chendo

What did you do to get good at Rails?

I just kept at it and worked with it on a professional basis. Constantly learning about new things and working with people who do Rails is also a good start.

Who taught you what you know?

The internet, friends/coworkers and Dr Nic. That, and trial and error. I guess one of the benefits of Rails is many things are implicit and make sense, but sometimes it has quirks and the internet documents a lot of these quirks.

Do you have any fond (or not so fond) memories of your learning experiences?

chendo

/* Instructions:
 *
 * Download to ~/.mailplane.css
 * `defaults write com.mailplaneapp.Mailplane WebKitUserStyleSheetLocationPreferenceKey -string ~/.mailplane.css`
 * `defaults write com.mailplaneapp.Mailplane WebKitUserStyleSheetEnabledPreferenceKey -bool true`
 *
 */

body {
  font-family: Helvetica; !important

chendo

# Symbol to Proc is a mutha' fucking dirty hack. It brings the indirection
# that we hated from Pearl to Ruby. How it made it into core I don't know.
# Anyway, rather than bitch and moan too much, here is an alternative method
# which is much more expressive and has the same number of characters. The
# name pick comes from Rebol, though it functions more like select there.

# Benchmark:
#       user     system      total        real
#   0.200000   0.000000   0.200000 (  0.212325)
#   0.470000   0.000000   0.470000 (  0.475471)

chendo

window.Widget.Trending: class TrendingWidget extends Widget
 
  constructor: (config) ->
    Widget.Trending.instance: this
    @template: """
      <div class='widget small trending'> 
        <ul>
          {{#topics}}
          <li class='down'>{{name}}</li>
          {{/topics}}

chendo

class SiriProxy::Plugin::Twitter < SiriProxy::Plugin
  # this watches when in the default context
  listen_for /tweet (.*)/ do |data, tweetText|
    show_rich_snippet do
      image 'http://cl.ly/1l040J1A392n0M1n1g35/content' # this just makes things looks nice, but is obviously specific to my username
      text tweetText
    end
 
    # this locks out other plugins until a confirmation or deny
    confirm do

chendo

class SiriProxy::Plugin::Twitter < SiriProxy::Plugin
  # this watches when in the default context
  listen_for /tweet (.*)/ do |data, tweetText|
    show_rich_snippet do 
      image 'http://cl.ly/1l040J1A392n0M1n1g35/content' # this just makes things looks nice, but is obviously specific to my username
      text tweetText
    end
    # this locks out other plugins until a confirmation or deny
    confirm do
      confirmed do

chendo

$ curl -s https://gist.github.com/chendo/6545822/raw/time.sh | bash
== Fastly ==

DNS:  0.003 CONNECT:  0.217 REQSENT: 0.650 STARTTX:  1.378 TOTAL:  3.739
X-Served-By: cache-v44-ASH
X-Cache: MISS

DNS:  0.001 CONNECT:  0.248 REQSENT: 0.746 STARTTX:  1.018 TOTAL:  3.734
X-Served-By: cache-v44-ASH
X-Cache: HIT