Author: Josh Saint Jacque
22
Dec
Web Dev Weekly, vol. 1
by Josh Saint Jacque
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From Reacting on Rails 5 Ways to Deal with Nil Headaches in Ruby Editorials Tutorials & Guides Tools Josh Saint JacqueI’m a Sr. Software...
18
Dec
5 Ways to Deal with Nil Headaches in Ruby
by Josh Saint Jacque
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Ruby is so much fun in many respects. Everything is an object and all our code are just objects passing messages to one another. We...
24
Oct
Resolving Merge Conflicts in Binary Files
by Josh Saint Jacque
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Merge graphic by Bluetip Design. I had this come up today and thought it might be useful for someone else. Have you gone to run git pull...
24
Oct
Small Functions Considered Awesome
by Josh Saint Jacque
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This article is in response to one posted a few days ago by Cindy Sridharan, in which she makes some really well-reasoned arguments about small functions....
24
Oct
Algorithms Exercise: Find the First Duplicate in an Array
by Josh Saint Jacque
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Today’s algorithm comes from code fights. It’s a challenge called firstDuplicate and it goes like this: Given an array a that contains only numbers in the range from...
24
Oct
Ruby & The Strategy Pattern
by Josh Saint Jacque
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The Strategy pattern is the next in our examination of design patterns and how they can be leveraged in Ruby. This pattern is useful for...