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Posted on 10th May 2010
Obtiva Apprenticeship: Finish
I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been pretty terrible at keeping this blog up to date, but despite that, my formal apprenticeship is officially over. It’s been a really fun, and exhausting six months. I’ve had the opportunity to work, and live, with a lot of really smart, awesome people. People like Ryan
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Posted on 15th March 2010
Skimming the Fat from Your Product
When I first started building Ignitious, I thought I had a pretty slimed down Minimal Viable Product. Users would be able to create accounts, add repositories to be tracked, manage those repositories, review code. This was completely wrong. I spent a ton of time architecting how the system would manage repositories. While this feature does
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Posted on 30th January 2010
Fun with Delegate Methods
Earlier this week, I needed to expose methods on an instance variable in a Rails Model. The details of why I needed to aren’t as interesting as the options for implementation. Lets’s take a look. The first option is to create individual methods that delegate to the instance variable. This option is probably the easiest
