Ruby • Aug 06, 2012 Live and Let Pry Pry has great support for plugins. Here are some that I've found most useful.
Embedded Systems • Aug 03, 2012 Randomized Testing in Lua with Lunatest Randomized testing can detect the edge cases. I created Lunatest, a testing library for Lua) with a functionality for randomized testing.
Growing as Makers • Aug 01, 2012 Women and the Software Industry: The Truth about Stereotypes, Retention, and the Gender Gap How stereotype threat keeps women from staying in the software industry, and how we can fight it with education, encouragement, and networking.
Functional Programming • Jul 30, 2012 What I Learned on the Way to Clojure My top three Clojure lessons: sequester mutable state; think functionally and be idiomatic; and practice, practice, practice.
Presenter First • Jul 27, 2012 Presenter First in GTK+ and C – Updated for 2012 A sample project that demonstrates Presenter First in the context of GTK+ and C — updated to work with the latest tools.
DevOps & System Admin. • Jul 26, 2012 Standalone Puppet with Capistrano Puppet is a great way to manage server configuration, but the client/server model can be too complex. The standalone Puppet agent can be run with Capistrano.
Embedded Systems • Jul 25, 2012 Vectors: Solving Geometry Problems without Trig If you're coding something that needs to track positions and/or movement and you're _not_ using vectors, you are over-complicating things.
Growing as Makers • Jul 24, 2012 Self-Taught Developers: Are You Missing Your Foundation? Every software developer needs a basic understanding of computer science in four essential areas.
Web Apps • Jul 20, 2012 Simple Natural Sorting in ExtJS A simple method to sort numbers lacking leading zeroes, using a regex string replacement.
Personal Optimization • Jul 19, 2012 Systemantics and How They Apply To Everything The principles in Gall's Systemantics helped me understand malfunctioning systems and gave me a better grasp on the agile manifesto.
UX/Design Practices • Jul 18, 2012 The Information Age – Getting Away With Mimicking the Mechanical Age Using mechanical-age objects to represent technical concepts can be very useful, but it can also be limiting.
.NET / WPF • Jul 16, 2012 Making WPF Controls Modal with Adorners How to create a transparent overlay over a WPF window "behind" a given control, using a subclass of Adorner.
