Creating Powerful Command Line Tools in Ruby etc.

When it comes to software development, a majority of the tools available to us are command-line applications. It is also well worth noting that many of the tools used on the command line are quite powerful in what they can accomplish, from the trivial to the tedious. Taking this further, you can combine command-line applications […]

As I’ve mentioned before, my current study focus is marketing. Marketing naturally drags along with it a penumbra of related topics, including business models and work on personal focus and productivity. When I’m studying a new topic, where I don’t even have a lay of the land,  the first phase of my research typically takes […]

77% of developers say Continuous Integration is integral to their everyday work – we break down what that means.

Understanding different types of existing float grid systems, finding their strengths/weaknesses, and discovering something better.

This blog post was written under the Pusher Guest Writer program. A popular feature of chat applications is the ‘who’s typing’ feature, which displays the name or username of who is currently typing. In this tutorial, we will walk through how to build a ‘who’s typing’ feature in a chat application using Pusher with Javascript. […]

If you’re reading this, dear Devop, you can probably remember a time before you were a Devop, or a Site Reliability Engineer, or whatever. Back to a time when you were a Systems Administrator, or a Unix Technician, or an Infrastructure Engineer; when your job involved switch blades and RAID cards, and you had to worry about LUN alignment and BIOS configurations.

One often-overlooked feature of Ruby's hashes is that you can use any object as a hash key, not just strings and symbols. In this post we examine how Optcarrot, the Ruby NES emulator, uses this feature to optimize its mapped memory implementation.

Today I am more than a little excited to share an interview I conducted over email with Håkon Wium Lie.

Balance is another great example of how viewers give physical dimensions to non-physical things. Balance is usually described as how “heavy” elements feel to the viewer according to how elements are arranged.

15 Weird Things About Ruby That You Should KnowBy Jesus CastelloRuby is an amazing language with a lot of interesting details that you may not have seen before...…in this post I compiled some of those details for your own enjoyment in a nice-looking list :)​ 1 Heredoc + Method If you have some data that you […]