In my previous post on Loop Abstractions in D I showed you how we could make loop constructs abstract, in a similar way which is common in Ruby. The example I used as a model was the retryable method from Cheah Chu Yeow. His version is customizable in a way that let you define the [...]
Paul W. Homer has a post up discussing essential development problems. While this is a huge subject (somewhat reflected by the size Paul’s article,) I’d like to emphasize one of the things he touches: the lack of understanding the users’ problem domain.
The biggest problem in most systems today is the total failure of the programmers [...]
I haven’t been happy with the way code snippets look on my blog. Yesterday I decided to do something about it, but, which is typical me, the number of changes got a lot more than I set out for, including a Wordpress upgrade and a new theme.
After a couple of minor layout and style sheet [...]
One of the great things with Ruby is the natural way in which you can hide looping constructs behind descriptive names. Like the retryable example that Cheah Chu Yeow gives on his blog.
retryable(:tries => 5, :on => OpenURI::HTTPError) do
open(’http://example.com/flaky_api’)
end
Notice how elegantly the loop logic is abstracted; There’s no need to look at the [...]
I love Rails Migrations. Not only do they help making database development a part of an agile development process, they also make my life easier as a developer with shallow knowledge in the field of database programming. But, even with frameworks like these, I think we’re still dealing with databases on a very low level.
Conceptually, [...]
Isn’t life funny? Two weeks ago I stated my opinion that unit-testing graphical user interfaces isn’t worth the trouble. Now I find myself doing it, writing unit-tests for GUI components.
What happened, did I come to my senses or go crazy (pick the expression that fits your point of view) during Christmas holidays? No, I still [...]
