After months of resistance, I decided to join the Ruby on Rails bandwagon and read up on Ruby at a brick and mortar bookstore. I was unable to find Programming Ruby, but I found Agile Web Development with Rails and was able to read Appendix A, which was an introduction to the Ruby programming language. […]
The Website Development Process at pingmag.jp describes an iterative product development life cycle through a presentation that is “fun to look at.” The presentation focuses on the interaction between a web design firm and a client, but the interaction can be generalized to cover all product development efforts. This is a useful resource for introducing […]
Jeff Wuorio’s 4 Ways Businesswomen Can Combat Bias discusses ways to fight detrimental views on female company representatives. Although it may be needed for a small company to fight these preconceptions through deception as Gini Dietrich of Arment Dietrich does, making a fictitious male entity the leader of a company that is headed by a […]
A blog entry adds more insight to Jeremy Wright’s Web 2.0 Companies Need to Scale. As an IT administrator, I worry about the availability of Internet applications that run on the servers that I maintain. Perfection is something that I strive for personally, and I continually think about robust methods that will bring the availability […]
While thinking about a programming language deficiency, I rediscovered polymorphism. Overloading a function allows a function call to behave differently when passed variables of different type. I was trying to devise a method of simulating function overloading, because PHP does not support it. I considered implementing a function with an if-else statement ladder that tests […]