jquery.autocomplete_from_select.js 2 months ago
I wanted to turn an HTML <select> element into an autocomplete. I also wanted to match on more than ...
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"The Website's Slow:" Tips and Tools for Identifying Performance Bottlenecks In Your Rails Apps 2 months ago
Last week at the Houston Ruby User Group I made a presentation called "The Website's Slow" Tips and Tools for Identifying Performance Bottlenecks .
That link is to the slides and notes on each slide mentioning a little about what I said.
Basically I went through a couple of different classes of …
Re: Common Excuses Used To Comment Code and What To Do About Them 3 months ago
Several days ago I wrote about common excuses people use for commenting code and things you can do to get rid of them . I took the stance that rarely is there something so complex that it really requires comments.
In other words, much of the time, comments are crutches for understanding bad …
How To Recover From A Major Blunder 3 months ago
Your boss gave you three weeks to work on a project, along with his expectations about what should be done during that time.
You started the job a week before this assignment, and now is your chance to prove you're not incompetent.
You're a busy programmer, and you know it will only take a …
Are You Running Your Business Like a Greedy Search Algorithm? 3 months ago
A greedy algorithm is an algorithm that follows the problem solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage with the hope of finding a global optimum. In many problems, a greedy strategy does not in general produce an optimal solution, but nonetheless a greedy heuristic may …
When is it OK to use tiny variable names and strange symbols in your code? 8 months ago
It's been said and repeated and retweeted:
Code is read much more often than it is written, so plan accordingly
I think that's sound advice. But is there ever a time when you ought to use cryptic one-letter variable names and strange symbols in your code?
If we're admonished to write code so …
What are the craziest, dumbest, most mind-bending things you've seen or done in programming? 9 months ago
I'm playing with an idea and ...
It's always easier to go with the flow, even if it leads you through the sewers 11 months ago
I just read an excerpt from @avdi 's new alpha Confident Ruby ebook and it prompted some thoughts:
In the article, he talks about dealing with an account_balance where you iterate over the transactions of the account and sum up their amount s to arrive at a final balance.
A special case arrives …
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How to avoid becoming a formerly-employed Rails developer standing in line at the OOP Kitchen last year
Here's a 35 minute recording of the presentation ...
Better OO Design in Two Questions last year
Someone rip this idea apart:
When you write an if statement in one class that's using data from an object of a different class to make a decision, ask yourself:
Would this code be more appropriate in the ...