Showing posts with label Ruby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruby. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 November 2017

That array_map quandary implemented in other languages

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G'day: A coupla days ago I bleated about array_map [having] a dumb implementation . I had what I thought was an obvious application fo...
Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Floating point arithmetic with decimals

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G'day: As a human... what is the value of z , after you process this pseudocode with your wetware: x = 17.76 y = 100 z = x * y Hope...
Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Weekend code puzzle: my answer (Ruby version)

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G'day: I'll move on from this topic soon, rest assured. Having come up with a CFML answer for my code puzzle question (" Weeke...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

PHP: include paths are relative to the current working directory

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G'day: This one had me confused for a day or so last week. It seems the relative paths in include / require calls in PHP are relative t...
Sunday, 27 July 2014

7Li7W: Ruby Day 1

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G'day: That's short of "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks", btw: some ppl get arsey when I write about non-CFML stuff on a b...
Tuesday, 25 March 2014

myArray.each()... extending the array whilst iterating..?

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G'day: I dunno what to think about some behaviour I'm seeing when iterating over an array with the .each() method. Consider (but...
Thursday, 26 December 2013

Identifying when a regex pattern matches at position zero in a string

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G'day: Sean asked on Twitter today for input into how to best handle a shortfall in some TestBox functionality. The TestBox Jira ticket...
Saturday, 7 December 2013

CFML weirdness with chr(0)

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G'day: I was trying to help someone on Stack Overflow y/day with their question " How to pad a string with null/zero-bytes in Cold...
Saturday, 28 September 2013

arrayEach() could stand some improvement

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G'day: I'm going to lobby to get Saturday renamed "Sidetrackday". I sat down to write up a bunch of stuff one Ruby, and s...
Monday, 16 September 2013

Ruby: blocks (recap), proc(edures), lambdas and methods

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G'day: This is a continuation of the article I knocked together a week or so ago, last time I did a Ruby course @ CodeSchool . I've...
Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Ruby: third tutorial (part 1 of tbc)

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G'day: I first encountered Code School a few months back when Ray pointed out that they were having a free weekend . Having taken adva...
Friday, 5 July 2013

JSON: just to confirm my expectations aren't off

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G'day: I'm half-way across the Irish Sea at the moment (oh, now that I look out the window, I've actually just making landfall ...
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Ruby: doing a second tutorial @ codeschool.com (cont'ed)

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G'day: You might recall a few weeks back I started doing the Ruby courses at Code School , and I was documenting my findings / experie...
Sunday, 26 May 2013

Ruby: doing a second tutorial @ codeschool.com

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G'day: OK, I'm coffee`d up and am gonna do the next Ruby tutorial. Yesterday I did " Try Ruby ", and now I'm on the ...
Saturday, 25 May 2013

Ruby: stream-of-consciousness

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G'day: OK, so I'm fiddling around with Ruby (as per my previous post), and am typing this article as I explore. Prior to startin...

Ruby via codeschool.com

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G'day: Cheers to Ray Camden for putting me on to this, but Code School are offering free online training all weekend, thanks to some ...