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Practicing Ruby's second volume is now freely available(community.mendicantuniversity.org)
4 points by sandal 15y ago|1 comments
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Climbing the spiral staircase of refactoring(practicingruby.com)
1 points by sandal 15y ago|0 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
Ahahahah, I suppose I should fix that :)
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Kicking ass together: How to improve coding skills as a group(blog.rubybestpractices.com)
19 points by sandal 15y ago|3 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
The Penguin and the Leviathan. It is an interesting mix of science and anecdotal evidence which hints that most people, most of the time, would actually benefit more from cooperative behavior than they would from competitive behavior. http
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by sandal 15y ago
I am from the US, currently visiting China. I've confirmed that I'm able to access nodejs.org without my VPN. However, it's been my experience here that the system is aggressive about false-positives in general and will result in intermitte
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by sandal 15y ago
Hong Kong and Mainland China have pretty much completely separate political systems except for military and foreign affairs. I think this is supposed to last another 40 years or so at the minimum. It's weird how two regions connected by a s
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by sandal 15y ago
I am currently visiting China and everything you said is exactly what I've experienced. Using a VPN is the only way to get a working internet connection, but China is also blocking various popular VPN providers seemingly at random. You don'
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by sandal 15y ago
You're absolutely right. On top of that, many schools that are "free" are typically just trying to sell you something else. That's not the case with Mendicant University. Right now our public facing website has very little useful informatio
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by sandal 15y ago
We are aiming at intermediate developers who are proficient in Ruby. While I have a fair bit of Ruby expertise, I still consider myself an intermediate software developer at best, because there is so much to learn! It's true that Mendicant
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by sandal 15y ago
No, not vapor at all: * http://university.rubymendicant.com/resources/learning_mater... * http://university.rubymendicant.com/resources/student_projec... * http://university.rubymendicant.com/resources/core_projects....
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by sandal 15y ago
We had originally hoped that the introductory Ruby course at P2PU would serve as an entry point leading up to the Mendicant University core skills session. Unfortunately that class hasn't quite come together and we don't have an immediate a
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by sandal 15y ago
Yes, all of our courses are completely free as in beer and as in freedom. We run everything on a full open source stack and release all our exercises.
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How Mendicant University Works(blog.rubybestpractices.com)
35 points by sandal 15y ago|14 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
I've thought about writing a book on that.I've had to implement bits and pieces of PDF,PNG,JPG,and TTF and learning this stuff has been fascinating. I did write one article and also did a short video on this stuff, but could think about exp
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Practicing Ruby Journal: Three months in and still going strong(blog.rubybestpractices.com)
3 points by sandal 15y ago|0 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
1.9.3 is not an unstable release. Ruby uses the third version number to represent a point release, i.e. you can expect 1.9.3 to be more stable than 1.9.2 over time. I think that the versioning policy did work the way you describe it at one
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From requirements discovery to release(practicingruby.com)
2 points by sandal 15y ago|0 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
I am the author of "Practicing Ruby" ( http://practicingruby.com ). It's a paid newsletter but I offer it for free for anyone who can't pay for it, and try to release back issues relatively frequently.
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by sandal 15y ago
Yes, I was mirroring Mike's original headings and didn't change them, but this is one area where my inner pedant was awoken. Glad to see I'm not alone! The point here is simply that you should pass the object you directly want to work with,
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by sandal 15y ago
I agree. I went from the semi-general statements found in this post (robots.thoughtbot.com/post/10125070413/unobtrusive-ruby) and cast them deeply into Ruby examples, but I think that you could go in the other direction with this and find t
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Ruby Documentation Week (10/3 to 10/7)(projects.mendicantuniversity.org)
11 points by sandal 15y ago|0 comments
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Using connascence to reason about software design(blog.rubybestpractices.com)
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SOLID Design Principles (in Ruby)(blog.rubybestpractices.com)
5 points by sandal 15y ago|0 comments
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by sandal 15y ago
This may explain why they don't want people touching the river (from 6/13): "OFFSITE NOTIFICATION DUE TO SEWAGE SYSTEM RELEASE "At 0500 CDT, the lift station #4 sewage system, South of the Fort Calhoun Station Administration building, was r
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by sandal 15y ago
The phrase you're looking for is "good chance"
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by sandal 15y ago
Some folks are trying to do this (including me). Here's the issues we've found so far and fixed: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/summary-of-rubygems-18-b...
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by sandal 15y ago
Remains to be seen, I don't think evan has made a permanent commitment. But I believe that if anyone is best to handle whatever transition period is to come, it'd be him.
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by sandal 15y ago
I've been giving slimgems grief but not Loren, I've actually been in regular, productive dialogue with Loren since this started. But actually, you're right, my public presence may not reflect that and it's time for me to change strategies.
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by sandal 15y ago
We're working on ways to solve this problem. Did you check out the new release policies?

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