Last weekend I had the opportunity to drive down to Columbus to participate in the second annual Columbus Give Camp. It was the first Give Camp experience for me. Here’s how it went…
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A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
22 jul
26 may
If you’re like me, you may have taken a crack at practicing some Agile techniques on your own. This may make you a better programmer, but it ain’t Agile. You need to get the boss on board.
08 may
After messing around with blank paper, whiteboards and “paper” prototyping programs like Balsamiq or Microsoft PowerPoint, we finally got down to brass tacks this morning and built the paper framework we’ve been wanting. The grid is patterned after the Blueprint CSS framework’s grid. H1 would be two lines high, regular text would be 1 line. Hopefully this will make the transitioning of sketches to real HTML/HAML simpler and easier, and also help us to “keep it real” in terms of what would fit and/or look good on a page.
Download, print, scribble, enjoy. If you use/like it, holler.
21 apr
”...after a long period of consecutive repetition, one realizes that the koan is also a dynamic activity, the very activity of seeking an answer to the koan.”—G. Victor Sogen Hori, Translating the Zen Phrase Book
19 apr
I had some trouble setting my favorite font on gvim startup in Windows. This did the trick for me!
17 apr
After hearing good things about Andy Hunt’s Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware, I decided to give doodling a try. Here’s a breakdown of my breakout (as a whiteboard artist!).
26 mar
Adelphus Analytics expert Michael Helbling (who is also my brother) is in town to speak at the Cleveland Web Association about Web Analytics. Michael does Web Analytics for Lands End. He has some very interesting stories about how WA can have a dramatic impact on a company's bottom line. This promises to be a great talk. You can get a ticket at the above link.
18 mar
I’ve been appalled by the routing/controller specs that I get when I use rspec to generate a resource scaffold. Why does a single line of code in routes.rb require one hundred lines of specs? How can that possibly be justified? I’m setting out to find a more sensible approach.
06 mar
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24 feb
Last night at CleRB, we ran into an interesting quirk while implementing a two-dimensional array for a Sudoku solver. In order to make sure I understood what was going on, I spent a little time in irb attempting to create multidimensional arrays and hashes.
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Ron Hopper is speaking at cfObjective(ANZ) in Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 12-13.
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