SF Ruby Brigade

Chris Wanstrath makes a good point about an ugly way to initialize a variable, but I don’t agree that an explicit return is the best style to use.

The original ugly:

def logger unless @logger...

Last night it was my great pleasure to host the Lightning Talks session at RubyConf 2009. We had an amazing series of 20 talks that took just over 2 hours. The tech gremlins seemed to be off…

My hat’s off to Obie Fernandez for his recent article 10 Reasons Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses. I don’t actually agree that only the elite are cut out for pair programming, but I do think…

I was chatting with a friend over dinner this weekend about the impact of work environment on one’s ability to excel as a software developer. We’ve both worked for companies where we’ve had to work…

We’re finally getting all our after-conference activities completed. The most exciting thing is that we just got our conference media online. We have video and audio recordings of the Golden Gate…

This is not the post I wanted to write. The post that I wanted to write, that I in fact have mostly written and would have posted days ago if not for this distraction, was about what a great success…

Here we are, the week of Golden Gate Ruby Conference 2009. Everything is in good shape, and we’re looking forward to having an awesome time. So here is some last-minute information about the…

Here we are, the week of Golden Gate Ruby Conference 2009. Everything is in good shape, and we’re looking forward to having an awesome time. So here is some last-minute information about the…

Rails used to be about simplicity. I just started a new project in Rails 2.3. Here’s all the choices I’m now faced with:

• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Testing: Test/Unit, RSpec, Shoulda,…