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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Flash Camp Chicago 2010
I did flash about 9-10 yrs ago. But I haven’t used it since, so when I saw Flash Camp 2010 was being held in downtown Chicago, I thought why not! I like to have at least a passing knowledge of all web tech and I didn’t know what Flex was all about. It was $20 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in flex / flash by nola
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Gitting better with Git
In the past few weeks I’ve been doing alot of Git and alot more collaboration with people on projects! So i wanted to point out some of the things i’ve learned and some handy tips I picked up.
I was
No Comments » - Posted in git, open source by nola
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Remote Pair Programming
Seems like Pair Programming is “all the rage” lately in my circles. I haven’t exactly done it before but after hearing about the success and rapid knowledge growth amongst those that pair program…I was almost dying to try it! Especially after i saw David Chelimsky and Corey Haines at WindyCityRails in Sept 2009. I saw [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Fun, agile, devchix, open source by nola
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
What I’ve been up to!
Its been a crazy December through January and I haven’t written much!
I’m glad the GWT posts helped some of you from the comments. I spent some time on figuring them out from the limited docs on google’s GWT site, mostly I think it helps to have complete examples since they dont make it real clear [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Ruby, android, gwt, life by nola
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Book Review: “Refactoring in Ruby”
I’ve have been pondering in the past 6 months - How do I get better at programing? What is the best way? do I need more books? At my current company, we whole heartedly engage in peer reviews, nothing gets checked in the repository without at least one person going over it. In that process, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ruby, Testing, patterns by nola
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Haml in my Camel
Trying something new .. HAML... I saw it a couple years ago, I was like "ehh.. umm.. nah" ... But working on the DevChix site, it seems like it will be our choice instead of erb for templates so I thought I'd give it a try.
So here's some straight up html + erb
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RUBY:
<h1>Listing [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Ruby, Ruby On Rails by nola
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Builder Pattern in Ruby
Call me crazy, but this is why I classify myself as a language geek. When I learn something fascinating, i wonder hmm how can I do that with X language? My last post I did an example of the Builder pattern as described in Effective Java by Joshua Bloch. The main motivation for me to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ruby, java, patterns by nola
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Builder Pattern in Java
I have been reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch and learned something new so I wanted to try it out.
Making long parameter lists in your constructor is not fun and prone to errors. Previously I thought that best way to handle this situation was to make a bunch of setter methods. This can get kind [...]
No Comments » - Posted in java, patterns by nola
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
GWT 2.0: UiHandler
I was pretty excited to find UiHandler, it makes the organization of code so much cleaner!
I am putting in the full code for both, so you can see the beauty for yourself! Pay attention to the comments where i put the gotchas that got me at first!
Before:
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JAVA:
package com.rubygeek.sandbox.client;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;
import com.google.gwt.event.dom.client.ClickEvent;
import com.google.gwt.event.dom.client.ClickHandler;
import com.google.gwt.uibinder.client.UiBinder;
import [...]
No Comments » - Posted in gwt, java by nola
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
GWT 2.0: UiBinder, first look at simple example
Note: as of right now, you can only get this feature in Trunk. see here for how to download the source and use it More Info on release
One of the great new features coming out of GWT 2.0 is UiBinder, a way to make a declarative UI without making tons of objects. Reminding you of [...]
