Blog

• Technical Debt is a Project Killer
• How I Blog
• Get comfy in the Ubuntu terminal
• Dragon Astronauts Store Launch! 🚀🐉
• Why you should use Docker in development.
• Why we unit test.
• What is a Ruby block?
• Notes on the Rails 8 Keynote
• Ruby blocks, procs, lambdas and closures
• Better, faster code with test driven development
• ChatGPT is still making lots of mistakes.
• The Power of Play for better Team Meetings
• Software Estimates and Safety Margins
• What to do when you're laid off.
• Should I fix the terrible app I inherited?
• Should I use a Struct or an OpenStruct (Ruby)?
• Why do we Bundle exec (re-examined)
• JavaScript Hoisting intro
• Ranges with 2 or 3 dots
• How to get the min and max from an Array (Ruby)
• JSON Web Token basics
• React Component Intro
• JSX React Intro
• Stimulus Intro
• Active Record Intro
• Action Text Intro
• Active Record Validations Intro
• Private Methods
• Case Statements
• Binstubs
• Ruby Benchmark
• Keyword parameters in Ruby
• Lambda
• Plain Old Ruby Objects
• Open Struct
• A Better Technical Interview.
• Ruby Blocks - How to pass and Execute Code
• How to use Service Objects in Rails.
• Why do we bundle exec?
• Ruby Case statements from if/else
• Classes, Hashes, Structs and OpenStructs in Ruby
• Pushing Rails validations down to the database?
• Ruby Native Extensions
• Using Spaced Repetition to Learn Programming
• Active Record Migrations Intro
• Active Record Callbacks Intro
• Comparing Strings in Ruby
• Multiline Strings
• Organizing large Rails projects
• Using Rails form objects
• Killing dead Rails controllers
• What is a good first programming language?
• Should you add Gemfile.lock to Git?
• Rails Benchmarking
• Cleaning up a messy Gemfile
• Ruby String Concatenation
• $LOAD_PATH
• Keyword (Named) Parameters
• Regular Expressions on Strings
• Ruby Struct
• Hash
• Range
• Arrays in Ruby
• Ruby String Basics (Again)
• Looping in Ruby
• Service Object (Ruby on Rails)
• String Interpolation
• Ruby Integers Intro
• Ruby Class
• Ruby Constants
• Ruby String Basics
• Ruby off Rails
• Naming Ruby Gems
• Tips to be a productive developer.