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You'll find my course content and collaborative discussion about technology.

I teach as an adjunct faculty in the Computer Information Systems department at Spokane Community College

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kblake DOT scc AT gmail DOT com

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RubyLearning.com interview
Course Technology - Ruby on Rails Presentation


Out today

December 3rd, 2007 |

Sorry I will not be at school today. I’ll see you Tuesday.

CIS 206: Assignment due tomorrow and I’ll be giving the Final test review.

Absent: Tuesday, November 27th

November 26th, 2007 |

I will not be at school Tuesday, November 27th. Assignments, lecture material, etc. will be discussed in class today.

CIS 282 - Get Help Day

November 18th, 2007 |

CIS 282 - Regular Expressions

October 29th, 2007 |

http://rubyurl.com/YGl or http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhknw46_56cxtjx5

What's a for loop?

October 19th, 2007 |

Now that I’ve been programming Ruby for a couple of years now I don’t write for loops anymore. I just read an interesting article making the same observation. http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/10/writing_your_last_forloop.php

Comment driven development

October 17th, 2007 |

I work with Jim and we were joking around about some overcommenting that some developers do. Not that comments are bad but code should be as self documenting as possible. If you have to comment your code then you should look into refactoring it so that it is more readable. Any hoo take a read at Jim’s blog about ‘Comment Driven Development’, http://devillecompanies.org/2007/07/20/comment-driven-development/

While you are at it take a look at other “XYZ Driven Development”s: http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/asshole-driven-development

The future of software development

October 17th, 2007 |

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_software_development.php

Great article exposing the “Waterfall” method for what it is and highlighting the benefits of agile development. I liked this, quoting the article, “Equipped with a modern programming language, great libraries, and agile methods, a couple of smart guys in the garage can get things done much better and faster than an army of mediocre developers.”

E-commerce workshop and Extra Credit

October 16th, 2007 |

Please attend the E-commerce workshop this evening at 5:30 in Room 1120. It will be very informative! If you are in my CIS 282 class then I’ll give you 10 points extra credit.

NO CLASS - Friday Oct. 5th

October 4th, 2007 |

I will not be here. See you Monday. We'll keep lecturing on Hashes.

CIS 282 - Beginning Java

October 1st, 2007 |

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