I attended Frozen Rails. In Helsinki where Carl Lerche held a talk about Rails 3. Like everything else regarding Rails 3 it wasn’t a. Talk, but I rather found myself nodding Yep, that’s a better solution every now and then (which after all is the whole idea of Rails 3). This shows the regular usage of block helpers in Rails 2.3:. Block called from erb? Block called from erb? If the method was called inside of ERB, it automagically concats the ...

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Timeless—Timeless

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Written by Magnus Holm. Welcome to Timeless, a community blog with focus on. I started my first technical blog in Feburary 2008 and have been blogging infrequently since then. As time has passed by, I’ve discovered that a blog is a surprisingly. Way to present technical content, both for the author and the reader. Timeless is an attempt at creating a new kind of blog with a focus on frequently updated, quality content which lasts longer than the beta of your favourite framework. The Meaning of a Blog Post.

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Charging Objects in Ruby—Timeless

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Charging Objects in Ruby. Written by Magnus Holm. Today we’ll explore a not so widely used feature in Ruby: overriding the the unary operators for fun and profit:. This script applies to every page:. Http:/ timeless.judofyr.net/*". Except the front page:. Http:/ timeless.judofyr.net/". Http:/ timeless.judofyr.net/changelog/*". And only HTML files:. Do funky thing with the HTML. Let’s have a look at this and a few other tricks you can do by overriding the unary operators. Let’s fire up IRB and see:. So ho...

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Abstraction Creep—Timeless

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Written by Magnus Holm. Abstractions are very powerful when you’re writing software. You don’t want to write your web applications in assembly, or an operating system in JavaScript for that matter. Choosing the right abstraction makes you focus on the real challenges and lets you forget the insignificant details. Not all abstractions are perfect. Some are leaky; some are just plain stupid. But wait! We can just introduce an abstraction on top of that, right? Me if something is unclear. Tests; only testin...

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Morse—Timeless

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Written by Magnus Holm. Some of you might have noticed my little attempt on refactoring. However, I quickly realized that it could be solved in a much simpler way:. End def self.decode(str) str.split(. M=C[m])& m.chr}.join end self.methods(false). map{ m class self;self;end. send(:define method,m " file"){ f File.readlines(f).map{ l send(m,l)}.join $/} M = -. 2016 All content is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

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JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn't—Timeless

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JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn't. Written by Magnus Holm. From Wikipedia’s article on JSON. JSON was based on a subset of the JavaScript scripting language. All JSON-formatted text is also syntactically legal JavaScript code. JSON is a subset of JavaScript. All these years we’ve heard it over and over again: JSON is a JavaScript subset . Guess what? They’re wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. You see, the devil’s in the details, and there’s no way to avoid it: Not. SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL.

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Copy Paste—Timeless

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Written by Magnus Holm. Stick this in your .irbrc:. Evaluate the code on the clipboard. And then add one of these:. Http:/ gist.github.com/124272. Thanks to Bjørn Arild Mæland. 2016 All content is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Mockup-Driven Development—Timeless

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Written by Magnus Holm. Design in web development is usually accomplished in three main steps:. Mockup-Driven Development attempts to merge the last two in order to make it easier to build. With your application. Let’s have a look at some of the real issues present in today’s workflow and how MDD tries to solve them. We’ll also check out the current implementations, what issues they have and how we can improve them. I’m not going to focus on the first step at all, so let’s just define it as. Most web app...

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Magnus Holm - Change

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Thoughts on life, internet and programming. More. Every once in a while we need change. Not only when it comes to presidents and the placement of the telly, but also this specific blog. You see, I’m. Of this blog. I got subscribers and, once in a while, I get some decent traffic too. I’m also very satisfied with both the design and the concept. You start at the top and read until you reach the bottom. No sidebar. No distractions. The content. Welcome to the new version of judofyr.net.