August 2009
5 posts
Two spaces or one after a period?
I’m curious. I’ve been typing two spaces after a period since I learned to touch type in Middle School. It’s so automatic that I don’t even realize that I’m doing it. Is it still correct?
NPR.org : Free For All? Profits Can Be Elusive... →
Awesome! We’re on the radio!
daryn:
TeachStreet is going to be mentioned on NPR’s Morning Edition tomorrow morning!
It’s exciting whenever we get exposed to a new audience, especially outside the tech blogosphere, but this is a whole new awesome: N-P-R!
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On Procs and Rubies
Recently, I’ve been playing around with Shoes. I ran into an interesting bug (or side affect?) in Ruby 1.8.
Here’s the first code sample, create a Proc for each item in an array, then calling it.
procs = []
[1, 2, 3].each { | x | procs << Proc.new { puts x } }
procs.each { | p | p.call }
# prints 1, 2, 3
Here’s the same code, but adding a local variable of x before...