In the spirit of the day I’ve released acts_as_rickroll. Instead of pranking you, I’m releasing a tool for Rails developers to prank other people. If you want to try this out, download the acts_as_rickroll plugin and expand it in your vendor/plugins directory.
This plugin overrides the redirect_to method of ActionController so that if you […]
On DABlog.com there is an article on Ruby Short Circuit evaluation. It’s an interesting read, although it comes to a slightly incorrect conclusion.
The questions is what does the statement x ||= 1 expand to. The initial hypothesis was that it expands to x = x || 1. That struck me as odd […]
I’ve seen and read a lot of discussions about hiring programmers. Most people claim to want great programmers, but few people know how to even marginally separate the good from the bad. “Great” is a loaded term, and it means different things to different people. What I want to focus on is […]
Apparently I’m not the only person watching the Tiobe index, because other people have been commenting on Ruby’s new position in the list. A couple of things to note, I’ve been watching the Tiobe list religously for over a year now. When I started watching Ruby was somewhere down in the depths of […]
We kicked off the first Layton Ruby Brigade meeting last Tuesday. I was a bit nervous that nobody would show up other than Ceaser, but I was planning to have it either way. We ended up getting nine people to come, although three of them were from the Utah Valley contingent. Kevin […]
We (Ceaser Larry and I) are starting a new segment of the Utah Ruby User Group called the Layton.rb. Ironically our first meeting will be held in Clinton, but we expect to find a place in Layton to host the meeting ongoing. The meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of every […]