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  • Updates for Visualworks 8.0

    Nov 4, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in Smalltalk tools

    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

    Oct 28, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in design refactoring work

    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

    Oct 21, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in Tools I use emacs git

    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

    Oct 14, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in remote work

    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

    Oct 8, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in conference refactoring speaking

    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

    Oct 7, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in design rake ruby

    One of the things I enjoy is building tools that support my team and make us all more productive.

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  • Refactoring Legacy Code

    Sep 30, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in design refactoring

    My recent talk at GoGaRuCo is about refactoring legacy code. The talk is based on the Gilded Rose code kata, which is a really fun kata to try. I highly recommend setting aside a few hours to play with it. There are variants of the kata in a number of different languages.

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  • GoGaRuCo 2014

    Sep 23, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in conference speaking

    Last week, I attended the last-ever Golden Gate Ruby Conference in San Francisco. The conference organizers announced at the conference that this is the last year for this conference.

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  • Speaking at RubyConf 2014

    Sep 18, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in conference speaking

    I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at RubyConf 2014, November 17-19 in San Diego. I’ll be presenting “Affordances in Programming Languages”, an updated version of the talk I did at Mountain West Ruby Conference earlier this year.

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  • git-timemachine

    Sep 16, 2014 • Randy Coulman • posted in Tools I use emacs git

    In recent years, I’ve seen several people decide to switch to Emacs. There seem to be two or three compelling reasons that cause people to go through the temporary slow-down of making this change:

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