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Clojure: name function
The 'name' function is a clojure function that returns the string for a keyword, symbol, or string. name - function Usage: (name x) Returns the name String of a string, symbol or keyword. At first glace this might not seem that interesting; however, it's good to know 'name' if you've ever been surprised by (str :foo) => ":foo". If you have a...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 11, 2012 8:07 AM
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enjoying a speakerconf
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Jay Fields
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Jun 9, 2012 4:51 AM
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EasyMailPreview
The folks at HowAboutWe do a decent amount of HTML email, as you might expect for any site where people can send each other messages. Dissatisified with the tools for developing HTML email, I wrote EasyMailPreview, a Ruby gem that makes it very easy to see the results of an HTML email in development mode. It auto-discovers mail methods and...
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Francis Hwang
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Jun 8, 2012 1:07 PM
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speaking at speakerconf
Speaking at speakerconf is nothing like speaking at a traditional conference. It took us a few years to tweak our ideas around presentations - and this blog post is about what we've come to consider 'the speakerconf way' (with respect to speaking) There are no abstracts or pre-announced talks. From the beginning Josh and I have believed that we...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 7, 2012 6:55 AM
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a typical day at speakerconf
At this point, speakerconf has run 5 times in 4 years - in Aruba and Italy. Josh and I are happy with what we've created, and a few follow up entires will list the attributes of speakerconf that make it a unique and successful event. This post, however, should serve as a quick view into what a typical day is like at speakerconf. the morning...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 6, 2012 6:56 AM
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Clojure: expectations & with-redefs
In general, when I'm writing tests, the pure functions end up as bare expects and the impure functions end up as scenarios. The following contrived namespace keeps a list of users and allows you to get the full name of each user. The tests for this namespace would often look something like the following code: It feels natural to put the...
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Jay Fields
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Jun 5, 2012 6:51 AM
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Automate statement downloading with statement_hoarder
If you’re like me, you’ve switched all of your websites to paperless statements. No more bank, credit card, or utility statements arrive in the mail. But you would still like to have copies of these important documents, so you log in to each website and download the PDF statements. Downloading these statements is tedious and [...]
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Paul Gross
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Jun 4, 2012 12:22 AM
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Ruby Programming 34th Batch: Registrations now open
Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s popular Ruby programming course. This is an intensive, online course for beginners that helps you get started with Ruby programming. Here is what Demetris Demetriou, a participant who just graduated, has to say – “When I joined this course I was sceptical about how useful this...
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Satish Talim
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Jun 1, 2012 10:35 PM
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Announcing the 2012 Rails Hosting Survery
You might recall that back in 2009, we surveyed the Ruby on Rails community to gauge how people were deploying and hosting their applications. It’s been over three years, so we’ve decided to run it again…. I know… we’re crazy like that! So… without further ado… we present the 2012 Rails Hosting Survey...
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Robby Russell
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May 31, 2012 12:33 PM
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The Single Best Thing For My Career
In 2004 I was working at nelnet - for one of the best bosses I've ever had. I was the lone developer working on NextGen projects, our customers were happy, I was paid well, & I had plenty of vacation - things were good. Truthfully, I felt like I was on top of the world. However, I couldn't help but feel like something was missing. I'd seen a...
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Jay Fields
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May 31, 2012 6:21 AM
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A Mobile Site or Responsive Design?
Our team at Planet Argon just released a white paper on this topic. I’d like to invite you to check it out.
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Robby Russell
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May 30, 2012 1:36 PM
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Things I learned while implementing version 1.0 of pws
After releasing version 0.9 of my cli password manager, I received friendly feedback and suggestions, which encouraged me to further improve it. Here are some of my experiences implementing pws 1.0: Key Deriveration Function The passwords reside in an encrypted file, which is fine. However, this won’t be of any use, if an attacker just...
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Jan Lelis
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May 30, 2012 7:29 AM
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Is Productivity Killing Your Creativity?
I listen to audio books while I work out. I've been known to leave earworms 'Rapid Italian' on while trying to go to sleep. I read books on trains. I answer emails while eating dinner. I clear out my Google Reader while watching TV with my wife. I wanted to learn Ruby and Blackjack perfect strategy, so I wrote a perfect strategy simulator in...
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Jay Fields
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May 30, 2012 7:26 AM
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Clojure: Freezing Time in expectations
The current version of expectations (1.4.3) contains support for freezing time within an expectations scenario. I already put this information out in a previous blog entry, and I'm going to use the same examples here. The following code is a test I was working on at work: (scenario (handle-fill (build PartialFill)) (expect {:px 10 :size 33...
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Jay Fields
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May 29, 2012 7:24 AM
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Goruco: Six years on
I wrote a little something about Goruco on the Goruco site: Let me make a confession: Before we hosted the first GORUCO, I kind of didn’t want to be bothered. NYC.rb had been a successful Meetup for years, and people would occasionally say “you know, we could have a great regional conference here.” Which made sense in theory,...
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Francis Hwang
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May 28, 2012 6:56 PM
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