Posted by Matt on Jan 02, 2010
First off, happy new year to everyone! I’m hoping that 2010 is better than 2009 for everybody.
2009 was a rough year for me personally and professionally. However, it ended on a high note with a new job and new challenges.
In the waining days of 2009, I began my first iPhone application. I’m still very new to Cocoa and Objective-C but I’m enjoying the parts of the language and framework I’ve come across. I’m getting readjusted to the manually memory management. I’ve been spoiled by dynamic languages and automatic garbage collection.
I really want to expand the languages I work with his year. Mind you, I’m definitely staying in the Rails ecosystem, it’s a fantastic framework. However there are some technologies on my radar that I want/will need to work with.
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Posted by Matt on Dec 12, 2009
Short update.
After over two years at Sourcefire, I decided to move on to new adventures. As this year wraps up, I’m sad to leave many colleagues behind but glad to know that I can call many of them my friends.
I began at my new employer Alexander+Tom last week. There I will be growing outside the role of only being a Ruby on Rails developer. I will be taking on new challenges, new platforms, and new programming languages.
Here’s to the future and all of its challenges and rewards. I know that no matter what, I will continue to grow as a developer and a person. Life, like great coding, is always a work in progress.
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Posted by Matt on Nov 13, 2009
On my vacation this week, I had the fortune of talking with some developers about Ruby development. During these conversations, I had the joy of introducing some people to some new Ruby tools for rapid application development and testing.
Before I get into that, I wanted to quickly talk about sharing knowledge. Share whenever possible. It doesn’t matter if its about a programming language, some library, tips, or tricks. The littlest thing can open whole new concepts or generate great ideas.
For today’s blog, I’d like to share some tools and tips I use for Rapid Application Development and Rails Unit Testing.
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Posted by Matt on Oct 08, 2009
I’ve been bulk loading my brain with JQuery recently and loving every minute of that. So much so, I’ve been inspired to put together a few examples to share with people on my team.
So here’s my JQuery AHAH Example.
This example shows off two simple concepts:
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Posted by Matt on Jul 12, 2009
I decided my last layout was too spartan. I figured a splash of color was due so that lead me to this new layout. Navigation is still being worked on. However, I think this is a little easier on the eyes.
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