Taking Out the Trash at RubyConf 2013
Back-End Full-Stack WebAs Rubyists, we give back to the community by helping out. And sometimes, helping out includes taking out the garbage.
Inspiration and New Friends at RubyConf India
Back-End Conferences Full-Stack WebIn my professional career, I’ve never felt prouder than when I was accepted as a speaker at RubyConf India. I’ve spoken at numerous user...
The only acceptable use for callbacks in Rails ever
Back-End Full-Stack WebAbout three years ago, I worked at a product company where the central functionality in our app consisted of five or six domain models...
The Super Easy Guide to Everything You Wanted to Know About How to be Awesome at a Conference
Back-End Full-Stack WebAs rubyists, we do not suffer for a lack of conferences. Nor for Rails events. Each and every one of these conferences...
Use Ruby to Generate Formatted Excel Documents
Back-End Full-Stack WebThe latest version of Ruby comes standard now with Comma Separated Value support built right in via the CSV library written by one of...
You Must Teach To Be Taught
Back-End Full-Stack WebWaaaayyy back in December, I had the pleasure of attending a code retreat. In that post, I discussed what I learned.
Lessons Learned at Global Day of Coderetreat
Back-End Full-Stack WebIn case you missed it, the awesome Globay Day of Coderetreat occurred on December 3rd. The amount of fun I experienced was unexpected...
Debugging Best Practices
Back-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpAt rubyhoedown, the inimitable Jim Weirich gave an awesome presentation on using the debugger in ruby. Before his new found respect for the...
Deprecation Notices – for my app?!?
You ever worked on a beastly project? And by beastly, I mean large, enterprisey, many fingers in the pie (3+ active rails developers),...
