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…
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon!
Posted in Development, Thoughts
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…
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Posted in Development
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…
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Posted in Development
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…
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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…
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Posted in Development, Links
