Viewing profile — tcopeland

"What writer? We're talking about a sitcom!" https://youtu.be/EQnaRtNMGMI?t=108

Martin Crevald has a book on the USMC reading list ( https://grc-usmcu.libguides.com/usmc-reading-list/intermedia... ) "The Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq". In…

Another scenario is when an acquisition occurs for the data a company has collected and so the codebases are quietly retired. In that situation there's still some value in paying d…

Maybe Mary Rose Cook live coding a game as a conference presentation: https://vimeo.com/105955605

FWIW "The Box" is on the current CNO reading list: https://www.navy.mil/ah_online/cno-readingprogram/hvo.html

That's the truth. I had a thing come up the other day where a client wasn't including a content type header and thus the body was being interpreted as application/x-www-form-urlenc…

"Nudge" is on the Center for Homeland Defense and Security reading list: https://www.chds.us/c/hsbooks

> I'd definitely include "Kill your dependencies" as a bullet point Or at least your monkeypatches!

I was always disappointed by rails:update - look at all these crazy changes, I can't do all this stuff! - until I figured out I was using it the wrong way. A good way to use it is …

That looks great, and my local library has a copy, thanks for the pointer!

Here's a direct link to the PDF: http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/316thCav/ASA/content/pdf/A...

Interesting, that's on the Army Advanced Situational Awareness reading list ( http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/316thCav/ASA/ReadingList.h... ).

In the "things learned from Ruby" section: Focus on strong object oriented programming What I've learned from Ruby is to favor functional programming concepts - minimize side effec…

Yes, although many changes are performance optimizations and other under-the-covers sorts of things. Here are the changes for 2.5 which if tradition holds will be out on Christmas:…

> I'm planning a full rewrite of the interpreter for Ruby 2.0 [...] It will use a bytecode engine. And so it did! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARV

In the morning, usually setting things up for whatever operations are scheduled for the 0800-1200. In the evening, squaring things away from whatever we did that day and maybe prep…