skmetz

The Kindle format is proprietary. Amazon has an official tool for converting epub to the Kindle format, however it is illegal for us to use it[1] to generate the kindle version of 99 Bottles of OOP.

Therefore, we've had to generate a .mobi file using an unofficial tool, and the result is not as good as the official one.

It's perfectly legal for you to generate the .mobi yourself using Amazon's tool, kindlegen.

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#!/bin/bash

# I edited the ruby lexer (line 637 in the following file...
# [skm@skmair2:/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pygments/lexers/agile.py
# to remove spacial handling of the word 'name'
# so I could use it as a variable/method name.

# This script come from Katrina, with these instructions:
#   I've also attached the presentation.py file which is where the style
#   is defined. The colors are normal hex values, so if you know how you

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Please create a gist for your solution and place the link below:

skmetz

Please create a gist for your solution and place the link below:

https://gist.github.com/skmetz/d9f85bf050d836a89d15

skmetz

####################
# Exploring the Ruby Object Hierarchy
####################
1.class       # => Fixnum
Fixnum.superclass
Fixnum.ancestors

# what is the class of any class?
Fixnum.class  # => Class
Integer.class # => Class

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# This simplest thing is to clone Jim's repo (https://github.com/jimweirich/gilded_rose_kata) and then
# put this file in the root directory.

gem 'minitest', '~> 4.7'

require "minitest/autorun"
require "minitest/reporters"
MiniTest::Reporters.use! MiniTest::Reporters::SpecReporter.new

require_relative './gilded_rose'

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Find this Gist at

• http://bit.ly/careerbuilder_links

Final thoughts

• churn script: git log --name-only | grep *.rb | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
• Bread recipe for Jeff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU
• Conway's law - Sarah Mei's RubyConf 2012 keynote http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1304-rubyconf2012-the-insufficiency-of-good-design
• Make smaller things (it's hard to err in the direction of too small, and you can always merge things together). Fred George,

skmetz

class Bag < Hash
  
  def add(obj)
    increment_count(obj)
  end
  
  def increment_count(obj)
    self[obj] = (cnt = self[obj]).nil? ? 1 : cnt + 1
  end
  

skmetz

From 164f12ca299a407d9d31f32e400daaef12ab736a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sandi Metz <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:01:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] remove case statements, use double dispatch

---
 actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers.rb              |    2 +
 actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb  |   43 ++++++--------
 .../helpers/form_helper_core_extensions.rb         |   59 ++++++++++++++++++++
 .../lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb    |   19 +------

skmetz

From 164f12ca299a407d9d31f32e400daaef12ab736a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sandi Metz <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:01:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] remove case statements, use double dispatch

---
 actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers.rb              |    2 +
 actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb  |   43 ++++++--------
 .../helpers/form_helper_core_extensions.rb         |   59 ++++++++++++++++++++
 .../lib/action_view/helpers/prototype_helper.rb    |   19 +------