All episodes published in 2015
Category: Season 4
Episode #345: Optional Logging
Sometimes logging costs us in app performance even when it is suppressed. Today, we learn how to avoid these slowdowns.
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.
Episode #337: Benign Value
Unhandled exceptions got you down? In today's episode we'll look at some alternatives for when things go wrong.