In my spare time I’ve been working on a small project called @getencouraged. If you can’t guess by the name, it involves Twitter. You can find it here: http://encourage.ruzuku.com/ The idea behind the project is that you can visit the website and get a stream of encouraging quotes whenever you want.  You can also follow [...]

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis says that a person’s language affects how they think.  Recently, at RubyRX, I heard Neal Ford speak.  He brought this idea up, only he didn’t apply it to spoken languages, but to programming languages.  His assertion was that: More powerful programming languages give you new and different abstractions to work with so [...]

While currently working to learn Ruby, I keep forgetting the meaning of each of the range syntaxes, the difference between .. and … . I’ve developed a mnemonic to help me. 1..10 is the Ruby inclusive syntax, so 10 would be included in the values. 1…10 is the Ruby exclusive syntax, so 10 would be [...]

In elementary school, the question asked of every child is what level are they reading at?  Is it a third grade level? Sixth? Ninth? This concept even appears in Presidential politics, as linguists analyze what level the candidates are speaking at: it is a middle school level, or a high school level? In almost every [...]

I’m sure this has been said before, but I’m going to remind everyone: You should try browsing the web with Javascript turned off and observe how broken many things are.  If you run your own site, see how it responds. At the least, if your site can’t function without Javascript, put in a check to [...]