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Archive for October, 2007

GoogleMap geocoding challenges

Posted in Ruby on Rails on October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Like most of the programmers that have to deal with languages other than english, I wish we were building english-only web applications, and support only english strings. I live in Quebec and almost all my projects have to deal with the french accents. It obviously brings a lot of challenges when dealing with [...]

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Textmate shortcuts

Posted in Ruby on Rails on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Oh my god. I finally found the shortcut I was missing for so long: Ctrl-Shift-T. It brings a list of all the methods in the class I’m currently editing. Man, I was dreaming about this feature almost every night. Everyday we learn something, so this is what I learned today (among [...]

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Concatenating strings

Posted in Ruby on Rails on October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was looking at some Railscasts.com podcasts and Bryan is using an interesting way to concatenate 2 strings, using an array and a join operation.

def full_name
[first_name, last_name].join(‘ ‘)
end

Now, I was wondering if this was a bit overkill since it has to allocate an Array, then loop through it and build the string. [...]

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Railscasts rocks!

Posted in Ruby on Rails on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Another great discovery: railscasts.com. Over 73 small video podcats on different hints for Ruby on Rails. If you are a beginner or a senior RoR developper, you will for sure learn something from those podcasts. They are also accessible through iTunes, so you can subscribe to the podcast and have them sent to [...]

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iPhone review

Posted in Gadgets on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been a week now that I have my iPhone. Like oncle Tom would say, it is simply “unnnnnbelievable”. Like mac OS X, everything is really well integrated. You see a phone number on a web page, in your adress book, in an SMS message and you simply click on it to [...]

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Refactor my code

Posted in General on October 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Marc-André Cournoyer had a great idea: allow developpers to exchange on pieces of code, in a friendly matter so that everyone can be proud of their piece of code. The web site is called Refactor My Code. Go have a look. You can share your knowledge of Ruby, PHP, Javascript, Java, C, [...]

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