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by tcopeland 12y ago
On a related note, here's Rich Kilmer talking about Ruby DSLs way back in 2008: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/kilmer-ruby-dsls Good stuff from a guy who's done some pretty massive DSLs on DARPA projects.
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Yup, it's a brief mention on page 147.
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by tcopeland 12y ago
I think it's a combination of people liking Ruby, as you said, and also just slow work day for folks in US. I agree with the 2nd ed of Metaprogramming being a great addition to the shelf. I feel like it's been a solid year for Ru
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Here's my list of (mostly) Ruby-related good talks from this year: http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/10/18/good-technical-video... Andrew Turley's "What we can learn from COBOL" talk is pr
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Another strange alliance - when the Finns fought "with" the Germans against the Russian. I'm using quotes because they weren't allies, really, but were against a common enemy at the time. Some discussion of that in &qu
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by tcopeland 12y ago
That book is currently on 3 military reading lists: http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/books/665-boyd-t... and it was on last year's Army (!) reading list.
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by tcopeland 12y ago
I'm betting most people have this setting already: irb(main):001:0> Rails.configuration.serve_static_assets => false But anyhow, it's an easy upgrade since it's just the security fix.
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by tcopeland 12y ago
To stress your browser, open viz.html and in irb do: module Example ; class Foo ; def bar ; end ; end ; end 100.times { Example::Foo.new ; sleep 1 }
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Interesting, that's on the USMC reading list: http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/search?keywords=...
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Just added another check; now pippi finds "assert_equal nil, x" and suggests replacing it with "assert_nil x".
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Finding suboptimal Ruby class API usage(thomasleecopeland.com)
3 points by tcopeland 12y ago|1 comments
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Yup, "On Combat" is on the Air Force reading list. And "On Killing" has shown up on four different reading lists. The only author I can think of who gets more space there is probably John Keegan; he's everywhere:
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by tcopeland 12y ago
When I started the site 6 years ago I was on a "four word domain name" kick. Also, sadly, militaryreadinglists.com was already taken.
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by tcopeland 12y ago
The site only contains various military reading lists, so apparently Scheur's book hasn't been represented on any of those - at least not the ones that I've managed to collect, that is. But the "Defense Academy of the UK
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Military Professional Reading Lists(militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com)
65 points by tcopeland 12y ago|23 comments
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by tcopeland 12y ago
I go back and forth with prefixing my own blog posts - especially the softer ones, like this one on preserving technical knowledge http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/10/01/preserving-technical... - with discla
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Dune was on the Army MCoE book list for a while too: http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/search?keywords=... It's not on their most recent list, but Starship Troopers is.
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by tcopeland 12y ago
I remember Brad giving the keynote at RubyConf 2004. At that time he was pretty excited about micropayments, so after a short blurb on ObjC he mostly talked about that. I don't think micropayments ever really worked out, but he was ob
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Some techniques for cleaning up a Rails routes file(thomasleecopeland.com)
3 points by tcopeland 12y ago|0 comments
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Preserving technical knowledge(thomasleecopeland.com)
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Yup, per Sandi Metz: https://twitter.com/sandimetz/status/514411916480249856 I've also heard it expressed as "the pain caused by code duplication is nothing compared to the pain caused by wrong abstracti
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by tcopeland 12y ago
I don't plan on rewriting my Rails apps, but the talk is certainly food for thought. At the very least this is a nice explanation of Ruby metaprogramming techniques; pair it with Paolo Perrotta's "Metaprogramming Ruby"
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Yup this is great stuff, just be sure to get the 2nd edition which just came out: http://www.amazon.com/Metaprogramming-Ruby-Program-Like-Face... It focuses on modern Rubies, so it talks about Module#prepend and such. Nice
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by tcopeland 12y ago
That's a great writeup, well done. Along the same lines, here's the ever-entertaining Rich Kilmer talking about DSL experiences on some government projects: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/kilmer-ruby-dsls
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by tcopeland 12y ago
He's written a couple of other books relating to the atomic bomb; both were included on the STRATCOM reading list: http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/search?keywords=...
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Ha I just did a little RubyGem to find files of which x% of the lines are more than y years old - the olde_code_finder: http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/09/18/olde-code-finder.htm... Actually, the first vers
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by tcopeland 12y ago
I can see the advantages of using the Arel predicates, but to me this: User.order("id desc") reads better than: User.order(User.arel_table[User.primary_key].desc) The latter seems a lot less expressive. Also, Pat
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by tcopeland 12y ago
When you introduce a new API endpoint or format for data at rest, think hard Yup. I've added columns where I've used a datetime where a date would have sufficed and then regretted it later once tons of data was alr
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Even transiting the Panama Canal in a smallish (210 foot USCG medium endurance cutter) is kind of weird. One day you're underway making way in the Pacific, the next day you've got mules pulling you through locks.
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by tcopeland 12y ago
Small Ruby world!

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