June 2012 Archives
Where's Your Business Logic?
Can you point to a single place in your application and say “here is where we implement our business rules and use cases”, or are your use cases spread out across controllers, models, libs and elsewhere? Do you have fat models, fat controllers, and/or a massive lib directory? Is adding new features quick and easy or painful and time consuming? I have a solution to your pain.
Benchmarking Rails on the Retina MacBook Pro
How much of a speed boost is the new Retina MacBook Pro’s Ivy Bridge i7? A lot—if you’re coming from a Core 2 Duo!
The Password Rant
LinkedIn screwed up, but you can be smarter. When you store a password, you’re holding a key to untold secrets. The goal is to keep that key safe from everyone, even you.
Getting Artistic w/ RubyMotion
Sure, making apps that communicate with a server somewhere is interesting, but what about your creative side?
Delete Your Email Rules
Today I removed all of my rules in Mail.app. It is easier than you think, you just have to get less email.
The Shape of Complexity
When working alone and tasked to solve a problem or implement a feature, I seem to follow a similar pattern of clarity, leading to confusion and frustration, and back to clarity.