Virtuous Code

A guest from Larry Marburger about HTTP Digest Authentication, and why it’s not a viable candidate for authenticating modern RESTful APIs. Continue reading →

I didn’t say mean things about Heather Arthur’s code. But I could have. I didn’t see the tweets about her “replace” project that started things off. But I do share the opinion of a number of my colleagues that using … Continue reading →

A bunch of people have asked about my screencasting process for RubyTapas. My process is a work in progress that I frequently iterate on, so this is really just a snapshot of my process as of January 2013. I don’t … Continue reading →

Almost five years ago I released my first Rubygem, NullDB. It was based on ideas from a couple of other libraries, namely ARBS and UnitRecord. In the README I said: It differs from them in a couple of ways: It … Continue reading →

This post started out as the second half of an article on prototype-based OO design for Gregory Brown’s Practicing Ruby. For an introduction to the prototyped view of the object world, and to follow along on an adventure in making … Continue reading →

This week’s freebie episode is a brief exploration of what exactly happens when we define a class in Ruby.

Today’s Monday freebie takes a look at two different methods for redirecting standard out and standard error – one simple and quick, one more comprehensive.