Piotr Murach articles - 13 total
My 2021 Annual Review: Seeking Serenity
By slowing down and making more room for reflection, I discovered a little bit more about myself and what works for me and what needs pruning.
My 2020 Annual Review: Strange Ride
We're going to look through some of my personal highlights and disappointments. We will finish by trying to tease out some lessons and talk about my aspirations for the future.
Looking Inside a Ruby Gem
Have you ever wondered what a gem is? What's inside a Ruby gem? Having written our gemspec, it's only natural to use it to learn how a Ruby package is built.
Writing a Ruby Gem Specification
Create a Ruby gemspec file from scratch and learn best practices.
My 2019 Annual Review: Not too shabby
My summary of 2019 in which I created a lot of open-source software, wrote many blog articles, spoke at international conferences and travelled to new countries.
Working with Capistrano: Environment Variables and Remote Commands
This time around, we're going to write a more involved script composed of many tasks. By themselves, these tasks won't accomplish too much. But the sum of them all will help us automate the installation and upgrading of Ruby throughout the lifetime of our application.
Streaming Large ZIP Files in Rails
Recently, I needed to add a "Download all" button in a Rails application for managing meeting assets. Specifically, this magic button would allow attendees to download all the meeting documents in a single zip file.
Software Product - Fake It Until You Make It?
Is it okay for businesses to sell software that doesn't exist? It seems like an easy option to promote an imaginary product. After all, you can say anything you want.
Nobody Cares About Your Software
Hate to break it to you but the chances are that nobody cares about your software.
Bad Blood - a Tale of a Modern Vampire
“Bad Blood” - a Tale of a Modern Vampire
The Path to Learning a Programming Language
"I've learnt Ruby in a weekend/ It's a simple language" boasted one developer who had had no prior experience of the Ruby programming language.
My 2018 Annual Review
New Year is a good time to reflect on the ups and downs of my previous year. I've never done any official review, so this year, I decided to replace my vague ruminations about the past year and instead turn them into more concrete plans and ideas.