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This is a challenge by Molly Holzschlag concerning how the Web is taught around here. Even though I tend to be opinionated, things have been happening that I consider important to a better future.
Learning the craft of the Web has always been hard. It has taken a lot of blog posts, trial and error, inspiration, books, etc. to slowly progress; all of this… after hours.
You must get things done at daytime. Innovation costs time that doesn’t exist. At least that’s what most companies believe around here in the last 5 years. Money is all leaders see, there’s not the time nor the money to delve into a better process or a better performance. Why bother if the pay is low and things are steady? This is a cultural issue and that might just be the hardest impediment that our people has to clear.
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December 26th, 2011 —
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For those who don’t care about astrology, try to follow along; the principle is pretty practical.
TL;DR – Being bossed around compromises inovation, creativity and it destroys one’s true sense of purpose. Don’t let that destroy you.
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November 12th, 2011 —
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A Ruby developer I met recently told me that the majority of us Rubyists skip documentation in favor of Test Driven Development tools. Some business are still pretty waterfall oriented and demand all the requirements gathering, business analysis and design beforehand, as well as hard documentation with lots of funny terms and fancy diagrams.
I told her I was looking forward to studying Cucumber and Rspec in order to improve my skills. She asked me how I did documentation using those tools and I answered: “Cucumber and Rspec are the documentation”. As she twisted her nose I could tell I had to research more on the topic; so I did.
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August 2nd, 2011 —
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I have been working with Utopic Farm‘s jQuery Form Validator for a while, it’s a good plugin. But I have been forced to change it to suit my needs. I thought it would be a great idea to just fork it and release the changes I made previously.
I asked Tolga Arican what the license what kind of license they had for the plugin, they said none. I decided to fork the project and host it on Github, so I could make improvements to the plugin and share them with everyone. Enjoy! Props to the Utopic Farm team for building such a great plugin.
June 9th, 2011 —
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I told you before I would post a video on the development of Blogrite after Rubynorte. So here it is.
Topics included
- It works!
- Well, sort of. The first request is a 200, all the other ones throw me a 404 CSS file!
- ERB for rendering the templates.
- Classes over modules for extension?
I appreciate your feedback, you can clone the project at Github.
After fixing the bugs I still have, I intend on fetching the list of posts at the root. Or I can let the final user create an index.txt for a landing page.
May 24th, 2011 —
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