A blog about refactoring and all things agile by Danijel Arsenovski. Learning a new programming language with Code Koans. For an experienced programmer, learning a new programming language can often be a frustrating experience. Most of tutorials are written with burgeoning programmer in mind while the reference documentation is generally too large to be useful while learning the basics.

Gives you all the realistic, hands-on practice you need to refactor Ruby code quickly and effectively. The book shows you when and how to refactor in both legacy code and during new test-driven development, and walks you through real-world refactoring in detail. Recognize why poor code design occurs. Express each idea once and only once.

Co-founder of Software Craftsmanship New York and Samebug, creator of CodingBoard. RabbitMQ reliability troubles and workarounds. This is a story of how my understanding about messaging with RabbitMQ evolved from ignorant to usable while hitting my head into the walls of the CAP theorem. I hope it will save some time for someone out there. I can lose messages? .

Often, I find myself skipping over typography when writing content in HTML. Here is a quick reference some common typographical characters, and how to express them in both HTML and CSS. Better Color Gradients with HUS. Exploring the Discrete Cosine Transform. Have you ever been curious how delegated events. The magical world of the JavaScript arguments object.