Effectif Development

I've just arrived home from MicroConf Europe, which was the best conference I've ever been to.
The things I learned and ideas I had will definitely have an impact on my working life, as will the new relationships forged with the people I met.
At the start of the start of the first day Rob Walling challenged us all to come up with 3 takeaways that would have an impact our businesses....

When developing for the web, I like to make sure that the software I'm using in development is a close match for the code that I'm running on my live servers.
My preferred approach is to develop my code in a virtual machine containing the same operating system and software as my production server environment, but sometimes we don't have much control over the code we run on the server. This is often the case...

Shortly before Apple announced the first iPad the rumour mill was hard at work; we all knew it was coming. I was sat in the pub with my Dad and his friend, who asked me what I thought – would it be a success? To me, there was no doubt it would be a winner...

In version 1.9 Ruby introduced new syntax for hash literals whose keys are symbols. Hashes use the "hash rocket" operator to separate the key and the value:
In Ruby 1.9 that syntax is still valid, but when the key is a symbol we can also write it like this:...