jamesgary

How to Talk to Developers

Ben Orenstein (@r00k)

Obey Law of Demeter

• Reduces coupling
• Enables refactoring

Throw something weird at people to keep their attention. Bored people don't learn anything, so focus on entertainment over being informative.

Write like a newspaper

jamesgary

Dissecting Ruby with Ruby

Richard Schneeman (@schneems)

• Get into a library
  • bundle open wicked
  • Make sure you've set your $EDITOR
• Forget fancy debuggers
  • All you need is puts
  • A rubyist's tracer round: puts "================="
• Notation

jamesgary

module AwesomeResource
  attr_reader :awesome_attributes

  def initialize(attributes={})
    @awesome_attributes = attributes
    @awesome_attributes.keys.each do |method_name|
      create_method(method_name.to_sym) do
        @awesome_attributes[method_name]
      end

jamesgary

App = Ember.Application.create();

App.IndexRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
  model: function() {
    return EmberFire.Array.create({
      ref: new Firebase("https://dp-ember-chat.firebaseio.com/")
    });
  }
});