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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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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In which the author reviews software to generate MIDI files
Posted by Rob Nelson
February 8, 2007
Since I'm sort of a programmer, and since I'm sort of a musician, I was hoping I
could use my programming skills to make music somehow. Sort of flip the equation
around because normally the 2 endeavours are not even remotely connected. Or are
they?
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Python
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Music
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More useless discussion about computer languages
Posted by Rob Nelson
November 15, 2006
In my last post I bemoaned the state of the
Ruby language. For the sake of completeness
I think I should include some background information,
so that it is more obvious why I feel qualified
to express such an opinion, and what led me to
my conclusions.
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Python
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I attended RubyConf this year
Posted by Rob Nelson
November 2, 2006
I was one of the attendees at RubyConf this year. I admit it.
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In which the author bemoans the state of CSS
Posted by Rob Nelson
October 10, 2006
It's been a while since I've written anything. Months have gone
by as I've been heavily absorbed in the project I last wrote about. I
made by decision about that particular project, but that's not what I
want to write about. Not yet. I want to write about the bane of my existence
as a web programmer. The thing that causes the greatest gnashing of
teeth that I know of. The maddening world of browser incompatabilities,
workaround, known bugs and magical CSS incantations.
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Ruby
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Programming
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The Web
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Rewriting a Java app in Django and Rails
Posted by Rob Nelson
July 24, 2006
I have the luxury of rewriting a
25,000 SLOC Java application in 2 web frameworks at once simultaneously.
Ruby on Rails and
Django. Herein I compare the two.
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Ruby
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Python
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Rails
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Django
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I went to RailsConf 2006 and all I got was a stupid t-shirt
Posted by Rob Nelson
July 21, 2006
I went to Chicago for The Ruby on Rails conference a month ago.
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A few quirks I've run across in Ruby on Rails 1.1
Posted by Rob Nelson
April 5, 2006
Some coding challanges I've recently faced working with Ruby on Rails - and how I worked around them. Whether they were real problems, or just imaginary, superstitious work arounds is unclear.
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Rails
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Ruby on Rails - is good for replacing clunky Jsp apps
Posted by Rob Nelson
October 13, 2005
After rewriting a Jsp application in Ruby on Rails - I'm still impressed with the Ruby on Rails framework
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