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The ForkBomb Tattoo

By Chris | Published: May 23, 2010
This doesn't count for much, but I think this is one of the cleverest, geekiest, most elegant tattoos I've ever seen. Carving an Apple, Cisco or Nike Logo onto your body? That's really quite sad. But this is something different: Why do I like it? I think it's about as attractive as a code type [...]
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Frustrating and Cryptic Ruby Idioms (#1 of a series)

By Chris | Published: May 3, 2009
I keep coming across these FACRI's (Frustrating and Cryptic Ruby Idioms) in my work, so I'm jotting them here in the hope that I'll remember them better in future. Ruby idioms Ruby is a wonderful, if somewhat slow and memory hungry language, with an incredibly flexible and expressive syntax. However this flexibility leads to the [...]
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Tea, Arduino and Dynamic Demand

By Chris | Published: April 24, 2009
It’s the next HomeCamp tomorrow. And in a spectacular feat of bad calendaring, I’ve managed to organise the Letter Lounge to take place on the day I’ve been looking forward to for the last few months are coming away from the initial HomeCamp, utterly inspired by what I saw there. So to make up for [...]
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Renaming stuff with Ruby

By Chris | Published: January 4, 2009
I've been mucking around on the command line with Ruby again of late, and one thing that tripped me up initially, but is now firmly on my list of things I Like About Programming is how Ruby handles loops. With javascript, actionscript, php, it's pretty common to iterate through an array with a for loop [...]
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