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Consider you are reading a chunk of code, and you see a method mock_person('jack', 1, 24, 72, 180) You’ll probably wonder what the parameters are. As you know, you should avoid using magic constants in your code; they make it less readable,... Read more »

There are two kinds of professional programmers: those who have learned of Steve Yegge ’s rants and those who should. If you really don’t know who he is, let me put it short: Steve Yegge is a Googlean programmer and an überprolific... Read more »

See my political compass. Odd. I thought I’d be more authoritarian and right-winged, but the questions were chosen such that I appear more liberal than I (and maybe some of my friends as well :) thought. Read more »

Do you know the (oddly) funny feeling of having understood something, only to understand later that you didn’t understand it the last time, though some of the stuff you understood was correct, AND having felt that way many times about the same... Read more »

Ok, maybe the title has a bit too much grandeur in it, but let me get to the point. One of Ruby’s major strength lies in it’s use of blocks. They allow the programmer to benefit from lazy evaluation, or to use... Read more »

Ok, it might be a tad early, but we did have our First Meeting last night and it was pretty awesome. We expected a total of four to five people according to quick e-mail exchange we had few days before the event,... Read more »

Ok, this is short. I just found basicstate.com, a free, simple web-site monitoring system. You don’t need to download any software, just register and use their service. It monitors your web site and sends alerts for any web server failures. It is... Read more »