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On The Rails: IOC comes to town
http://ontherails.blogspot.com/2004/11/ioc-comes-to-town.html
November 12, 2004. IOC comes to town. Dave Thomas (the Pickaxe. Forger) explains in plain simple English what Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IOC) can do. For an implementation that uses RoR. I'll admit I read Jamis' article (see Rails, Injected. After picking it up from the wiki yesterday but, not being a true propellerhead, I was left scratching my head wondering what to make of it. Dave distills it down to this: IOC means the controller is not so tightly coupled to the model. Hmm, ...
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Buckblog: LEGOs, Play-Doh, and Programming
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-programming
Maze book for programmers! Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more! Assorted ramblings by Jamis Buck. LEGOs, Play-Doh, and Programming. Mdash; Play-Doh and LEGO are compared and constrasted, and then put forward as a metaphor for comparing Ruby and Java. The reader is encouraged to embrace the strengths of each environment — 18-minute read. Besides, the toy section is across from the electronics section, which all geeks know is where the. So man...
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On The Rails: November 2004
http://ontherails.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_archive.html
November 19, 2004. From "3 posts in 3 days" to 1 post in 1 week, I hate being a fickle blogger. Alas, like many RoRers, our Rails project is a part time affair, and this week other work was paying the bills. On arrival, Voon introduced us old-schoolers to the concept of Test Driven Development. TDD) The software development process lying at the heart of XP. Of course, this approach mandates you know your requirements. A statement of the bleeding obvious perhaps, but here's the key: in TDD, the test d...