Browsing all posts in August, 2007.
Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon!
If you work in a 9-5 environment, then the biggest mistake you can possibly make on a Friday afternoon is to start major changes in your code. Stop! Step away from the keyboard! This one goes right up there with never sending an email late at night (especially when you’re tired or cranky) or discussing [...]
Come see me on Sept 4th
I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking about user authentication at the next Montreal on Rails meetup, scheduled for Tuesday the 4th of September at the McGill MAASS Chemistry building, room 328. The show starts at 18h45 and I think I’ll be the first to present, so come early. Although user authentication may [...]
BASH: How to strip the last character of a word.
The integrators at work had a problem recently with a shell script that generates SQL deployment and rollback scripts on the fly based on SQL patches submitted by developers. The problem was that sometimes the name of an object would include a “(” at the end of it (e.g. “FN_RESET(” instead of “FN_RESET“). Here’s a [...]
Tales from the Computer Club
Last night’s Montreal on Rails meetup (their first ever) was a large step up from the Commodore 64 disk swaps of my youth, but probably a lot more significant as far as self improvement goes. A good 30-35 people showed up and the two presentations given were fantastic. The first presentation topic was improving tests, [...]
Link grab bag for July 2007
Here are some of the links that I bookmarked for the month of July. I highly recommend the 101 meals at the bottom of this list. Development a free service oriented architecture diagram. Some simple SQL rules to live by Agile Bookshelf: Ten must read books Keep your data in the tables! Best programmer quotes [...]