Software Engineer, Author, Consultant
RubyConf Argentina 2012 was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at a theater in the Paseo La Plaza area. This area is in the center of Buenos Aires near the obelisk landmark. Attendees came from Buenos Aires, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru,...
I had the chance to attend two conferences this Fall in New England.
A Set 1 is a useful collection in Ruby. A Set does not allow duplicates. Converting between a Set and an Array is easy. In the article A Guide to Ruby Collections, II: Hashes, Sets, and Ranges 2 the author...
fugitive.vim The fugitive.vim plugin 1 for Vim has a nice feature to open a file in GitHub. It is even possible to have a range or line highlighted from a visual selection! fugitive.vim plugin ↩
Recently I was asked to do a code review on an entire repository. Normally I review a pull request where I can leave a comment on a specific line.
I started learning tmux and highly recommend the book tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development 1 as a guide. My tmux.conf 2 configuration file is available as well. tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development by Brian P. Hogan The Pragmatic Programmers ↩ tmux.conf configuration file ↩...
This blog is generated from text files that are comprised of a section of YAML code then markdown-formatted text. To convert the text files for use with new blog software I had to edit each filename and put the date...
ImageMagick is an image manipulation library that supports the ability to crop an image programmatically. There is a creative aspect to making a crop from an original image. A photo producer may be unhappy with a crop that was chosen...
MySQL LOAD DATA INFILE can be used to load thousands or millions of records very quickly. Each row in a CSV text file will be created as a record in the database.
Shipped software can provide A/B test results and behavior data, which can help clarify whether a feature is worth enhancing or abandoning. It is important for the team to embrace shipping software (without hurting quality) to keep planning meetings short...