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...
Taking A Break Makes You A Better Coder
Leveling UpEvery programmer has had this thought: “Just 15 more minutes and I’ll have that feature working!” And 15 minutes come and go, and before...
Less Code is Better
Leveling UpIt’s a good thing we don’t charge by the lines of code we write in an application.
Debugging Ruby Tools
Back-End Front-End Leveling UpNew albums drop on Tuesdays, why not drop some nifty knowledge as well?
The 4 Things We Look For in a Code Review
Leveling UpMost developers think that every “other” developer’s code is “no good.” In fact, it is exactly this “Not Invented Here” syndrome that makes...
Syntax Matters
Leveling UpOne of my coworkers, Scott, recently pointed me towards Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s comments on programming languages and thought. In “Syntactic Sugar”, Jacob addresses the canard...
Simple Debugging in PEAR::DB
Back-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpOne of the most important (and least loved) activities in a programmer's life is debugging code. When debugging PHP, there are several strategies, ranging...
Debugging retain counts
Leveling Up MacThis article, originally published in MacTech Magazine, gives tips on how to write your code such that retain count problems are easier to find...
