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Recommended code reading from Ruby Parley

Ruby

• cane: https://github.com/square/cane
• Capybara: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara
• REST Client: https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client
• Savon: https://github.com/savonrb/savon
• Unicorn: https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn

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@ChristinGorman gave this talk at JavaZone: https://vimeo.com/49484333  It's quite good, short, energetic, enthusiastic, 
intelligent, and completely misses the point.  

While it's true that the code she produces is much better than the original, and is quite easy to understand; it fails one 
critical test.  It's not polite.

Polite code is like a well written newspaper article.  It allows you to bail out early.  A well written article has a 
headline, a synopsis, and a set of paragraphs that begin with the high level concepts and get more and more detailed as you 
read through the article.  At any point you can decide: "I get it!  I don't need to read further."  Indeed, this is how most 
people read newspapers or magazines.  The articles are polite, because they allow you to get out quickly.

jimweirich

Refactoring Kata

Here's an interesting refactoring challenge.

Refactor the tangle.c program described at http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/litprog.html with the goal of making it more readable and maintainable.

Some suggested guidelines and constraints. Of course, you can do