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Contest: Your reply to NoneSuch
Folks seem to have gotten a kick out of NoneSuch. I thought it was particularly cool how many people opted to play along. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m giving a talk at the upcoming Day Camp 4 … Continue reading
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Rock’em Sock’em Ockham
Inspired by “this talk by Jim Weirich”:http://mtnwestrubyconf2008.confreaks.com/15weirich.html: !/images/rockoutockout.jpg! Image by “scottfeldstein”:http://flickr.com/photos/scottfeldstein/, “some rights reserved”:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en. (For the shaving nerds, this poster features the Merkur Hefty Classic, a razor I recently acquired and am so far pretty happy with.)
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
