What I've Learned From Programming Languages

I just finished up learning about fourteen new programming languages, and while my head may still be spinning, I've been struck by one t...

Tech Book Face Off: Confident Ruby Vs. Metaprogramming Ruby 2

I'm always on the lookout for books that will help me improve my programming skills by learning to write cleaner, clearer code. For this...

Explore Simple Game Algorithms with Color Walk: Part 1

A few years ago, Jennifer Dewalt did a project where she created 180 websites in 180 days, one every day for half a year, to learn how to pr...

A Barely Adequate Guide to the Google Blogger API using Ruby

For some time now, I've been wanting to do some things with this blog that are just too tedious to do by hand. For instance, I'd lik...

Tech Book Face Off: Design Patterns in Ruby Vs. Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

I've been in a good book-reading mood lately, so I'm writing up yet another Tech Book Face Off. This time I wanted to dig into some ...

A Microsecond in the Life of a Line of Code

We sit atop a large technology stack. Every layer in that stack is an abstraction of the layer below it that hides details and makes it easi...