Recently, my friend Avdi Grim posted a great explanation of the Law of Demeter (LoD). It’s been tweeted and posted all over the web, so hopefully you saw it and read it. I’m totally in agreement with his conclusions in that post, and LoD is a code smell…
A Rails view anti-pattern is that they very quickly turn into a nasty tangle of conditional html blocks. Example: <code class="ruby"> <% if logged_in? && @user == current_user %> Simple example, but what is the intention of that code? Why are you really…
This is the easiest, fastest and best-to-develop-in way to get a rails dev stack up and running on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I actually find that it’s pretty easy, if everything is done in the right order. Install XCode Install Homebrew $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https:…
I started writing code in Flash 5. I actually learned OOP in ActionScript, but that’s another post all together. My point is, my first code editor was Flash. Then I moved to Dreamweaver + Homesite. Then I used BBEdit for a while. Then I found Rails and Textmate and I…
I start a lot of projects. More than I’d like to admit. I finish and deploy very few, but I like cranking out the first iteration of an app in a weekend. Sometimes I do it just to learn some new feature, or try out an architecture idea. I…