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 [...]