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Duck Typing: The Duck Always Bites Twice

These days I’m noticing myself saying more and more frequently that Duck Typing is great, except when it’s not. An amusing issue that briefly cropped up...

0 replies - 3372 views - 10/28/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles

Caching for Fun and Profit. Or, Why Would You Ever Cache a Page for 5 Seconds?

There are a lot of ways to cache data. You can cache a piece of data, a query, a page fragment, an entire page, or an entire website. You can cache...

0 replies - 5334 views - 10/03/12 by Dan Wilson in Articles

Even Boring Form Data Can Be Interesting (For A Developer)

What could be more boring than capturing credit card data on a form? Well, it's actually not that boring -- since you may want to encrypt this particular data,...

0 replies - 2988 views - 09/24/12 by Alan Skorkin in Articles

Concurrency

My first chance to do serious concurrent programming was using C++ on Windows in the 90s, on NT, where async programming was done with IOCompletionPorts....

1 replies - 3801 views - 09/19/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Through the Eyes of a Newbie

The wife is interested in learning programming so she has been doing the Code Academy JavaScript course. It’s incredible to observe a person...

0 replies - 1071 views - 09/19/12 by Rob Galanakis in Articles

Fixing Bugs – There’s No Substitute for Experience

We've all heard that the only way to get good at fixing bugs in through experience – the school of hard knocks. Experienced programmers aren’t afraid...

1 replies - 8062 views - 09/08/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Want to Capture Screenshots in Ruby?

Use this Gem to programmatically take screenshots of websites with this completely open source and free library. We have also provided easy-to-follow...

0 replies - 2787 views - 08/09/12 by Dominic Skinner in Uncategorized

More on Removing the OS Barrier with PaaS

The content of this article was originally written by Adron Hall on the New Relic blog. Welcome to a double feature blog entry for Part 3. I’ve gotten a lot...

0 replies - 2061 views - 08/08/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Building Your First MongoDB App in Ruby: An OSCON 2012 Tutorial

This is a 3 hour tutorial I wrote for and gave at OSCON 2012. Here is the summary: This tutorial will introduce the features of MongoDB by building a...

0 replies - 5693 views - 07/29/12 by Steve Francia in Articles

The Duck is a Lie

What follows is my experience with Java, PHP and Ruby. I mainly use PHP as a dynamic language that supports duck typing but also the definition of...

0 replies - 6351 views - 06/25/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Convert All Keys In Multidimensional Hashes In Ruby (non-recursive Method)

0 replies - 3266 views - 04/25/12 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

How to Use JRuby for Rails Apps on Cloud Foundry

The content of this article was originally posted by Thomas Risberg at the Cloud Foundry blog. JRuby Rails applications can be deployed to CloudFoundry.com...

0 replies - 5379 views - 04/19/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Iterate Two Arrays Simultaneously In Ruby

0 replies - 2645 views - 04/17/12 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

99 Bottles Of Beer

0 replies - 2415 views - 04/10/12 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

A Comprehensive Developer's Guide to Payment Card Industry Compliant Web Apps

When I first started working at CashStar.com three and a half years ago, I had heard about PCI before, but I didn't really know what that meant. Since we...

0 replies - 7465 views - 03/19/12 by Ken Cochrane in Articles