Season of Ruby – Iteration 1 Restrospective

Same 3 questions that I laid out in the last retrospective post. What Went Well Broke through the “no code” barrier - I was learning a lot with with the Ruby Koans, but they also gave a false sense of knowledge.  Doing the String Calculator Kata got me writing my own code, posting it to github, and [...]

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Season of Ruby – The String Calculator Kata and GitHub

Last iteration I realized that I needed to start writing some code, so the big story for this iteration was to do Roy Osherove’s String Calculator Kata and also to push the code up to github. Mission accomplished! But unlike ‘W’ standing on the aircraft carrier, I know there is a lot more work to [...]

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Season of Ruby – Iteration Zero Retrospective

Keeping in the Agile spirit, I did a retrospective for Iteration Zero of my Season of Ruby.  When I conduct a retrospective I cover 3 areas: What did we do well What can we improve on What are we going to focus on in the next iteration to improve the process or the product I am a [...]

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Season of Ruby – Learning the Syntax

The Season of Ruby continues… I am staying with the Ruby Koans for now, I really enjoy the layout as I learn the basics of the language and it’s syntax.  To this point I have covered asserts, the notion of nil (it really is an object), objects, arrays, hashes, strings, symbols, and my favorite…regular expressions. [...]

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So Begins The Season of Ruby

I wasn’t sure if from my last post, this would be a year of Ruby, a lifetime of Ruby, or 20 minutes of Ruby, so let’s start with the notion of a season of Ruby. Lao Tzu said “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”.  So as much as I would [...]

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