OH “Even though my brain is definitely single-core, I somehow end up with deadlocks…”
How many languages do you speak?
“How many languages do you speak?” — Owen Lars
“I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication.” — Protocol Droid
Was Rails 3 one of them?
It sure seems like you have to be C-3PO to make it as a dev:
html now html 5, css and now css 3,
ruby - modules, mixins, and metaprogramming
rails - rails routing, rails responders, validations, migrations, built-in helpers
tdd/bdd (whatever you call it this week) - test unit, shoulda, cucumber, rspec,
yaml, xml, csv (doubtful that csv actually counts against us tho),
erb, haml
database - does sql/mysql cut it? nope. now you need to know couchdb, mongodb, redis, friendly, riak, and someflavordb,
mashups/apis - aws, ec2, ebs, s3 (sheesh Amazon), and whatever api so-and-so came up with that you want to eat, SOAP, REST
javascript and jquery and gotta know all the plugin options too,
and then there is the command line:
rails <command> (formerly script/<command> <option>), gem <command> <option>, cap <in your ass>, rake <or sake>, thor <Wotan love 'im>,version control - svn, now git,
"dare i mention our great friend and sometimes nemesis, extemporaneously?"[/(re)[a-z]*.*(g).*(ex)/i];[$1, $2, $3] * ''and I haven’t even mentioned essential unix commands -
grep, scp, ssh (are you private or pubic?), top, less, tail, head -
for the hardcore fans: sed and awk,
and we also have our text editor “language” which is really just a human-muscle-memory set -
textmate, vim, emacs, xcode, gedit, joe (yes I said joe).
how many skillsets do we really have?
how many do we need?
doesn’t anyone else think this is insanity?
ipad.
Great case for using .tap to clean up and organize code.
Example
<div class="active_messages">
<% @active_messages.each do |message| %>
<h1><%= message.title %></h1>
<div class="latest_comment">
<% message.comments.last.tap do |comment| %>
<div class="avatar">
<%= avatar_for(comment.creator) %>
</div>
Latest comment <%= time_ago_in_words(comment.created_at) %> ago by <%= comment.creator.full_name %>
<% end %>
</div>
<% end %>
</div>
Winding down with a tin domestic.
laying some #awesome down today