Comments for Anna Lear

Comment on SCNA 2011 Part 3: Gary Bernhardt, “Expansion and Contraction” by jason lewis (@canweriotnow)

jason lewis (@canweriotnow) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:10:01 +0000

Great post… I think the path we’re seeing with Rails 3.1 and beyond does indicate a bit of a contraction step… the Ruby community definitely embraces Perl’s TMTOWTDI philosophy, but I think there is a desire for at least more guidance when it comes to standards and “best practices.” We’re seeing things like Devise, OmniAuth, and CanCan become ersatz defaults when it comes to authentication and authorization, for instance. The nice thing about the “gemplosion” with Rails is that libraries become subject to natural selection rather than selection by fiat. The most popular libs generate the most discussion and communisty-generated documentation/support, and the less popular ones eventually whither and die.

I also think you’re spot on pointing out FP and outside-in TDD (which is really behavior-driven development) as the Next Big Things. And I think the Rails community is already on that badwagon; there’s a lot of discussion of applying functional styles in Ruby (which is not that hard to do, given its Lisp heritage), as well as use of BDD tools like Cucumber.

Comment on Why Excel thinks your CSV is a SYLK by Anna Lear

Anna Lear — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:01:10 +0000

You’re welcome. Glad I could help!

Comment on Why Excel thinks your CSV is a SYLK by Doug Carr

Doug Carr — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:32:24 +0000

That is just crazy. Thanks again Microsoft for thinking that your software is smarter than it really is.

I just ran into this issue and your tip solved the issue right away.

I thank you so very much for posting this.

Doug

Comment on Achievement Unlocked: Stack Overflow Moderator by Daniel Alvarado

Daniel Alvarado — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:28:18 +0000

You have done an impressive work on Programmers, that’s why I gave you my first option vote on SO; congratulations to you and to me (all my three candidates were elected) jeje.

Comment on Achievement Unlocked: Stack Overflow Moderator by Kugathasan Abimaran

Kugathasan Abimaran — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:04:12 +0000

Congrats!

Comment on Achievement Unlocked: Stack Overflow Moderator by http://www.founderthoughts.com

http://www.founderthoughts.com — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:44:43 +0000

I voted for you, obviously

Comment on Achievement Unlocked: Stack Overflow Moderator by Merlyn Morgan-Graham

Merlyn Morgan-Graham — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:36:05 +0000

Grats!

I voted for you, so good to see one of my candidates won

I don’t know much about programmers.SE, and for a while considered it a place to pitch over the wall. Then I saw a mod mention the problem that sometimes any-old-crap gets dumped over, just to be closed after it was moved.

It sounded to me like a good idea to have a shared moderator between the two sites. Hopefully you can set example and possibly work out ways to improve any balance issues between them.

Comment on On to RallyON! by Pierre Mengal

Pierre Mengal — Thu, 05 May 2011 07:00:25 +0000

That’s great! I’m sure this will be an amazing experience.

Comment on Why Excel thinks your CSV is a SYLK by WarrenP

WarrenP — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:19:15 +0000

That’s hilarious. Too bad you can’t just go on the Excel project’s sourceforge page and post a bug.

Warren

Comment on Programmers.SE Moderator by Abimaran Kugathasan

Abimaran Kugathasan — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:57:28 +0000

Congrats!