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Realtime, rich client applications are extremely popular. This is reflected in a new generation of frameworks like node.js and ... Software is always a mess. You can't avoid this mess, and if hubris goads you into attempting to achieve perfection, you'll just ... Have you ever thought about how much of software engineering involves explaining things? We stick comments in our program to ... Most developers know enough about refactoring to write code that's pretty good. They create short methods, and classes with one ... by Brian Marrick When smoothing wood with a hand plane, you should always work with the grain rather than against the grain. At Gusto, we run over 100 million Sidekiq jobs a day across a complex Rails ecosystem and every time I explain how it works, ...

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Derrick Ko's Ignite presentation, "Keeping It Simple", at the 2012 Fluent Conference.
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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Keeping it Simple by Derrick Ko

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Keeping it Simple by Derrick Ko

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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Building in Rails, Backbone, and CoffeeScript by Derrick Ko

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Building in Rails, Backbone, and CoffeeScript by Derrick Ko

Realtime, rich client applications are extremely popular. This is reflected in a new generation of frameworks like node.js and ...

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Go Ahead, Make a Mess by Sandi Metz

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Go Ahead, Make a Mess by Sandi Metz

Software is always a mess. You can't avoid this mess, and if hubris goads you into attempting to achieve perfection, you'll just ...

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Ruby on the Command Line by Simon Chiang

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Ruby on the Command Line by Simon Chiang

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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Ruby on Android by Nick Howard

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Ruby on Android by Nick Howard

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Derrick Ko's Ignite presentation, "Keeping It Simple", at the 2012 Fluent Conference.

Derrick Ko's Ignite presentation, "Keeping It Simple", at the 2012 Fluent Conference.

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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - This is the problem by Drew Neil

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - This is the problem by Drew Neil

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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - A model walks into a JavaScript framework by Tony Navarre

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - A model walks into a JavaScript framework by Tony Navarre

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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Eloquent Explanations by Russ Olsen

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Eloquent Explanations by Russ Olsen

Have you ever thought about how much of software engineering involves explaining things? We stick comments in our program to ...

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Refactoring from Good to Great by Ben Orenstein

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 - Refactoring from Good to Great by Ben Orenstein

Most developers know enough about refactoring to write code that's pretty good. They create short methods, and classes with one ...

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013 Building Colorado Developers by Jeff Casimir

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013 Building Colorado Developers by Jeff Casimir

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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013 Programming with that Disreputable Part of your Brain

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013 Programming with that Disreputable Part of your Brain

by Brian Marrick When smoothing wood with a hand plane, you should always work with the grain rather than against the grain.

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Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 - Sidekiq at Gusto: The Parts Where People’s Jaw Drops by Phillip Campbell

At Gusto, we run over 100 million Sidekiq jobs a day across a complex Rails ecosystem and every time I explain how it works, ...