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Practical example of need for prototypal inheritance

Alex Sexton wrote a wonderful article about how to use inheritance pattern to manage large piece of code. His code also has a pratical need for prototypal inheritance for writing modular code.
creating standard jQuery plugin
Given below is code that does exactly what Alex’s code does.

MWRC 2010 - Day 1 Live Video

Checking Shoes Samples: expert-irb.rb

360Flex last day.

What a conference! The talks where really awesome so far. Not exactly sure what I will attend today. I might attend “Optimize it! ActionScript Tips for iPhone Games” followed by “Adobe is from Mars, Microsoft is from Uranus: A View from the Client”. Then I will have to split early to catch a flight to Salt Lake City for the MountainWest RubyConf 2010.

prototypal inheritance in JavaScript

One of the key features of JavaScript language is its support for prototype method. This feature could be used bring inheritance in JavaScript.

Pro Git Bloggin'

Our very own international man of mystery Scott Chacon has been blogging some great blogs over at the Pro Git site recently:

See You At The Hackfest!

A quick reminder to those of you attending MountainWest RubyConf this weekend: Engine Yard will be hosting it’s third annual MountainWest RubyConf Hackfest this Thursday night!

Rails Reminder: DATE_FORMATS

A friend of mine recently asked me about adding time formats to Rails apps. It’s not completely intuitive on how to add new "default" symbols for date and time formats or to get a list of the built in ones. The API has the built-in lists of constants under DATE_FORMATS but it’s a bit difficult to read on that page.

Michael Fogus talks to RubyLearning’s Clojure Course Participants

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Michael Fogus talks to the Clojure 101 course participants on Clojure.

Use the Cucumber

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your application.

In this hour and ten minute screencast, you’ll learn the basics of Cucumber. You’ll learn the syntax, organization, and philosophy of writing Features, Scenarios, and Steps. You’ll build an application and learn where unit tests are a better fit.