In Ruby, getters and setters are typically defined by using the class method `attr_accessor`. Normally you see this at the top of the class and it sort of defines what properties that instances of the class will have. I feel like this method causes some confusion for Ruby beginners and it is something I had trouble with myself when I was first starting out. So let's take a look:
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Metova has been growing at an astounding pace. We've opened an office in Conway and are preparing to open ones in Fayetteville, AR and Pensacola, FL. During such a huge period of growth, we've had several Metovians who have worked hard to give back to the company and helped Metova grow to be an even better place to work.
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Exceptions are useful if you use them properly. If you don't use them properly, you will be ridiculed and write bad code. We'll demonstrate how to handle exceptions correctly by showing some ways NOT to handle exceptions and how you can improve your exception handling.
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What is this… refactoring?
Refactoring is often belittled to “cleaning up code.” However, according to Martin Fowler, it is much more than that. It is effectively cleaning code and creating a more stable, maintainable, and reliable internal structure while maintaining the existing external behavior. Read More
In the past few years, Nashville's tech community has grown. Nashville has received hundreds of thousands dollars of funds to assist in building out tech hiring initiatives and drawing more talent to the city.
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Leading Technology Company to Provide Support to Cyber Battle Lab’s Mission to Support the Warfighter
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Leading App Development Company Brings Innovative Technology Jobs and Work Culture to Northwest Arkansas
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Excerpts from CUES "Options for Apps"
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RxJava has many uses, especially for applications requiring any amount of asynchronous operations. If you do not have experience with RxJava (or any of its sister implementations), I recommend checking it out and seeing if it can help improve your applications. I will not be covering the basics of RxJava in this blog, so a familiarity with the core concepts is recommended. In this blog I will be covering how to create a simple bus implementation using RxJava in a pure Java application. This implementation can be ported to other Java-based platforms, such as Android. There are a few particulars I will cover before jumping into the implementation.
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At the Google Nexus event today, Google's CEO and others from their leadership team unveiled several new and improved products as well as launched the new Android 6.0 update named Marshmallow. They made sure everyone understood that the ubiquity of Google and their products was only going to become more profound with the passage of time.
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