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by ollysb 16y ago
Disappointed, thought it might suggest class names based on the attributes that you already know you want to associate with it.
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by ollysb 16y ago
Unfortunately it's rare that you find a product listing which hasn't got a "review(s)" section at the end so this isn't an effective strategy.
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm aware that sql was originally intended to be used by non technical business users but I've never known a single one that did. Have you had experience with people that do?
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by ollysb 16y ago
Does feel a little like someone vandalised your car doesn't it. At this rate someones going to be writing "ruby, the good bits".
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by ollysb 16y ago
Find and replace is probably the only time I use the command line to actually modify the code. I could use a text editor to do this but favour the power I get with the command line(using ack and sed). Using the command line isn't necessary
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm a java refugee and used to make heavy use of the refactoring tools in eclipse. It's definitely something I miss from my old workflow. Given you're using BDD there isn't really anything to be concerned about when using regexes etc. to m
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by ollysb 16y ago
I've been practising BDD for a few years now. For whatever reason I'll sometimes find myself coding without having first written a reason. You know what, I always find that I'm really not enjoying writing the code. The reason, I'm constantl
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by ollysb 16y ago
I love developing in rails but let's be clear, refactoring ruby is just painful at the moment. Yesterday I decided to rename a model, it took over an hour to get the tests passing again. Ok there's rubymine but it's only partially effective
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by ollysb 16y ago
I certainly know people that would fit into the category that they describe. I consider them massively underpaid given the amount of value that they bring to any project they work on. They act as the glue and enablers for product developers
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by ollysb 16y ago
It's always seemed intuitively surprising that there's no feedback mechanism within neurons to aid learning. What's the currently favoured mechanism for learning, neurons feeding back to previous neurons?
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by ollysb 16y ago
Looking at the sides of the channel you can see that they get lower towards the "top". I can see how the channel is flat on the floor and that the supporting vertical struts are simply cut to the correct height for the camera's perspective.
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by ollysb 16y ago
Very nice. I was a little disappointed to discover how much code was required to achieve the effects though. Having to resort to using content:"" always feels like a workaround. Not having to use images is great though, I'll definitely be u
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by ollysb 16y ago
In my previous company we experimented with "promiscuous pairing". The idea is that you swap partners every hour and a half or so. You would spend 2 time slots on each partnership, in the first you were the beginner, the second the teacher.
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by ollysb 16y ago
Shameless plug -- we're building hosted continuous integration and deployment for heroku. We'll be opening up our beta real soon, email hn@zenslap.me to get an invite. More information at http://zenslap.me .
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by ollysb 16y ago
Is github going to be textmate 2?
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm so blown away by this it makes me want to ask for another one, ack in project? :)
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by ollysb 16y ago
The spreedly FAQ implies that you need a merchant account. "How does Spreedly pay me? Spreedly never touches your customers' money - it goes straight into your merchant account." is this not the case?
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by ollysb 16y ago
As a Londoner I'm curious, is it a legal requirement to offer employees health care or will developers just not consider positions that don't include health care cover?
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by ollysb 16y ago
I'm also a visual learner, I found reading http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/ really helped me gain a deep understanding of how git repositories work. It goes into quite a bit of detail but I found that once I'd groke
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by ollysb 16y ago
You're right that in theory a REST api could also be a PITA to use. In my experience though I've always been able to get the query I wanted quickly and easily. To be fair it's rare that I'm doing anything that isn't a GET but on the occasio
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by ollysb 16y ago
Anything can be easy to use if you have a toolkit to hide the complexity. The point is with REST you don't need the toolkit.
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by ollysb 16y ago
It's this lack of discoverability that kills SOAP. I've never had any trouble parsing the response xml once I get my hands on it, namespaces etc are a non issue at this point. The completely non-standard format of the queries that makes it
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by ollysb 16y ago
I really like less as an improvement to css. I always end up discarding it though because of the dual representation you end up with. I've tried using the https://github.com/cloudhead/more/ plugin for rails which generates the css on the
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by ollysb 16y ago
Perhaps the point is that you should refactor your code into modular code when it's required. In real applications there's a million different ways to modularise the code, it's extremely rare that you guess which way is right in the absence
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by ollysb 16y ago
Have been trying to find a solution to headless js testing in cucumber that doesn't suck or need java. A driver built on top of this would rock!
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by ollysb 16y ago
Being able to load gems into namespaces would rock! You'd never have to worry about incompatibilities between transient dependencies. I quite regularly get stuck with gems that have the same dependency but with different major versions. At
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by ollysb 16y ago
Crikey, where to start... I've had several stabs at this response exploring abstraction and data hiding, message passing, keeping computation close to the data... In the end OO just seems like a philosophy with some related principles rathe
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by ollysb 16y ago
A few years back an ex-girlfriend of mine did an erasmus year over in Spain and I ended up making friends with a whole bunch of people that I could barely converse with. They've always been very impressed at far my Spanish has come in IM, t
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by ollysb 16y ago
Haven't quite digested it yet but it seems to be microsoft's attempt at a component model for html/javascript/css. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531079(v=vs.85).as...
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by ollysb 16y ago
Domain driven design is supposed to be about creating an ubiquitous language, used by application code, tests, developers and stakeholders. If you want a more fluent style in your code you want it everywhere not just the tests. The RSpec ma

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