I just finished my April book from my 2010 developer-oriented book reading list, so I thought I would share some thoughts on Ruby For Rails by David Black. In my last book review post, I mentioned that I was going to finally tackle functional programming this last month with Real World Functional Programming: With Examples [...]
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A couple of months ago, I had to scramble to find a new hosting company for my wife’s ecommerce site that I had built on Rails. My former hosting company performed a rather disastrous major upgrade and “move to the cloud” with no workable back-out plan and little expertise in Rails. The end result was [...]
I’ve spent most of my free time over the last 3 months (…and by free time I mean after everyone else has gone to bed) building DosPecesCreations.com, which is a small e-commerce application for my wife’s new jewelry business. I am a .NET developer by day, but I wrote the app in Ruby on Rails. [...]
What’s the difference between a spectator and a Newb? In order to achieve spectatorhood, you really just need to run through a few samples in books and tutorials. If you want to be diligent spectator, you can even go as far as tweaking a few of the samples before passing judgement, but that is not [...]
Not too long ago, someone asked me to explain the fundamental differences between static languages, such as C# and Java, and dynamic languages, such as Ruby and Python. Although I knew that duck typing and not resolving method references until runtime allowed for some nifty metaprogramming tricks that translated into not having to write as [...]
I’ve spent much of my free time over the last few weeks learning Ruby on Rails and thought I would record a few first impressions for anyone else who is thinking of dipping their toes in the RoR waters any time soon. First…My Motivations Curiosity – I’ve made a few snide remarks about Ruby over [...]
