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Point of view on career development 19 Nov 2012 | 06:10 am
Last week I wrote a blog post that turned out to be my most popular blog post of the year with 40,000 unique visitors mainly due to the article being featured on the front page of Hacker News for almo...
Rethinking web API design 14 Jun 2012 | 01:47 am
I wrote an article talking about the need to rethink the way we approach web service/API design, you can read it there.
MacRuby on iOS – RubyMotion review 5 May 2012 | 03:17 am
Yesterday, RubyMotion was released and let’s be honest, it is one the best alternatives to Objective-C out there (if not the best). RubyMotion is a commercial, proprietary fork of MacRuby that target...
Introduction to mruby 27 Apr 2012 | 10:07 pm
A couple days ago, I wrote an introduction article to help developers getting started with mruby (aka mrb). Besides explaining the difference between mrb and the other implementations, the article sh...
new Ruby: mruby and mobiruby Ruby for iOS/Android 23 Apr 2012 | 09:13 pm
A few days ago, I wrote an article covering Ruby creator Matz’ new Ruby implementation: mruby and its first related project: MobiRuby which aims to let Ruby developers write iOS and Android applicatio...
Building and implementing a Single Sign-On solution 5 Apr 2012 | 03:29 am
Most modern web applications start as a monolithic code base and, as complexity increases, the once small app gets split apart into many “modules”. In other cases, engineers opt for a SOA design appro...
Learning from Rails’ failures 1 Mar 2012 | 05:48 am
Ruby on Rails undisputedly changed the way web frameworks are designed. Rails became a reference when it comes to leveraging conventions, easy baked in feature set and a rich ecosystem. However, I thi...
Quick dive into Ruby ORM object initialization 24 Feb 2012 | 07:46 am
Yesterday I did some quick digging into how ORM objects are initialized and the performance cost associated to that. In other words, I wanted to see what’s going on when you initialize an ActiveRecord...
Books to read in 2012 – recommended to me by Twitter 31 Dec 2011 | 01:28 pm
Today, I asked on Twitter what non-technical books I should read in 2012. I was nicely surprised to see so many of my followers send recommendations. Here is a list of 25 books that like-minded peopl...
Developing a Curriculum 22 Dec 2011 | 04:57 am
Recently I asked a friend of mine to give me pointers on how to develop a curriculum (he used to teach an education PHD program), after discussing his response on Twitter, people asked me to put it so...
