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How Rails Developers do Ajax (with jQuery) in 2011
Software developers: how do you know when it’s the right time to do a big software rewrite?
Switching to Android
Toward an Agile Career Development Methodology
Since finishing The Passionate Programmer I’ve been putting a lot of thought into how to package the advice from the book into something more structured, serial, and prescriptive.
The Amazon reviews for the book are almost all glowingly positive with the occasional piece of constructive criticism. Here’s one such excerpt from an otherwise positive review...
How Ruby Mixins Work With Inheritance
Yesterday I asked on Twitter whether anyone was successfully using is_paranoid in a Rails application, because I had confused myself into thinking it couldn’t possibly work.
The problem I was having wasn’t is_paranoid’s fault, but it turns out it actually can’t do what I wanted it to do in its native state. The explanation...
No More Projects
As a young self-taught software developer, one of the first books I remember reading was Steve McConnell’s Software Project Survival Guide: How to Be Sure Your First Important Project Isn’t Your Last. Who knows why I picked that one of all the possible books but I somehow knew I wanted to learn something about...
