Round Robin Problem in Lua
A while ago, I solved the round robin following programming challenge in Lua. Here’s the problem, and my solution. ...
Vim Buffer Problem
A few weeks back I tackled the following programming challenge from my colleague Josh Branchaud: Vim Buffer I open up a new Vim buffer and type all the numbers 1 to 10,000, separated by spaces. Then, my cat walks on the keyboard and somehow activates a substitution command that replaces all the ‘0’ digits (zeros) with spaces. If I now sum up all the numbers in the buffer, as delineated by spaces, what is the total? ...
My Annual Review 2015
Here’s my annual professional review covering 2015. ...
Reflecting on Three Years of Programming
This month marks three years since I started programming; I’d like to take a minute and reflect on this milestone. ...
Ceramic Nation
Project announcement! Last night I built a Markov Chain-generated novel, titled Ceramic Nation. ...
The N + 1 Problem
Recently, I was thinking about the N + 1 problem. N + 1 is a performance issue in a web application, where a method call unleashes a torrent of database queries. ...
Learning to Program as a Career Change
A few years ago, I wrote my first computer program. Today, I am a full-time programmer. In this post, I’ll list the resources and ideas that helped me get started. ...
Ruby Symbol#to_proc
What does &: mean in Ruby? In this post, I’ll explain. ...
Code Club: Rack and Rails Server
This week in Code Club we explored Rack, the middleware of the Rails stack. Rack is newsworthy of late due to a change in ownership, prompting inevitable questions about the future. As Rails developers, we wanted to know what Rack really does. ...
Vim or Bust
Starting with this blog post, I will be using Vim as my primary text editor. ...