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Shall We Play A Game?RubyConf 20152015-11-15
A Ruby solver for Ricochet Robots tackles a 16×16 board with 976.5 billion possible states using DFS, BFS and A; practical tricks include moving the active…
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Lightning TalksRubyConf 20152015-11-15
Quick notes so picking tonight is concrete: Michael Hartl is soliciting Learn Enough to be Dangerous collaborators and newbies by email; Tommy Talker uses…
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Shall We Play A Game?LoneStarRuby Conf 20152015-08-15
Uses Ricochet Robots on a 16×16 grid to show concrete tradeoffs: state space about 976.5 billion states, branching factor 9–20, and a rule that the active…
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Getting a Handle on Legacy CodeRailsConf 20152015-04-21
Starts with the Gilded Rose kata, adds support for conjured items that must degrade quality twice as fast, and proves it with focused specs plus Golden‑Master…
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Solving Ricochet RobotsMountainWest RubyConf 20152015-03-09
Solves Ricochet Robots (16 by6 grid, five robots) by treating robot positions plus current goal as the state, using breadth‑first search with optimizations to…
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Affordances in Programming LanguagesRubyConf 20142014-11-17
Shows concrete translations between languages: Smalltalk’s name Constructors become Ruby class methods for polar/cartesian points, Smalltalk’s ability to pass…
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Gilding the Rose: Refactoring Legacy CodeGoGaRuCo 20142014-09-19
Uses the Gilded Rose kata and characterization tests with 100% coverage to add conjured items that decay twice as fast, implemented without rewriting the…
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Affordance in Programming LanguagesMountainWest RubyConf 20142014-03-20
Claim: programming languages offer concrete affordances that enable and constrain solutions. Demonstrates applying Smalltalk ideas to Ruby: named constructors…
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