Reality Loop

January 08, 2008
Care and Commitment - Don't even get started without them

Programming is very difficult. To do it well requires a phenomenal amount of commitment. To motivate yourself and keep yourself committed, you need to have pride in what you're doing. If instead you consider yourself a mechanical assembly l...
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January 08, 2008
Mixins: Can you do it Ruby-Style? (Part 1)

Ok, Ruby shows us how to do it: module TalkMixin def say_hello puts "hello" end end class Animal def eat puts "mpf mpf mpf ..." end end class Dog < Animal include TalkMixin def bark puts "wuff wuff"...
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January 07, 2008
Configuring Ruby SDK in IntelliJ

I have installed the Ruby Plugin into my current IntelliJ 7.02. You have to specify a 'Ruby SDK' when creating a new Ruby project. For me it was not obvious what that meant... But you cannot run your Ruby scripts out of the IDE as long as you d...
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January 06, 2008
Chain Reaction

Along with separation of concerns comes testability and with testability comes maintainability.. --Jeffrey Palermo, DNR 299
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January 05, 2008
Tainted Love

As much as I love a debugger, it is disheartening to need to use it to understand my code. . --Yet Another Language Geek This is meant as an argument in favor for functional programming. I think that moving aw...
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