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Hi readers, long time! I've been meaning to post but you know how things get with work and yoga and all that. Also, I've been kind of busy working on organizing Golden Gate RubyConf 2010 for a while. The great news is that we're on!It took us longe...
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Chris Wanstrath makes a good point about an ugly way to initialize a variable, but I don't agree that an explicit return is the best style to use.The original ugly:def logger unless @logger @logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) @logger.level = Log...
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Last night it was my great pleasure to host the Lightning Talks session at RubyConf 2009. We had an amazing series of 20 talks that took just over 2 hours. The tech gremlins seemed to be off drinking somewhere and none of the presentations failed.H...
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The RubyConf 2009 schedule was just posted. As a public service, I have fixed it to be readable and to use, you know, hyperlinks and stuff. Enjoy.http://hasmanythrough.com/rubyconf2009/schedule.html(Apparently my planning for GoGaRuCo 2010 has me t...
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My hat's off to Obie Fernandez for his recent article 10 Reasons Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses. I don't actually agree that only the elite are cut out for pair programming, but I do think he's on target with his list of obstacles to effective ...
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I was chatting with a friend over dinner this weekend about the impact of work environment on one's ability to excel as a software developer. We've both worked for companies where we've had to work far more than 40 hours each week for extended periods of time. We both agreed that's a...
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We're finally getting all our after-conference activities completed. The most exciting thing is that we just got our conference media online. We have video and audio recordings of the Golden Gate Ruby Conference technical sessions! Pivotal Labs spons...
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This is not the post I wanted to write. The post that I wanted to write, that I in fact have mostly written and would have posted days ago if not for this distraction, was about what a great success Golden Gate Ruby Conference was and how proud we are of putting on...
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Here we are, the week of Golden Gate Ruby Conference 2009. Everything is in good shape, and we're looking forward to having an awesome time. So here is some last-minute information about the conference.We've got a great program. Really, this is th...
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