Sometimes logging costs us in app performance even when it is suppressed. Today, we learn how to avoid these slowdowns.
Month: September 2015

Episode #344: Nil Conversions
Today's dish is a quick tip about getting rid of nil values.

Episode #343: Crystal
Today we meet a young programming language which looks suspiciously similar to Ruby.

Episode #342: Example Data
What do you for options that have no sensible defaults? In this episode, we'll discuss one possibility.

Episode #341: Hammers And Diapers
Today, a story about how a baby helped me avoid unnecessary code.

Episode #340: Controlling Log Level
Today we learn a dead-simple way to make logging levels configurable at runtime.

Episode #339: Logger
Today: A short introduction to the essential feature's of Ruby's standard Logger library.

Episode #338: Error Value
Picking up where we left off in #337, today we look at how to add extra information to an error flag value, in a backwards-compatible way.