Ruby Zone | Resources for Ruby and Rails developers

Allen Coin04/05/13
6405 views
0 replies

Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/5)

Today: Programming is terrible, but what can you do about it? An interview with Alan Key, the new Facebook Home, and the story behind O'Reilly's book cover animals.

Mitch Pronschinske04/04/13
32421 views
0 replies

Erlang: Noob to Production in 2 Months

James learned Erlang because he wanted to make some minor customizations to ejabberd. Before he knew it, he was putting thousands of lines of his own code in to production. In this talk, James will discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of writing and running his first Erlang service.

Paul Hammant04/04/13
3798 views
0 replies

Maintained Divergence

Simply put, Maintained Divergence is where you have two branches that have a common origin, and while merges may happen in either direction, there are differences that remain over time.

Pat Shaughnessy04/04/13
1133 views
0 replies

Ruby 2.0 Works Hard So You Can Be Lazy

Ruby 2.0’s new lazy enumerator feature seems like magic. In case you haven’t tried it yet, it allows you to iterate over an infinite series of values and take just the values you want.

Mitch Pronschinske04/04/13
1153 views
0 replies

Building an Asynchronous Communication Layer w/ XMPP, Ruby, Javascript

Get an introduction to Strophe.js, XMPP4R, and ejabberd, which are the XMPP components that we use to integrate our device automation framework and living room devices under test.

Eric Gregory04/03/13
2712 views
0 replies

Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/4)

Today: A new fork of WebKit from Google, a big security update for Postgres, new releases for R and Rust, and some very exciting positrons.

Rodrigo De Castro04/02/13
1850 views
0 replies

Ask DZ: What Do You Like to See in a Software Engineer Job Posting?

I've always been curious to see job descriptions when someone reaches out to me about software engineer (or related) positions. Most of them don't really have anything uncommon, but sometimes you see something in them that could be an indication of the company's philosophy on software development.

Henri Bergius04/02/13
9141 views
0 replies

My Development Setup... Working with an Android Tablet!

If Mark O'Connor was able to work productively a whole year with one, why couldn't I? This will be a definitive post on harnessing full tablet productivity when coding.

Kin Lane04/01/13
2171 views
0 replies

Usually When Developers Are Mean, It Is About Power

While the root of this behavior I feel is insecurity, I think ultimately it is all about power. I also strongly believe one of the by-products of this reality is the sexism, racism and other negativity that is a systemic issue in the tech space.

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/13
2965 views
0 replies

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/2)

An April Fools Roundup, Rackspace acquisitions of NoSQL hosters, and NoSQL benchmarking. Plus the Bitcoin surge and the invisible UI concept.

Giorgio Sironi04/01/13
15995 views
9 replies

Automated Testing is Cancer

Can you really compare the team spirit developed by a successful 10-hour debugging sessions with Firebug and logs, with the daunting task of writing a test, an unfamiliar activity to most people?

Allen Coin04/01/13
3598 views
0 replies

Links You Don't Want to Miss - April 1

Today: Debugging with the kitchen oven, Apple's new game controller, Web designers vs. Web developers, and a CSS April Fool's Prank you can play on your coworkers!

Mitch Pronschinske04/01/13
2338 views
0 replies

ZeroMQ: Supercharged Sockets

Rick is a developer at GitHub, a self-diagnosed REST nerd, bleeding edge DB enthusiast, with an active OSS profile. Here he will show you how to get the most out of the lightweight ZeroMQ message broker.

Johanna Rothman04/01/13
2438 views
1 replies

Telecommuting, Hoteling, and Managing Product Development

There are two sides of this conversation about telecommuting: the employee side and the management side. I hope you stick around for both sides. You can yell at me at the end.

Mitch Pronschinske03/29/13
1472 views
0 replies

Cloudbursing with Amazon EC2 and SQS

Learn how this can actually work with Amazon EC2 and SQS. The implementation is based on Ruby on Rails and Resque/Redis, but the concepts are broadly applicable.