List out the articles/writings that inspired you to be a better developer They write the right stuff http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html Made me think harder about edge case conditions Programmings dirtiest little secret http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html Made me learn ...
I recently discovered Corey Haines great site katacasts.com, and I find it to be an excellent learning resource as well as a source of inspiration. Are there any other sites where I can find videos of people performing katas? ...
When do you feel that it's appropriate/necessary to take deeper dives into the source code of open source tools to gain an understanding of the toolsets that you use? (nHibernate, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks, etc.) ...
I'm working on a project for visually tracking trains. I've refactored the object relationship between the trains, the tracks, and the respective drawing classes for each several times, and I'm not happy with any of them. Maybe you guys can help me out here. Here are the interfaces to the objects I've got now. Tracks: addControlPoi...
I have a more conceptual question in Rails... or Ruby for that matter: Is it best to call a require right before the method that needs it, group my requires at the beginning of the class or somewhere in an initializer when Rails boots? Does it matter from a performance point of view? From a readability point of view? Does it make a dif...