Smashing Magazine publishes A Beginner's Guide to Ruby

Hippoish24 · 2012-05-25T15:19:44.129256+00:00

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Double Post + Unix Epoch.

KerrickLong · 2012-05-25T09:59:46.628195+00:00

Screenshot's up!

KerrickLong · 2012-05-25T09:52:08.843787+00:00

Darklooks (as distributed in Debian Squeeze), with Tango icons.

KerrickLong · 2012-05-25T08:47:04.527027+00:00

1. Good point. Changed it to a gem dependency.

4. My plan is to finish The Well Grounded Rubyist, then look into Test::Unit (know any good resources?), then learn Rails.

6. I just moved all of the Google class code into one file, since it kinda belongs there, and listed each file individually. Neat trick using git, though. :)

7. Yeah, a major refactor will come in soon where I write tests and documentation for the whole thing. And I won't write anything major like this again without tests and documentation.

KerrickLong · 2012-05-25T07:28:22.512158+00:00

Because they used button styles to make a diagram, and button styles have hover effects.

rspix000 · 2012-05-25T06:27:32.190924+00:00

In July 2009, Yahoo! signed a deal with Microsoft, the result of which was that Yahoo! Search would be powered by Bing. This is now in effect.

Source

dansul · 2012-05-25T06:01:44.524738+00:00

The seeming consensus over in /r/TheoryOfReddit is that karma whores usually tend to simply be attention whores. Their cumulative score, be it per-post or per-user, doesn't matter to them as much as simply reaching the top and being seen.

dansul · 2012-05-25T04:48:21.711176+00:00

Probably the main reason they don't advertise Chrome on their download page. IE's company has paid them money, Firefox's company is a non-profit, Opera's company hasn't done them any harm, but Chrome's company is their competitor.

KerrickLong · 2012-05-25T04:37:12.937013+00:00

It looked fun, It has Rails (which seems to have more learning tools than Django), and it has plenty of books geared towards those who've never programmed before. And, if I ever decide to get a job with it, it seems like a language that'll get me hired in a small-ish web firm, rather than a corporate monstrosity.

WowbaggerMM · 2012-05-24T23:26:44.528956+00:00

At first I thought some sort of Christian video had gotten posted by mistake. Keeping His Word

Reddevil313 · 2012-05-24T23:11:42.463073+00:00

It's built into Chrome. Go to chrome://flags, and enable the following:

Focus existing tab on open Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS

Typing a URL of an existing tab into the omnibox results in refocusing the tab instead of loading in the current tab.

KerrickLong · 2012-05-24T15:55:15.041975-07:00

I... I'm sorry for making you stalk me?

tefster · 2012-05-24T22:24:18.895126+00:00

Most important question answered at 2:00 - Open source hardware? Not now because they use a chip that's not generally available, maybe in the future.

KerrickLong · 2012-05-24T22:06:57.508487+00:00

Haha, I actually add 1 to everything I show the user (and subtract 1 from everything the user inputs) so that the first result appears to be result 1. :P

KerrickLong · 2012-05-24T21:24:42.915132+00:00

It's a one-trick pony because I put it together in ~12 hours (including time spent researching, eating, taking breaks, etc.) and I'm a brand new programmer. This is my first Ruby project--in fact, my first non-JavaScript project.

KerrickLong · 2012-05-24T14:21:59.165860-07:00

Thank you for this list. This is my first gem, and in fact my first non-trivial ruby project.

For some reason I thought fewer gem dependencies would be better.
I mentioned that it's only tested on 1.9.3, but yes I should mention specific incompatibility with 1.8.
I'll look into that.
I'll be honest, I don't know a thing about testing. I'll definitely look into that, because automated testing sounds so much easier than manually going through and using the app over and over in different ways after every change.
I'll keep that in mind, I didn't know of that convention.
So I should just list each file individually?
I'm sorry. I know. I wrote it overnight. I'm sorry. I know. I wrote it overnight. I'm sorry. I know. I wrote it overnight. I'm sorry. I know. I wrote it overnight.
I only did it because I wanted to keep lines under eighty characters. I didn't know about the backslash bit.
I'll look into it.
I'll look into it.

KerrickLong · 1 day

Holy shit.

KerrickLong · 1 day

Made it myself! http://kerrick.github.com/google/

KerrickLong · 1 day

Made it myself! http://kerrick.github.com/google/

KerrickLong · 1 day

Sorry, I didn' know if /r/google would appreciate the link to the CLI app as much. :P

Mind_Virus · 1 day

If I continue to make so little money that I am annually evaluated to pay $0/month, the remaining balance will be canceled after 25 years. I don't see anything about taxes on the forgiven amount, though.

That said, I doubt I'll be earning this little for 25 years. Hell, I hope I start earning more ASAP. IBR is a good way to cushion against the problems many recent grads are having getting jobs, because it's universal--no worrying about asking for a deferment and hoping you get one.

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