Latest Posts - page 14
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Tracing the Rails Autoloader
The Ruby on Rails framework has a lot of magic in it that automatically takes care of tedious tasks so that the developer no longer has to worry about it.
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Namespaced Classes in Rails
In larger Rails applications, it is common to move related models, controllers, and/or views into sub-directories. Once moved, those classes will no longer be automatically found by Rails’ autoloader. There are two solutions:
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Pull Request-Driven Development
At my new job, I’m working on a project that uses some different processes than the project I was on at my last job. I’m finding the differences interesting, and have been thinking about the forces that would push a team in one direction or another.
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RubyConf 2014 Wrap-Up
Last week, I had the privilege of attending my first RubyConf. I really enjoyed it. There were a lot of great talks, and I got to meet with many friends (new and old). I went with a group from Zeal, my new employer, which was an interesting change. In the past, there might have only been one other person from work with me at a conference.
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Updates for Visualworks 8.0
Cincom’s Visualworks Smalltalk 8.0 has been released. While I’m part of the developer program, I hadn’t had a chance to ensure that all of my open source tools still work in the new version until just recently.
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Older Homes
My family has lived in our current home for more than 13 years now, longer than we’ve lived anywhere by a decade or so.
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Magit
I’ve been an Emacs user off and on for something like 25 years. I started using it when I was programming Common Lisp as a university research assistant but stopped for a number of years during my sojourn into Windows-land. When our team decided to build the next generation of our product on Linux back in 2001, we looked around for a usable C++ IDE and couldn’t find one. So we decided to run with Emacs and have been using it regularly ever since.
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New Job: Key to Zeal
I am excited to announce that I have accepted a new job. After 13 1/2 years at Key Technology, I have decided to switch gears and move to Zeal. My last day at Key will be October 31, 2014 and I’ll start at Zeal on November 3, 2014. That’s right, a whole weekend of funemployment!
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GoGaRuCo 2014 Video Is Up
The video of my Golden Gate Ruby Conference talk, Gilding the Rose: Refactoring Legacy Code, is now up on Confreaks. I hope you enjoy it!
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The Tip of the Iceberg
One of the things I enjoy is building tools that support my team and make us all more productive.