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A criticism of DHH's post about Dependency Injection. http://codeulate.com/2013/01/a-criticism-of-dhhs-post-on-dependency-injection/ …
Every time a vim user hits an arrow key, Bram Moolenaar kills a poor Ugandan child.
"Design patterns that ease change are a waste of time! Oh, also, we had to rewrite our flagship product because it was too hard to change."
Programmers: let's all agree to never be embarrassed for needing to go check the docs.
Patching Rails 101: Improving Documentation (screencast) -- http://bit.ly/fhGup5
Wish your Rails tests ran faster? Sign up and I'll send you an occasional email with techniques that worked for me: http://goo.gl/FCeIg
Recommendation: stop attending massive, bland events like RailsConf and patronize lovingly-crafted EU confs like Nordic Ruby and Railsberry.
If you hate slow Rails tests, you'll love my mailing list. Learn what I know about writing blazing-fast test suites: http://www.fastrailstests.com .
If you try super super hard, you might still end up with code that sucks. If even one person on your team doesn't care, it's guaranteed.
I think the best software development technique I learned in the last year is admitting instantly when I don't understand something.
Shorter methods. Smaller classes. Fewer locals. Few conditionals. Tell, don't ask. Tell, don't ask. Tell, don't ask.
Programmers--you should probably know about visual block mode. http://t.co/vrskj5yp
Warnings emitted during test runs are broken windows, and should be addressed with haste and vigor.
For #BostonIO folks: How to survive your first week in vim -- http://t.co/PARklzQ4
Entrepreneur pitching a group: "I'm not a coder, so I don't know how to do this, but I know it's not that hard."
God this is a great talk. "Simple Made Easy" by Rich Hickey. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy ….
"I believe a programmer needs to write about 1500 [tests] to burn into her brain the basic patterns of good [ones]." http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/not-just-slow-integration-tests-are-a-vortex-of-doom …