Pre Summer Dev Newsletter (2 weeks to go)

Are coders worth it?

An interesting article which questions the value of the work we do.

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/james-somers-web-developer-money/

Wrapping up a C Library for Ruby. It's actually pretty easy!

Another blog post about writing a ruby wrapper for a c library.

http://blog.firmhouse.com/wrapping-up-a-c-library-for-ruby-it-s-actually-pretty-easy

The Race For Speed Part 1

The first in a series of articles about the history of javascript engines and how javascript compilers work.

http://creativejs.com/2013/06/the-race-for-speed-part-1-the-javascript-engine-family-tree/

Rails Girls London (21-22 June 2013)

Rails Girls is returning to London, they're still looking for participants and volunteers.

http://railsgirls.com/london

Method from the future! (Hash#transform_keys)

In rails 4 the transform_keys method will be at your disposal. It works in the same way as stringify_keys or symbolize_keys, but takes a block as an argument. It allows you to specify how you would like to format your keys.

hash = {foo: 'one', bar: 'two', baz: 'three'}
hash.transform_keys do |key|
    key.to_s.capitalize
end
 => {"Foo"=>"one", "Bar"=>"two", "Baz"=>"three"}