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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer
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/ programming-achievements-suggested-by-github-members.md
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August 19, 2011 21:25
Programming Achievements: Suggestions from the GitHub Community
Last week, I published some ideas for leveling up as a developer. I put it on GitHub as a gist, and I encouraged people to modify the list to their liking:
Feel free to fork it and add more achievements. (Make sure they're measurable.)
Or, fork it and mark off the achievements you've already conquered. You might even flag the one that you're currently working on.
So far, more than 270 developers have forked this gist. Many devs have customized their forks as personal to-do lists (e.g., crossing off past achievements and highlighting the goal they're currently pursuing). A number of people have also added new achievements to their forks, indicating additional experiences that they
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/ 2011-09-29-why-you-dont-get-mock-objects.md
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September 29, 2011 18:19
RubyConf 2011: Why You Don't Get Mock Objects
RubyConf 2011 | 2011-09-29 | Gregory Moeck (@gregmoeck) | Slides
- Recommended as the best book on mocks: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman & Nat Pryce
- Common arguments against mocks
- They duplicate implementation
- They lead to brittle tests
- Mock objects + procedural programming = bad idea
- If you're doing traditional Rails development (which tends to follow more of a "procedural", do-this-and-then-do-that style), mock objects probably aren't for you
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/ solid-oo-design-by-sandi-metz-at-goruco-2009.md
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October 23, 2011 13:56
"SOLID Object-Oriented Design" - Sandi Metz @ GoRuCo 2009
Date: May 30, 2009
- Design is all about dependencies
- If you refer to something, you depend on it.
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/ gist:1732424
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February 3, 2012 20:48
Delete trailing whitespace from all files in current directory tree
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| find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i '' -E "s/[[:space:]]*$//" |
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/ git-branches-by-commit-date.sh
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February 12, 2012 20:40
List remote Git branches and the last commit date for each branch. Sort by most recent commit date.
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| # Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279 | |
| for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r |
"I am sharing my code. I am not launching an open source project." -- Alan Gutierrez
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/ mongo-console
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June 9, 2012 13:07
Passing Query and Sort Params to MongoHQ RESTful API
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| # Assuming you're familiar with specifying query and sort options | |
| # via the MongoDB console as shown here, you can specify these same | |
| # options via the MongoHQ RESTful API using the approach shown in the | |
| # file below. | |
| $ mongo staff.mongohq.com:10095/one-rep-max -u REDACTED -p | |
| MongoDB shell version: 2.0.4 | |
| Enter password: | |
| connecting to: staff.mongohq.com:10095/one-rep-max | |
| > use one-rep-max; |
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/ snippet.rb
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August 18, 2012 13:54
An alternative to the "ugly mirror" shown in http://vitobotta.com/applying-bitwise-operations-to-rspec-testing/
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| # A Ruby snippet posted as a comment on http://vitobotta.com/applying-bitwise-operations-to-rspec-testing/ | |
| # [ activable?, persisted?, new?, suspended? ] | |
| # ============================================= | |
| combinations = [ | |
| [ false, false, false, false ], | |
| [ false, false, true, false ], | |
| [ false, false, false, true ], | |
| [ false, true, false, false ], |
This gist is a collection of my rough notes from Strange Loop 2012.