Patrick Bacon on Atomic Spin

Ruby

Making Refs in Ruby Using Celluloid Actors

An example of using Celluloid Actors to provide a poor man's Ref (Clojure-like) around an immutable data structure in JRuby to protect shared state.

jRuby

A simple JRuby script showing how to use the vlcj library to playback video full screen on a Linux machine.

jRuby

How using Hamster's efficient, immutable, thread-safe collections can prevent ConcurrencyError exceptions in JRuby.

Web Apps

Tips on configuring the Jasmine unit testing (BDD) framwork for use with Ext JS 4 components and classes.

Web Apps

How to use the dotjs browser extension to write simple user scripts, specifically one to automatically log in to a site under development.

Web Apps

Ext JS 4.0.x provides many ways of rendering content: autoEl, html, tpl/data, renderTpl/renderData. Here are my suggestions on which to use when.

Web Apps

I recently had a live updating problem when moving an Ext JS model from one Ext.data.Store to another. Here's the solution I found.

Web Apps

A technique to parse the request parameters from a Rails log back into a Ruby hash.

Web Apps

I rid a large test suite of intermittent failures. Here are some of the causes of the random failures and what I did to prevent them from failing.

Developer Tools

Resources for using a spaced repetition algorithm to learn Vim and its commands.

Web Apps

Directly authenticate a user from a Cucumber step by setting a cookie using capybara-webkit.

Developer Tools

An "after" syntax file that adds highlighting to double quoted strings in Cucumber feature files when using tpope's vim-cucumber plugin.