I had a piece of data import code in Wind and Tides that I just knew could be cleaner and more elegant. Last week I submitted it to Jamis and Michael who write the Rails Way blog and their refactoring of it exceeded my expectations and taught me a thing or two in the process. Their blog is definitely worth a read if you’re trying to take your rails coding to the next level!
One thing I love about Ruby (and really miss when working in Java) is its interactive command line interpreter irb (or script/console if you’re using Rails). I really wish irb had tab completion and saved history configured by default out of the box. The good news is it’s easy to configure by creating a $HOME/.irbrc file with the following contents:
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I’ve been a Bloglines user for a long time. However, after hearing about Newshutch on the Web 2.0 show podcast Episode 26 I’ve made the switch and couldn’t be happier. It sports just the right amount of Ajax, good keyboard shortcuts, and it’s built with Ruby on Rails. In short it’s by far the best web based RSS reader out there, check it out!
I live in San Francisco and work as a consultant to Common Sense Media and Greatschools.
I stopped working full-time back in October of 2007 so we could take 8 months off and sail down to Mexico. And no, I'm not a dot com millionaire that's retired, I still need to work for a living.
Our boat is in Mexico right now and we'll be going down for another 6 months starting in February of 2009. When we get back in August of 2009 I'll start looking for another full-time CTO job.
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