Today, I want to talk about code metrics. Taking the time to critically analyze your code can provide a number of wonderful benefits. It provides a viewpoint through which you can identify problem areas in your code base. It can give you confidence that you are reaching your goals and confirm suspicions when you are…
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A new Rails version is about to be released and it’s coming with many changes, deprecations, and new features. Lets take a look at what you need to do to get your app ready for Rails 4. The Path to Upgrade The easiest way to be ready for Rails 4 is having your app on…
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While I’ve been working on my little book about Sinatra, I’ve picked up a few helper methods that Sinatra provides. Some of these I already knew about, but hadn’t really used much and some I didn’t even know about. Sinatra has a bucket load of helper methods that contribute to making it such a nice…
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My first programming language was C. I started trying to learn how to code on a Windows machine. I literally spent a week just trying to get my PATH sorted out so that the C compiler would be accessible. While I was asking around on forums, someone suggested that I install Linux because it came…
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Who doesn’t like sunsets? Of all the sites you’ve seen about sunset you feel that there isn’t one that does it right. You decide to make the best damn sunset site on the web. There are a bunch of sunset photos. Could we use public images to populate this new awesome site? We’ll create a…
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All of us write code on a regular basis, some more often than others. But there is a major deficiency in the amount of time we spend reading others’ code. Authors don’t produce good work unless they consider the work of the others by reading it. A similar situation is present with us developers. Reading…
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The rise of sophisticated web applications, such as GMail, has given birth to an army of javascript frameworks. These frameworks allow you to, basically, create a client-side application within your web application. Terms such as “MVC” and other design patterns, once saved for only the server-side of the web, are now applied to just the…
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For a long while it seemed that the Flash hegemony is unbeatable in the market of online games. Then Apple announced that their (then) new mobile device – the iPhone – won’t support Flash because of performance issues. This forced game developers to find new alternatives rapidly. For application developers,there is an ongoing argument when…
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Jim Weirich is Chief Scientist at Neo I’ve been familiar with Jim Weirich’s name for a while; among other things he wrote the “rake” tool which most of us use on a daily basis. Then I was lucky enough to see Jim do a presentation at GoRuCo this June, when he explained some of the…
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Sinatra bridges the gap between complex, multi-tiered frameworks, and simplicity. If you don’t have a software development education (I don’t) need to develop for the web on a professional basis (I do), then Sinatra offers everything you need. The list of reasons to give Sinatra a try could be a very long one, but many…
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