deathbob

A Friendlier Approach for CSS Color Manipulation

By Chris Eppstein and Michael Parenteau

These ideas build on ones proposed by Tab Atkins but expand the concepts to apply to any color value, not just named colors.

They provide the full power of Sass's color system while preserving a more human-readable system when multiple transformations are applied because the arguments are closer to the operations.

fj

Talks I submitted for Richmond Code Camp 2011.2.

When Not To Follow Best Practices

Too often, software best practices are dictated by others without conveying an understanding of why a particular practice is a good idea. Even worse, these prescriptions don't come with the most critical piece of knowledge: when should you break the rules? A rule that is followed blindly can be worse than no rule at all.

In this talk, we'll remedy this problem. We'll explore several major software development best practices, and walk you through some examples of where they work great. But more importantly, we'll talk about when you shouldn't follow them, and what you might consider doing instead.

To get the most out of this talk, you should be familiar with unit testing and the idea of refactoring, because we'll be proving that we haven't changed the overall behavior of the code during our live demos.

jasonrudolph

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

jimweirich

# When I posted the results of the Roman Numeral Calculator kata
# earlier this week, I said that I felt that the evolution of the code
# through TDD was much more interesting than the final result.  Let me
# explain.
#
# First, some background.  The goal of this Kata is to produce a
# RomanNumeralCalculator object that converts from arabic numbers to
# Roman numerals, and from Roman numerals back to arabic.

  Then { calculate("1").should == "I" }

chebyte

#application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  helper_method :yt_client
  private
    def yt_client
      @yt_client ||=  YouTubeIt::Client.new(:username => user, :password => password, :dev_key => dev_key)
      #you can use the auth method that you want.
    end
end

brentkirby

# A sample Guardfile
# More info at https://github.com/guard/guard#readme

guard 'rspec', :version        => 2, 
               :cli            => '--colour --drb --format documentation --fail-fast', 
               :all_after_pass => false, 
               :all_on_start   => false,
               :keep_failed    => false,
               :notify         => true do
  watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})

brentkirby

 def facebook_like_button
    "<iframe src='http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=#{request.url}&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=35' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;' allowTransparency='true'></iframe>"
  end

bradfordcp

#! /usr/bin/env node

// Require the filesystem library
var fs = require('fs');

// Connect to MySQL
var Client = require('mysql').Client, client = new Client();
client.user = 'rails';
client.connect();
client.query('USE scratch');

jsmestad

# Make gems available
require 'rubygems'

# http://drnicutilities.rubyforge.org/map_by_method/
begin
  require 'map_by_method'
rescue LoadError
  puts "map_by_method is not installed. To enable, run: gem install map_by_method"
end