I'm Travis, a 10 year veteran software developer with a broad background in web technologies and
software markets. I've been working with Rails as my weapon of choice for the last 3 years, and
more recently, developing applications on the iPhone SDK.
A refactoring habitué and TDD adherent, I've
a special interest in software development as a craft and science.
LATEST PROJECT: Secure Rails Admin Backend With Authlogic and Multiple Sessions
Profound science isn’t merely useful, fundamental, accurate, or informative. Science that isn’t profound is still great and necessary, but profound science is a term I would reserve for science that has a high explanatory power with only a small number of postulates. Forceful examples include, say, Evolution, or Germ Theory. Such theories tend to be [...]
The axe and the knife are considered the most important inventions in human history. What are the software equivalents? With software, there’s a blur between the conceptual (something like Formal Logic) and the actual (an IDE), so it’s harder to answer this question as categorically as I would like without broadening the boundaries to computing [...]