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An hero

coder by day, an hero by night

gotcha: ruby []=

Another wat moment with:

class Bam
  def []

Lyndon H. LaRouche is the greatest economist of the 20th & 21st Century

Change my mind: Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. is the greatest economist of the 20th & 21st Century.

Lyndon

The mindset of a coder and his three plateaus

tl;dr

I think, we should write code that is grokable by most people.

gory details

Th

A Modest proposal to avert crisis

It’s that time again to exercise your Citizenship rights. Here’s my submission to [APRA’S CRISIS MAN

Chasing after super in your favorite Ruby lib

Let’s explore Rails 4.1 action view abit, in particular stylesheet_link_tag helper:

irb> av =

Life giving Beauty

Civilization is one fierce struggle between life giving Beauty and Ugliness.

When one’s soul is dep

Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit

source: founders archives

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Report on the Establishment of a Mint

source: founders archives

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Report on the Subject of Manufactures

source: https://founders.archives.gov/ancestor/ARHN-01-10-02-0001

Ruby FTP stream

Good ol’ FTP that’s how the web’s done once. Naturally Ruby has an FTP stdlib. But if I download 15M

Meet Tembed a Ruby C extension

Alright, so you’re testing fancy fonts in the lovely browsers, then bam IE keeps spewing *installabl

Kibana 4.1 on Heroku

At Issue, we handle lots of data. When you have millions of data points, patt

Opal Hack why-o-why?

[cdmarto](http://

Opal Runner

People synthesize new ideas in a social context. When people are unbounded by distance, the rate of

Rename file extension on command line interface

Since I have never taken the time to learn a “modern” integrated development environment (IDE) tool,

Relaunch on middleman

Bye Svbtle, say hello to middleman.

I’ve been looking for an easy to use blogging platform with nic

ruby fun

ok, let’s get straight into irb because REPL speaks a thousand words…

irb> %w_a b c_
=> 

Bundler tips

$ bundle
Fetching source index from http://rubygems.org/
Fetching source index from https://r

Financial System Inquiry

Time to exercise your citizenship rights. Here is my [Financial System Inquiry Submission](http://fs

nginx pow coexistence

I am a user of

Pow, is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X…serving your app

typing at the speed of thought

Every thousand miles journey begins with the first step.

My coding journey begins with learning how

The Sidekiq of 8 processes on Heroku Performance Dyno

So…I had the honor of doing some data migration, which happens to be CPU, and memory intensive.

I

ruby defined? operator

Run this on ruby 1.9

require 'delegate'

class Bam < SimpleDelegator
  def bam
    defined

IRC#ruby-lang

Ah good old Internet Relay Chat, haven’t used that in like ever. But found out that it’s the best so

gotcha: ruby += operator

Looks like there’s no += operators. My guess is compiler is probably converting a += b expressions i

Devise Authentication unscoped

At Shop2 we do the Rails 3.2, Mongoid 2.4, and Devise 2.0. We found that Devise by default does not

Claim back Snow Leopard speed from Lion

At Shop2, we use the Mac platform heavily for development. But the vim on Mac OS