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Programming Achievements: Suggestions from the GitHub Community

Last week, I published some ideas for leveling up as a developer. I put it on GitHub as a gist, and I encouraged people to modify the list to their liking:

Feel free to fork it and add more achievements. (Make sure they're measurable.)

Or, fork it and mark off the achievements you've already conquered. You might even flag the one that you're currently working on.

So far, more than 270 developers have forked this gist. Many devs have customized their forks as personal to-do lists (e.g., crossing off past achievements and highlighting the goal they're currently pursuing). A number of people have also added new achievements to their forks, indicating additional experiences that they

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A curl example to help explain this Stack Overflow question related to creating a new branch via the GitHub Git Refs API:

Get the SHA of latest commit on the master branch

curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/jasonrudolph/sandbox/git/refs/heads/master \
    -H "Authorization: token REDACTED"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...

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# generate a fresh app
rails -v
rails new whizbang
cd whizbang

# show empty log file
cat log/production.log 

# script/runner successfully writes to the log file
./script/rails runner 'Rails.logger.error("Hello from script/runner")' -e production

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"Why You Don't Get Mock Objects" by Gregory Moeck

RubyConf 2011 | 2011-09-29 | Gregory Moeck (@gregmoeck) | Slides

• Recommended as the best book on mocks: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman & Nat Pryce
• Common arguments against mocks
  • They duplicate implementation
  • They lead to brittle tests
• Mock objects + procedural programming = bad idea
• If you're doing traditional Rails development (which tends to follow more of a "procedural", do-this-and-then-do-that style), mock objects probably aren't for you

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# Search for code containing the term "_cache" in repositories owned by @jasonrudolph
curl -G -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.preview.text-match" \
  https://api.github.com/search/code --data-urlencode "q=@jasonrudolph _cache"

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# A Ruby snippet posted as a comment on http://vitobotta.com/applying-bitwise-operations-to-rspec-testing/


# [ activable?, persisted?, new?,  suspended? ]
# =============================================
combinations = [
  [ false,      false,      false, false      ],
  [ false,      false,      true,  false      ],
  [ false,      false,      false, true       ],
  [ false,      true,       false, false      ],

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# Assuming you're familiar with specifying query and sort options
# via the MongoDB console as shown here, you can specify these same
# options via the MongoHQ RESTful API using the approach shown in the
# file below.

$ mongo staff.mongohq.com:10095/one-rep-max -u REDACTED -p
MongoDB shell version: 2.0.4
Enter password:
connecting to: staff.mongohq.com:10095/one-rep-max
> use one-rep-max;

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Open source, but not an "open source project"

"I am sharing my code. I am not launching an open source project." -- Alan Gutierrez

http://kiloblog.com/post/sharing-code-for-what-its-worth

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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i '' -E "s/[[:space:]]*$//"

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"SOLID Object-Oriented Design" by Sandi Metz @ GoRuCo 2009

Date: May 30, 2009

Video on confreaks.net

Notes

• Design is all about dependencies
• If you refer to something, you depend on it.