Maintainable Code
Let’s face it, we all know that when we sit down and start coding anything, the requirements are going to change and once we have released the code into the wild our clients are going to want updates....
View ArticleControlling your dependencies
I’m going to talk about Dependency Injection, and I’ll be using Ruby for most of the examples. First though, we’ll cover what a dependency is. Dependencies take many forms. You’re dependent on your car...
View ArticleUsing tests to help you create your code
This post is going to look at the concept of using test driven development to drive out the code for a project. The idea of TDD has been around for quite some time now, but it seems to be gathering...
View ArticleHull Digital Developer Group
For a while now Hull Digital have been talking about the idea of getting together developers in this area to discuss the varying aspects of development. Why do we need such a group? The speed at which...
View ArticleHull Digital Developer Group February Meetup
Following on from the first successful developer meetup that was held in December, we are looking to organise the next meetup for February (no specific date just yet). The format of the next meetup...
View ArticleHull Digital Developer group – The story so far
With the next Hull Digital Developer group meet-up just around the corner, I thought now would be a good time to let everyone know more about the Developer group and what’s happened so far. We decided...
View ArticleThe Lightstream Experience
As many of you who follow me on twitter know I recently was one of the lucky people to get KC Lightstream installed. As you probably also know I’ve always been quite critical of KC and it’s monopoly in...
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