You know, I really like videogames. I also really like structured data about stuff. e.g. IMDB or TheMovieDB. When it comes to data for videogames the best place for structured data is hidden in the editorial content of Giantbomb. They also offer a great API that gives access for this data. Sadly the ruby-support in gems was a bit limited.
I just returned from a world of hate and am going to tell you my war story, in order to spare you the trip.
A while ago I wrote a little piece that was ment to safe people from the SSL-certificate problems that might occur using RVM.
For the past year this problem has not gone away and still exists today.
“Concurrency is a bitch” this famous quote by any developer ever can haunt your everyday work like crazy. Why? Because mainly race-conditions and concurrency does not fit the “normal” way of thinking about code, which normally works like a cursor that processes stuff sequentially.