Author Archive
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
RubyPair – Never Code Alone Again!
I was sitting at the Lone Star Ruby Conference and during one of the workshops the speaker mentioned we could find a pair programming partner for the next segment of the workshop. Being a little shy and the only person I knew there was with his co-worker, I thought it would sure be nice to [...]
Comments Off - Posted in agile,Fun,Ruby,Ruby On Rails by nola
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
Adding an application config file to a rails project
Recently I worked on a project where I needed certain config variables for staging, production, test etc and I wanted to store all these in a yaml file. I could set them in the different environments files but I prefer them all in one file. Create a file in the config/initializers .. I called it [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Ruby,Ruby On Rails by nola
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Practicing Ruby with RailsCasts
I recently went on a small vacation and finally had some time to catch up on some railscasts! I like to setup a project and "play along" with Ryan Bates and pause/play and work through the examples. With all my experimentation/playing I keep a git repo at http://github.com/rubygeek/rubygeek where I keep code for reference later. [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Ruby,Ruby On Rails by nola
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
Koan-a-copia!
I first learned about Koans from EdgeCase Ruby Koans project, it was great fun and great practice. Since then, whenever I mentored a DevChix or RailsMentors member I suggest to start doing Koans... even on a regular basis, once you finish them all .. then start over! I always have a ruby koan mid-way and [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Testing by nola
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
January Potluck
I don't know what else to call this post, I've been doing a little bit of everything in past few months. I've changed jobs and thats taken much of my freetime to ramp up and get going on new projects. SO, I will write up a little of what I've been doing. Facebook -- Yes, [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Fun,life by nola
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Getting around with GNU Screen
In past few months, I worked on a project developed entirely on linux. Previously, I mostly did rails development on mac with textmate. I had a brief period of rails and perl where I did vim and screen...oh maybe 4 years ago. Anyways, so I didn't forget much vim over the years, but I had [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linux,open source,Uncategorized by nola
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Ruby-Debug
I never really used a debugger until I did Java. Before that I did what was called "PHP Debugging" which is littering your code with print statements until you figure out what you need to know, then going back and making sure you deleted them! I sometimes would put a unique string like print "QWE" [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in java,open source,Perl,Ruby,Ruby On Rails,Testing by nola
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Texas Javascript Conference
Yesterday I went to the Texas Javascript conference! Its was held in Austin, TX. I had bought the ticket probably about 3 months ago. In part, I wanted to learn more javascript and I wanted to check out Austin. Now, through a series of events, I have moved to Austin from Chicago recently. I really [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Javascript/AJAX,open source by nola
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Finding Ada – Through DevChix!
For this years Finding Ada post, I would like to highlight several members of DevChix and their contributions and inspirations to the group. Desi McAdam - One of the co-founders of DevChix. She is always there to put some perspective on things and teach me about diplomacy. Sometimes I get frustrated and speak without thinking [...]
Comments Off - Posted in devchix,life,open source by nola
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
CSS Frameworks Comparison
A few weeks ago I set out to compare Blueprint and YUI Grid. I built a page with blueprint. Then built it with YUI2 Grid and then thought about it awhile. At first I was sold on blueprints CSS. Thats cool, thats tight! It just seemed to be so clever. But when i read the [...]
