I work with codebase that has revisions going back over five years. Like dog years, the age of code adds up quickly. A five year old source file is like fifteen in code years. In that amount of time, boat loads of engineers have come and gone, checked in fixes and bugs [...]

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of July 2008. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog. The Good Building Rails Applications with Aptana RadRails Rails on IntelliJ Learn Ruby on Rails From Scratch: Week 1 JRuby on Rails: Zero to Production in 15 Minutes On The App Store Rails Behind [...]

The Browser War is flaring up once again with the release of Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a new browser based on many freely available open source components such as WebKit and Firefox. Chrome is bare bones, chromeless, browser with very little UI fluff and decoration. It is interesting to note that [...]

Vinh Phat was one of my professors in school. On the first day of lecture, he goes of into his philosophy of learning, a philosophy of life long learning, where the answers he gives are not the answers, but clues, for he says he is more a guide than a teacher. He went [...]

Here is a pile of quotes and anti-anecdotes relating to software development and programming in general. The quotes where compiled by digging through the mining the rants from Juixe TechKnow. The collection of programming quotes is available as a PDF document and can be found on scribd. Your code does not start at the [...]

Devshop has created a satirical video of developers in tough times. The video is of software developers standing on street intersections or sitting on the floor outside coffee shops holding up small cardboard signs. Here is some of the text from the cardboard signs. We’re 4 months into a 5 month schedule and I [...]

Every production application I have been involved with has made use of a database. As a programmer, you don’t have to be a DBA, but just as with software development you need to adhere to a core set of database best practices. Below are a few of the best practices I try to [...]

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time…The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. Tom Cargill Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. Larry Wall Measuring programming [...]

On this month’s issue of Fast Company, Robert Scoble’s business article was a stream, or better yet, a dribble of blabbering twitter messages. And the Scobleizer bunny gets paid for this. Since twitter does not archieve and make available all your tweets I thought I do a scoble and blog my tweets for [...]