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Monthly Archives: April 2008
On Beauty in Code
I was thinking about the topic of beautiful code this morning. There’s a lot of disagreement about what constitutes beauty in code. I’ve watched Marcel Molina Jr. talk about “Plato and Pythagoras”:molina. O’Reilly has published a “whole book on the … Continue reading
Sustainable Development in Ruby, Part 3: Delegation
In our “last episode”:http://avdi.org/devblog/2008/03/31/sustainable-development-in-ruby-part-2-method-injection/ we were augmenting @FMTP::Message@ classes to deal with messages split across multiple packets. As is often the case, fixing one problem revlealed another. What with the unstable weather patterns in Oz – you never know when … Continue reading
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Why Your Social Website Should Support OpenID
On Twitter I bitched about GitHub not supporting OpenID, and both Chris Wanstrath and Giles Bowkett chided me for not making an better argument for it than “it makes my life easier”. The benefits of OpenID seem self-evident to me; … Continue reading
Announcing Ninja-Patching!
Sure, monkey patching is great and all. That period of disbelief, followed by increasing exasperation as the victim maintenance programmer discovers that an object is behaving differently than it’s source code says it should, is satisfying. But sooner or later … Continue reading
