Things I have learnt in the last week
(or, in some cases, things I already knew but never really cared about)
Microsoft Word's .docx format is officially called the "Office Open XML Format" and has been managed
Rahoul Baruah
Rubyist since 1.8.6.
I like hair, dogs and Kim/Charli/Poppy.
Also CTO at Collabor8Online.
How I accidentally became a data-scientist
Or why Ben Brereton-Diaz changed his name.
I've never really been in to data and statistics. I'm not great at maths and it gets tiring figuring things out from
An exercise in Test Driven Development: Kata No. 9
An exercise in Test Driven Development: Kata No. 9
You Aren't Going to Need it - until you do
Last night, at the North West Ruby Group, we did an exercise
Hiring Developers from Upwork
I was just involved in a discussion on Reddit, where someone was asking for advice about getting hired on Upwork. That prompted another response from someone asking about the best way to hire
Plumbing
My new gem, Plumbing.
- Pipelines (functional-style data transformations)
- Rubber Ducks (type-checking the ruby way)
- Actors (safe concurrency and parallelism)
- Pipes (the observer pattern revisited)
And how to use it for your modular monolith.