TextMate shortcuts you should be using « require ‘brain’
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TextMate shortcuts you should be using require brain A great article on some obvious and not so obvious textmate shortcuts.
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developer, teacher, entrepreneur
Be pragmatic with your time
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So you’re trying to write that awesome new feature you’ve been chomping at the bit for, right? Your gonna get it done and it’s gonna have so many bells and whistles! Let’s say you give yourself two weeks to get it done, but at the end of one week you realize you just can’t finish it in one more week…
Continue ReadingFun with ActiveRecord
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Recently, I’ve been working on a medical provider (doctors, pharamcies, hospitals) matching system at change:healthcare . We have a clean/pristine medical provider table, but we have claims from insurance companies that don’t match up right. Most of the unmatched claims come from mis-spellings, mis…
Continue ReadingMocking and Stubbing can be evil
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Lately I’ve been seeing some things that make me worry. Mocking and stubbing can be very helpful tools when you use them right, but I am not seeing them used right! Why stubbing is dangerous Don’t get me wrong, stubbing is good when you need to decouple one class from another, or your app from a…
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