Notes on Life, ‘Puters and Hawaii
You have heard of “Spaghetti code” if you’ve studied procedural or scripting-based programming. A similar thing can happen in Ruby with it’s polymorphism and the super-dynamic behavior. Ruby on Rails, combined with many plugins, can become a frustrating “Lasagna” sometimes with all these dynamic classes, dynamic instances and dynamic behavior. All [...]
Posted on October 20th, 2007 by dysinger
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In working with my new hires, I have found the try-and-buy works really well for the company. 50% of developers don’t make it during the trial period. It’s really important to try out new developers on a paid trial for a while. There is no interview long enough to make a [...]
Posted on October 16th, 2007 by dysinger
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We took the night ferry over from Ireland to the north of France. From there we hopped on a train to Paris. Paris was fun and we spent three days there looking at the sites. Again, I had to work part time so I didn’t get to see as much as others. [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2007 by dysinger
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