Chad Fowler’s talk at Ruby Nation titled The Passionate Programmer has got me thinking. After writing a review over at SpeakerRate, I decided that it would be better to share my thoughts here.
I have mixed feelings about Chad’s presentation. On one hand, discussions along the lines of career development and life decisions are needed in [...]
I just read a cool idea from the Git Internals PDF by Scott Chacon on page 33. If you don’t know how well a merge might work, just create a new branch and try the merge there. If it works, it will be easy enough to merge into your master branch as a [...]
According to a press release from the DC government announcing the new DC Government Open APIs:
“An API is a web protocol that gives programmers anywhere access to data on a web server to build custom applications using that data.”
Not quite. An API is not the same thing as a Web protocol. An API [...]