Rob Conery

Minty: Razing the Pyramid of Pain

##So Much Code For Such a Simple Thing… I can barely type that sentence without feeling a twinge of … not-happy. In the last...

Rob Conery
Dec 3, 2013 7 min read

Minty: Sanity Check One

http://mashable.com/2012/07/28/tetris-god-video/ Before We Get Too Far One of the reasons I like spiking things is so I can get a feel for what my...

Rob Conery
Nov 26, 2013 7 min read

Minty: Writing The First Specs

http://threa.deviantart.com/art/marionette-196331073 ##Where To Start? All I have right now is the notion of an Article – a pretty basic idea of a “model”. I...

Rob Conery
Nov 24, 2013 4 min read

Minty: The First Steps

What Are We Doing? I have an idea, now it’s time to flesh it out. In a traditional setting you may have sat with...

Rob Conery
Nov 19, 2013 5 min read

Minty: Defining the Model

What’s a Model? If you’re a Rails fan, a Model is where you drop validations, hooks, and some custom methods. In .NET it might...

Rob Conery
Nov 19, 2013 4 min read

Hello Minty

My Boss Wants Me To Build This Node App… I get quite a few emails like this – all centering on a single question:...

Rob Conery
Nov 18, 2013 5 min read

Tekpub Has Been Acquired

First Things First: You If you’re a Tekpub subscriber don’t worry: you’re still a Tekpub subscriber. AND a Pluralsight Subscriber. Here are the details:...

Rob Conery
Oct 29, 2013 3 min read

Javascript Frameworks Are Amazing and Nobody Is Happy

Because everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy. Like, in my lifetime the changes in the world of programming have been incredible. When...

Rob Conery
Aug 21, 2013 2 min read

Knowing More Programming Languages Will Make You Smarter

image from http://visual.ly/network-graph-programming-languages-influence Words as a Conceptual Map There’s a small bit of setup here – bear with me. I relistened to one of...

Rob Conery
May 12, 2013 3 min read

EmberJS Confuses Me

I Tried Saying something confuses me is no great claim – many things do. It’s entirely likely that I didn’t study Ember long enough,...

Rob Conery
Mar 5, 2013 7 min read

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