I have been thinking about software as a craft for some months now. Having gotten a new job working as a quality assurance cum process architect since October, and being surrounded by really cool software devs of varying experience, talent, and skills, I am thinking about how can one acheive the mindset of a master craftsperson in the realm of software development?
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| require 'csv' | |
| module MungeData | |
| # Open a tab-delimited data file converting it into a CSV structure, | |
| # expecting the first row to be headers, | |
| # passing the table to map each row of the table, | |
| # converting each row to a hash and then selecting only | |
| # those items in the array that match the characteristics in the block | |
| def self.extract_years(censusdata, y_start, y_end) |
| <?php | |
| // Initial value for demo | |
| $DPRpriority = array(array('name' => "Crimes Against Persons", 'selected' => false), | |
| array('name' => "Disturbances", 'selected' => false), | |
| array('name' => "Assistance / Medical", 'selected' => false), | |
| array('name' => "Crimes Against Property", 'selected' => false), | |
| array('name' => "Accidents / Traffic Problems", 'selected' => false), | |
| array('name' => "Suspicious Circumstances", 'selected' => false), | |
| array('name' => "Morality / Drugs", 'selected' => false), |
| <h1>Test what gets returned from <select multiple> when using array and scalar</h1> | |
| <?php | |
| if (count($_POST)>0) { | |
| echo "<h2>POST</h2><pre><code>\n"; | |
| var_dump($_POST); | |
| echo "</code></pre>\n"; | |
| } | |
| ?> | |
| <form method="POST"> |
| <?php | |
| error_reporting(-1); | |
| ini_set('display_errors',1); | |
| ini_set('display_startup_errors',1); | |
| echo '<h1>$_POST:</h1>'.PHP_EOL; | |
| echo '<pre><code>'.PHP_EOL; | |
| echo htmlspecialchars(print_r($_POST,true)); | |
| echo '</code></pre>'.PHP_EOL; |
| =begin rdoc | |
| = NUMFIY.RB | |
| *Author*:: Tamara Temple <tamara@tamaratemple.com> | |
| *Since*:: 2013-04-23 | |
| *Copyright*:: (c) 2013 Tamara Temple Web Development | |
| *License*:: MIT | |
| == Description |
| =begin | |
| = myrds.rb | |
| *Copyright*:: (C) 2013 by Novu, LLC | |
| *Author(s)*:: Tamara Temple <tamara.temple@novu.com> | |
| *Since*:: 2013-05-01 | |
| *License*:: GPLv3 | |
| *Version*:: 0.0.1 |
| =begin rdoc | |
| = KAPREKAR.RB | |
| *Author*:: Tamara Temple <tamara@tamaratemple.com> | |
| *Since*:: 2013-05-30 | |
| *Copyright*:: (c) 2013 Tamara Temple Web Development | |
| *License*:: MIT | |
| A kaprekar number satisfies the following condition: |
| def fibonacci(n,l=0) | |
| raise "#{n} is not a non-negative Integer" unless (n.is_a?(Integer) && n >= 0) | |
| STDERR.puts "Debug: level #{l}:\tn=#{n}" if $debug | |
| return n if n <= 1 | |
| (fibonacci(n-1,l+1)+fibonacci(n-2,l+1)).tap{|t| STDERR.puts "Debug: Current calculation: #{t}" if $debug} | |
| end | |
| def factorial(n,l=0) |