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How are rubies cut?

almost 4 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Master Rubyist Charles Nutter recently posted an entry titled The Rubyists are wrong. Wrong about the way rubies featured in our Ruby logos are cut. My...

Erb Eval

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Because I always forget how to do it: require 'erb' name = 'bob' template = 'whatever, ' puts ERB.new(template).result(binding) Useful for sticking Ruby...

Cocoa Proggin' in Nu

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Tim Burks continues to make it easy to dip your toe into Nu via his brilliant guerilla tactics. Case in point: the new Cocoa Programming with Nu repository...

The Bang

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
I was checking out Ryan Lowe’s save_or_raise project today and stumbled upon this quote: Ruby methods that end with an exclamation point are a signal...

Brutalism

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
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Love Bank of America

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Here’s the story: I opened a new Bank of America account and, naturally, ordered checks. They never arrived. I went into the bank and asked them for more...

Two programmers walk into a bar...

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
One of them says, “My framework couldn’t do what I wanted, so I extended it.” The other says, “My framework couldn’t do what I wanted, so I implemented...

Should?

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
test "should ping a user" do ping user end test "pings a user" do ping user end Tell, don’t ask. -- Delivered by Feed43 service...

Profiling jQuery Apps

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
Again, John Resig is the man. Even cooler that his example uses GitHub. Sorry about my crappy JS – now I have no excuse not to optimize it. Here’s the...

The Power of the Toe-Dip

over 3 years ago by Chris Wanstrath on ones zeros majors and minors.
jQuery has jQuery.noConflict(). Just slip jQuery into your existing project and try it out – dip your toe in. There’s no obligation. You can always...