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   by sandal 17y ago

   When I first started reading this I thought it was about focusing on personal relationships for mutual benefit rather than networking out of pure self interest. That's a good message! But then it started to sound like bad dating advice fro
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   by sandal 17y ago

   Robert Klemme ponders why we see catch ... throw so rarely in Ruby, among other things.
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   Control Flow Features and Readability (Ruby)(blog.rubybestpractices.com)

   1 points by sandal 17y ago|1 comments
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   by sandal 17y ago

   Let's just keep in mind that young women and hackers are not mutually exclusive.
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   by sandal 17y ago

   About the campaign: Ahahaha, someone please do that! It'd be awesome :) About framebusting: Yeah, it sucks to break some good uses of framing. Anyone know of a service out there that does busting based only on a list of known abusive URLs
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   by sandal 17y ago

   Thanks for posting this link. I hadn't seen it before, and it really does hit the nail on the head.
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   by sandal 17y ago

   There is a difference between linking and putting an obnoxious panel with flash banners in it onto a page without any clear indication that the content below it is not affiliated with about.com.
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   by sandal 17y ago

   I know this sort of thing is par for the course in terms of corporate blogging, but I just felt the need to share my feelings as a content creator in hopes that companies understand their actions effect real people, not just ad click-throug
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   by sandal 17y ago

   Funny, I just forwarded this to my numerical analysis prof. we mostly studied solutions based on laplace in my course, but this is quite interesting (as it appeals to my inner hacker)
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    by sandal 17y ago

    Both of these books are great. After those, the book "Seeking the Heart of Wisdom" is recommended for those who want more of the whole picture.
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    by sandal 18y ago

    Definitely true. Unfortunately, Rails scaffolds and early Ruby programming books propagated this as an acceptable alternative to using iterators, and we're still feeling a bit of the pain from it now. It's nice that James managed to dig up
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    by sandal 18y ago

    Ruby has block local scoping. It's not the case where you set a beforehand that matters, but when you don't. For example: >> (1..2).each { |i| p i } 1 2 => 1..2 >> i NameError: undefined local variable or m
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    by sandal 18y ago

    That already exists, and maybe I should have linked it instead, you're right. But I imagine one post is enough for today :) Here it is for those interested, though: http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/welcome.html
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    by sandal 18y ago

    I thought announcements might be news-worthy, especially when the tech under the hood is all hackable. I actually did check the guidelines before posting, but I should lurk moar, perhaps.
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    by sandal 18y ago

    Fair enough. Though I have already benefited tremendously from new reader feedback, everything from fixing RSS feed validation to proofreading. I think two articles up so far are genuinely interesting though, FWIW.
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    by sandal 18y ago

    Just announced today. Will feature posts from James Britt, Gregory Brown, Kirk Haines, Robert Klemme, Jeremy McAnally, Sean O’Halpin, Magnus Holm and Lakshan Perera. Focus is on showing how to write better Ruby code through practical exam
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    "Ruby Best Practices" Collaborative Blog(blog.rubybestpractices.com)

    16 points by sandal 18y ago|8 comments
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    by sandal 18y ago

    This chapter is basically the meta-programming / DSL stuff if not by that name. It gives a good sampling of the overall feel for the book. Feedback is very welcome. The book will be released under a CC license 9 months after it hits the she
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    Sample Chapter From "Ruby Best Practices"(blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp)

    3 points by sandal 18y ago|1 comments
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    Ruby Best Practices | O'Reilly Roughcut(oreilly.com)

    1 points by sandal 18y ago|0 comments
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    by sandal 18y ago

    The initial alpha release (Prawn 0.1.0) from the Ruby Mendicant project [ http://rubymendicant.wikidot.com ]. This library is the first (and only) pure Ruby PDF library to support UTF-8 text and runs on both Ruby 1.8 and 1.9
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    Prawn : Fast, Nimble PDF generation in Pure Ruby(prawn.majesticseacreature.com)

    7 points by sandal 18y ago|2 comments