…always our hope that concrete, substantive programming career questions like these could be asked on Stack Overflow, and some early ad-hoc community polling indicated that career questions might be accepted by the community, but if you look at later poll results , it's clear that the career questions came out juuuust under the cutoff point as determined by the Stack Overflow community.
Well, what about the rest of the Stack Exchange network ? How about …
I've been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic , and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Visual Basic. I have seen the future of programming, my friends, and it is terrible CRUD apps running on Wintel boxes!
Of course, we went on to build Stack Overflow in .NET. That's a big reason it's still as fast as it is. So one of the most frequently …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1058
- The Real Adam: Reflecting on Ruby releases
- Headius: Avoiding Hash Lookups in a Ruby Implementation
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rails Rumble Dates, Active Admin 0.5, Protected Methods in Ruby 2.0
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Tokaido Status Update: Implementation Details
- New Relic: Updates from Ruby Land
…text editors and IDEs for the same coding style.
OverAPI.com - Massive collection of programming (and other) cheat sheets.
The State of Ruby Web Application Servers - A fine roundup hidden in a Stack Overflow answer.
Heroku.json - Create a Heroku app with addons and settings taken from a json description file.
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 344 - Great care, cynicism and greed
- Transcending Frontiers: HTTP Status Codes and RESTful API crafting
…pull requests, etc. He also makes a habit of answering RSpec-related questions on Stack Overflow and Twitter, and he does this all with thoughtfulness, patience, and wisdom.
I can't think of a better choice to lead the RSpec project, so I invited him to do so. Thankfully, SEOmoz , Myron's employer, is allowing him to work on RSpec during work hours, and so he accepted.
In addition to the overall project lead, Myron will be the lead maintainer of the rspec-core, …
- Ruby Inside: The Last Week in Ruby: A Great Ruby Shirt, RSpec Team Changes and a Sneaky Segfault Trick
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Nominate Your Ruby Heroes, Include/Extend, Ruby on Netbeans, Jekyll-Bootstrap, and more
- the evolving ultrasaurus: on choosing RSpec as a test framework
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Here's to the Next 3 Years
- Matthew Bass: Quick ‘n dirty Lindo step for Cucumber
- Mislav's blog: Ruby verbose mode and how it's broken
…Rails, JS and CoffeeScript development. They're designed to be used with Anki, a free open source flashcard viewer.
What is ARGF.class in Ruby 1.9?
A question on Stack Overflow shows off an interesting quirk in Ruby 1.9. Why does " ARGF.class" give such a curious response? Two respondents try to come up with an answer.
- Signal vs. Noise: 37signals invests in The Starter League
- New Relic: I Don't Always Monitor My Rails Apps, But When I Do I Use New Relic
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #914
- Invisible Blocks: Out of Love with Active Record
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: August Tokaido Update
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Why Rails 4 Live Streaming is a big deal
…(invite friends to your application) with Facebook API but did not find any solution on Stack Overflow ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , ...) because Facebook Graph API does not allow to send/reply/delete messages, only allows to view a message !?
Here is the trick.
It's possible to send messages using Facebook Chat API , and if the Facebook friend is offline the message will be displayed in the …
- Ruby Inside: A Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for July 2012 in 97 Links
- Luigi Montanez: On Starting a Startup
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: 8 Hot Facebook Apps Built with PHP (and 1 Built with Rails)
- Alex R. Young : usevim: For hjkl Wizards
- Obie Fernandez: Top 10 Mistakes Companies Make During Acquisitions (notes)
- 4 Lines of Code: Sisyphus Projects
…May ZURBsoapbox speaker was Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow. In case you missed the event, Ryan provided a nice summary of the event as well as a link to the podcast. Addressing small problems may have small solutions, but they add up over time.
Read More: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood: Don't Accept The Status Quo
We're Solving Everyday Problems — Even The Stubborn Ketchup Bottle
There's nothing worse than watching your steaming …
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- JJinuxLand: PyCon: Keynote
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"
- Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Book is here
- Global Nerdy: DemoCamp Toronto 29 Tomorrow! (June 9, 2011)
- MySQL Performance Blog: Aspersa tools bit.ly download shortcuts
…Exchange. They also sought to identify existing problems in other similar systems and fix them with Stack Overflow.
When Stack Overflow was launched, that didn't end Jeff's quest to challenge the status quo. The Q&A site deploys changes on a daily basis, which is crucial to have for a site that's constantly live. To me, unless you're changing all the time, you're kinda dead. If you have a product that hasn't changed in a year, two years, it's …
- ZURB: Week In Review: Bit.ly Redesign, Facebook's Unsupported Browsers and Jeff Atwood's Soapbox Roundup
- Adam Smith's Blog: Character in Blogs
- Coding Horror: The Xanadu Dream
- Ruby-coloured glasses: Go the fuck home...
- SKORKS: A "FizzBuzz" Faux Pas
- Global Nerdy: Ignite Your Coding: This Thursday at 2pm Eastern!
…start out by blogging the solutions to problems you have in your other coding. This is a bit like Stack Overflow (and I recommend you submit your problems to both). However the approach you use on a blog is different to what you use on S/ O. On S/O it's all about "here's the problem" and "here's the answer". A blog post is about the journey. How did you come across the problem? Why was it a problem for you? What did you try to solve it? How did that work out? …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Ruby I/O Performance - what, where and when
- The Majestic Sea Creature: RMU Study Hall #1
- ZURB: Richard White of UserVoice: $250,000 Site Sale on eBay, Killing Goats for 6 Hours, and a Healthy "No"
- Comments on: blog: Networking In Real Life (Meatspace) - FWGC2
- Guillaume Nargeot's Technical Blog: On solving Project Euler - Part 2
- Global Nerdy: The "Ignite Your Coding" Podcast Series
Ryan Bigg promises to 'blow your mind' in his answer on Stack Overflow that shows some Rails 3 routing magic (in the context of versioning an API through the URL).
Sinatra + Heroku = Super Fast Deployment
Darren Jones demonstrates creating a very simple Sinatra app and deploying it on Heroku.
How to Write MiniTest:: Spec Expectations
Getting the Most out of Bundler Groups
Bundler lets you create different 'groups' …
- Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Building Mobile Web Applications With Kendo UI And Engine Yard
- Merbist: Learning from Rails' failures
- Paul Gross's Blog: Untangle Domain and Persistence Logic with Curator
- paperplanes: On Notifications, Log Subscribers, and Bringing Sanity to Rails' Logging
- Dr Nic: Instant new Rails applications with the App Scrolls