A story about building an application (including a brief discussion of functional programming)
Posted by Rob Nelson
July 9, 2008
I write Ruby on Rails applications for a living now. This is a pointless story about writing a section of one such application. I wrote this article for work. I've duplicated it here for no particular reason. It is slightly different here though - including a misguided discussion about functional programming that didn't go over very well at work.
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Ruby
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Programming
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I found an old dream journal from 2005
Posted by Rob Nelson
April 18, 2008
I found an old dream journal that dates back to 2005. I had forgotten about it. Most of the dreams I had completely forgotten about - and some of them are funny. Or just strange. Here they are listed by date with a few ancillary comments.
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Dreams
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Here is a list of my 18 favorite albums
Posted by Rob Nelson
April 18, 2008
Just for fun - this is a list of my favorite 18 albums - as of right now. They are not in any particular order.
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Music
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A few tricks with Ruby and Meta-programming
Posted by Rob Nelson
April 18, 2008
I recently had an article published on another blog at another web site. It's a new company I've been working for for a few months. I'm cross posting it for no particular reason. The original article is
here
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Ruby
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Programming
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A dream involving a statue of Buddha and gardening
Posted by Rob Nelson
January 28, 2008
This is a dream I had where a statue of Buddha projected a movie about gardening. I'm not that interested in gardening - or for that matter - Buddha. So I'm not sure why I had the dream.
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Dreams
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Being a rant - with some possible explanations
Posted by Rob Nelson
January 25, 2008
Programming a web application is a horrid mish-mash of
languages, standards, and browser incompatibilities. It's chaos.
It sucks. Somebody needs to call it like it is.
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Programming
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The Web
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Yawns should be named
Posted by Rob Nelson
December 12, 2007
Everybody yawns. I've noticed there are different kinds of yawns. This is an attempt to classify them.
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Misc
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Clark D. was born October 16th, 2007
Posted by Rob Nelson
October 23, 2007
I recently took part in the birth of a child, my own
son, Clark. My wife had a C-section, and I attended
the procedure. Clark weighed in at 9 pounds 3 ounces.
Herein is a brief narrative of the events of the day.
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Clark
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A dream involving Freddie Prinze and Andy Warhol
Posted by Rob Nelson
October 10, 2007
A dream involving Freddie Prinze and Andy Warhol. I have no explanation for this or any analysis - it just seemed funny.
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Dreams
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Part 2 of a serialized history
Posted by Rob Nelson
September 13, 2007
In which the author transforms from a code hack
into an advanced code hack
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Programming
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Misc
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I had a dog named Tetanus
Posted by Rob Nelson
August 16, 2007
Being a eulogy for the recently departed Tetanus (11/26/1991 - 8/13/2007). He lived for more than 15 years.
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Misc
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I've been programming for 10 years now.
Posted by Rob Nelson
August 14, 2007
I got an Art degree in college. How did I end up as a programmer?
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Programming
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Misc
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What is the best way to document code?
Posted by Rob Nelson
July 2, 2007
I've tried various methods of documenting my code - but
I have not been satisfied with any method. I don't think this is a
problem the industry has solved yet.
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Programming
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They are taking over
Posted by Rob Nelson
May 10, 2007
There are more and more people getting this bogus
certification and calling themselves a 'Project Manager'. They are trying
to take over the industry. What is the deal?
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Programming
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Bureaucracy
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IDEs come and go. I've used a lot of them, and never liked any of them
Posted by Rob Nelson
March 28, 2007
In which the author explains why Emacs and/or Vim are still
the best programmer editors around - but maybe not for long. Includes a brief review
of the Wing and Komodo IDEs.
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Programming
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