A fellow recently asked me for advice about running a Ruby workshop. And folks, I had forgotten I knew so much about it before he asked!
Before Rebuilding Rails had a video class, I had written a lot of the material for Rebuilding Rails workshops that I gave at Southeast Ruby and at Railsconf. I...
After a previous post I was asked for some examples: what types of things do you take out of your Rails app, especially a new one, to make a new service? For general rules read that post. But for some specifics, this is the post.
I gave a Twitter-length answer on Twitter. This has a bit more elaboration...
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A certain kind of software developer—or more often, businessperson— likes to talk about a hundred-year programming language, or even a hundred-year framework.
That’s a pretty audacious thing to say. I mean, software development is roughly 65...
A gentleman on Twitter suggested that to make a new SaaS app, you should do these things:
This is pretty good...
A reader of Mastering Software Technique emailed me to ask:
You mentioned it’s important to find a source of feedback while learning. I am just starting out with programming, so any suggestions on where to get such feedback would be great.
It’s a great question! Here’s what I told him, plus a little...
I was talking with some folks lately about how Rails is amazing and unmatched for prototyping web apps. If you’re dealing with high market risk, you want to build a lot of prototypes, fast, at low quality, with the assumption that 90%+ of them will be thrown away because nobody will buy them. That...
Different people can look at, say, a video tutorial and take different things from it.
A new programmer looks at what the video is “supposed” to teach and learns the immediate skill and how to do something in that language or environment.
An experienced developer learning a new language learns how...
Awhile back a fellow asked me the best way to increase test coverage at the small startup he works at.
It’s an excellent question.
Specifically, he asked:
“What’s the best way to go about increasing the unit test coverage of a codebase at a small scale startup? What procedure do you guys follow...
