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Re: Introduction to Pattern Matching in Ruby | Toptal

Julien Desrosiers — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:30:28 -0000

The simple fact that you went through the article is a proof that you're not an idiot. You would have given up much earlier.

Maybe it's just that this article targets readers with a better ability for abstraction and more openness to new things?

Honestly, if you know a bit of ruby, you should be able to read some Elixir syntax fairly easily. Regarding the japanese characters, it makes some sense given that the ruby language was invented by a japanese dude. I don't know japanese, but it's a cute tribute to that. And you're right, it could have been any other string of characters. :)

Having seen how pattern matching is being used in languages such as OCaml (similar to F#), I find it pretty interesting to know about that new feature. So I hope that this article won't stop you from using that in the future. :)

Re: Windows 10 Windows Button Not Working [Solved]

Julien Desrosiers — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:49:59 -0000

That window-key lock was driving me crazy. Thanks a lot!

Re: Why Bugs Ruin Everything

Julien Desrosiers — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:59:04 -0000

I think this post has inspired those lucidchart youtube ads: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: TensorFlow + Keras on AWS

Julien Desrosiers — Sat, 27 May 2017 00:00:43 -0000

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Very appreciated.

Re: God Punishes For Today for Blatant Homophobia with Poor Album Sales

Julien Desrosiers — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:49:22 -0000

More often than not, christians do more harm than good when preaching against sin than simply loving others. We should always tell the truth in a loving way. We're all sinners, christians included (and myself at the top of that list). If you sinned against one commandment, it's the same as if you violated all the law (James 2:10).

So as a christian, I sincerely apologize for all the homophobic stuff christians preach. Homosexuality is a sin, yes. But pointing fingers at people is never leading anyone into repentance. It just breeds hatred and a reason to keep sinning, because christians don't represent the grace of Christ. Only the law, which themselves they cannot accomplish (which is the reason they needed Christ in the first place).

-- A christian who's ashamed of other christians

Re: Widespread WordPress Plugins and Themes Security Vulnerability

Julien Desrosiers — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:22:55 -0000

I don't know for these particular plugins, but there is no tool that covers every security vulnerability out there.

Re: A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember

Julien Desrosiers — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:12:42 -0000

Wow, I didn't know about CanJS, but from what you're saying it looks pretty attractive to me. I'm going to check it out!

Re: Visualizing Your Z-Index Stacks with jQuery

Julien Desrosiers — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:40:23 -0000

You just saved me a couple of hours... Thanks!

Re: The accidental template language

Julien Desrosiers — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:42:36 -0000

Very cool templating/tcl tricks. Thanks for posting this!

Re: PHP: the quiet powerhouse

Julien Desrosiers — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:06:20 -0000

For sure! I found your post on http://coder.io/tag/php , which i'm always reading.

Re: PHP: the quiet powerhouse

Julien Desrosiers — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:00:53 -0000

I completely agree with you.
Simplicity is great. Even if it means that less experienced programmers can make bad things with it. Some really good code is being done with PHP these days.

Re: Designing & Building a WordPress Theme: My Step by Step Process

Julien Desrosiers — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:47:44 -0000

Thanks for sharing your workflow.
I sure will use some of these tips for my own themes.

Re: Who Goes There? Understanding Permissions in UNIX

Julien Desrosiers — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:04:11 -0000

This article clarified a few useful things for me.

Thanks.

Re: http://www.mattsears.com/articles/2011/11/27/ruby-blocks-as-dynamic-callbacks

Julien Desrosiers — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:53:57 -0000

This technique is really cool. Thank you.

Re: My Reasons for Leaving .NET

Julien Desrosiers — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:31:10 -0000

I did the same kind of post a few years ago but instead of .net, i was leaving PHP.
My reason for writing such a post was to make it clear on my website that i was no longer a PHP dev. I wanted people to see me as a Ruby dev instead. I realized that to get Ruby job opportunities, it was more worthwhile to make Ruby dev friends (on twitter and/or in person) rather than stating that i'm not doing any PHP work anymore.

I still get many PHP opportunity, but i just ignore or refuse them.
I still do some personal projects in PHP, but just for things that are really better suited for PHP.
And Yes, there are cases where a tool is better than another, no matter what you already know. For example, you _could_ create a CMS in Node.js, or a realtime app in PHP. It doesn't mean that it makes sense for these tasks.

So, really a great post that i can relate to.

A Ruby and JavaScript developer.

Re: f.lux: software to make your life better

Julien Desrosiers — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:00:01 -0000

This is awesome. Many many thanks.

Re: Take on Vim with Janus

Julien Desrosiers — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:33:25 -0000

Me too! I tried Vim at least 2 times before completely switching to Vim because of Janus.
Now i don't use Janus anymore but my own Vim setup with some configurations that i took from Janus.
Also Pathogen really helps for managing vim plugins! Check that out: https://github.com/tpope/vi...

Re: Why I've built an alternative to Github

Julien Desrosiers — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:13:47 -0000

+1 for repositoryhosting. I used them before setuping my own git hosting (with gitosis) on my VPS.

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

Julien Desrosiers — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:12:50 -0000

I've read the french version ("Le Millionnaire"). Didn't know about the audiobook. But it's an easy read, really great novel.

How to Get Rich is now on my Wish List, thanks!

Re: Working for Me: First Month Report - Marc-André Cournoyer's blog

Julien Desrosiers — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:42:36 -0000

I've also read Rich Dad Poor Dad and loved it.
If you like this kind of book, i recommend you to also read "The Instant Millionnaire", by Marc Fisher: http://www.amazon.com/Insta... . (There is also a french version called "le millionnaire" since Marc Fisher is Québécois)
Great story, very inspiring. These kinds of books really help you build the mindset to achieve financial independence.

Kudos for your achievements toward this worthy goal :)

Re: http://adammcnamara.com/post/3411206053

Julien Desrosiers — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:12:49 -0000

Just found your blog. Amazing story & lesson.

Re: How to be THE LUCKIEST GUY ON THE PLANET in 4 Easy Steps

Julien Desrosiers — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:38:09 -0000

Forgiving.
The mental exercice you mentioned about forgiving is something that actually helps a lot.
Do it for every wrong things people did to you and i can guarantee that your life will be at least a bit better.

Re: Tanner Burson : Multiple Sinatra .90 applications in one process

Julien Desrosiers — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:37:03 -0000

Thank you so much for this! I was wondering if it was possible to host a rack app alongside other apps. And map seems to be the response to my question.

Re: Guides Blog Tutorial - Padrino Ruby Web Framework

Julien Desrosiers — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:19:50 -0000

I also had this other error about Padrino not finding the "application.builder" layout for the rss/atom feeds:
"No such file or directory - /[...]/test_blog/app/views/layouts/application.builder"

I had to add this instead of the simple "render 'posts/index'" in the app/controllers/posts.rb controller:

if [:rss, :atom].include? content_type
render 'posts/index', :layout=>false
else
render 'posts/index'
end

Hope it helps someone!

BTW, Thanks for Padrino, i love it!

Re: Guides Blog Tutorial - Padrino Ruby Web Framework

Julien Desrosiers — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:25:55 -0000

After generating the admin with "padrino g admin" i had this error when doing the "padrino rake ar:create":
"Could not find gem 'bcrypt-ruby (>= 0, runtime)' in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile. (Bundler::GemNotFound)"
(Gist of the whole output: https://gist.github.com/835295 )

Doing a "bundle install" fixed this.

(I'm on ruby-1.8.7-p299 with rvm.)