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Articles by Joël Quenneville

  1. Flesh Out Your Conference Talk Idea Using a Rubric

    Avoid writers block by using a rubric to flesh out your conference talk idea.

    Joël Quenneville
    July 11, 2024
    • Conferences
  2. 3 Mental Models For Ruby Enumerators

    Get a better understanding of Ruby enumerators by looking at them from 3 different perspectives.

    Joël Quenneville
    June 5, 2024
    • Enumerator
    • Ruby
    • Development
  3. Writing Quality Method Docs

    Things I think about when putting together effective method-level documentation.

    Joël Quenneville
    May 31, 2024
    • Web
    • Development
  4. How to approach a reduce problem

    Code written with reduce can be intimidating. This 2-step approach can help.

    Joël Quenneville
    March 13, 2024
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Functional Programming
  5. A Peek Behind the Curtain of Our New Open Source Page

    How did we build the new Open Source page?

    Joël Quenneville and Neil Carvalho
    September 4, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Open Source
    • Web
  6. Structuring Conditionals in a Wizard

    Branching early helps structure multi-step forms.

    Joël Quenneville
    August 8, 2023
    • Good Code
    • Elm
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  7. Avoid Putting Logic in Map Blocks

    The contents of a map block should probably be an instance method on each item.

    Joël Quenneville
    May 26, 2023
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Domain Modeling
  8. Building Custom RSpec Matchers with Regular Objects

    RSpec custom matchers can be written using plain old objects.

    Joël Quenneville
    February 1, 2023
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Rails
  9. Time Zones and Rocket Ships

    Rocket launches show us that we can know that two future events will be simultaneous, or what the local time will be, but not both.

    Joël Quenneville
    December 6, 2022
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  10. Data Modeling Resources in Elm

    Links to some of the best Elm data modeling resources around the web.

    Joël Quenneville
    November 15, 2022
    • Elm
    • Good Code
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