Ruby disappointment

I have been trying to port some work I've done in Java to Ruby, to see how it looks and how much code it would take. But in the way I found out that Ruby might not be the best option for this kind of situations.

Let me explain it, this is my pseudo code:



As you can see, the OrderSet has a collection of Order classes, but classes!! Not instances, because in the real application I will have hundred of Orders and I don't want to instantiate a new object for each one of them.

So to keep the memory load very low I handle classes, in that way I can control them, instantiate them and destroy them as much as I want.

Now, I tried to write it in Ruby, but I found out that there's no easy way to add metadata at a class level!!
The closest approach to it that I could find is instance-oriented. I would need a new instance of every Order to make it work....sad.

• Annotations simulation in Ruby

Scrum basics

A short presentation I gave about Scrum, I've taken a lot of material from Jurgen Appelo's presentation.

Just for the joy of writting it down

I must admit that I'm being sleeping for a while, in my personal life, in my career and left behind the goals that inspired me just a year ago.

But some things changed during the last two months, I started doing things that changed my life. Small things that I thought were lame and not worth doing, here is a list of them:

• I got high rates on my masters degree when I started losing interest on it.
• Improved my jogging-resistance to 40 minutes just by practicing 3 times a week.
• Solved very difficult (difficult for me) software-related problems at work, things that I never imagined that I could do.
• Recover my reading-habit.
• Found the way to drink enough not to get a killing-hangover, and also started enjoying these gathering events more and more.
• Improved my personal relationships at all levels :-D

And many other things that are just too lame to list...seriously. But after all I'm just doing what I used to do back in 2009, somehow I got lost in the way without even noticing it. I got too much comfortable with my situation, I couldn't think on getting my life to that frenetic pace again.

But I was wrong, that frenetic pace kept me awake and living, I think now I recovered that energy that I always had.

I will try to do the best I can with my life, I will make mistakes and be a total fool sometimes, but I'll learn from it. Because that's the only thing I'm sure I'm capable of...learning.

I still have tons of things to do, to improve, to correct. So much things that I just started wrapping my mind around them, so expect more activity from now on.