Echo One

The talks from this session are now online.

Ruby news The drama continues to rumble on with the core language group now taking on responsibility of the dependency management from the US Ruby Central group.

Loop I’ve been doing more technical leadership work recently and apart from spreadsheets that means more documents.

Foreign keys and link tables in SQL Alchemy Foreign keys are surprisingly difficult to define as where as normally a basic Foreign Key is unidirectional with a parent and a child relationship SQL Alchemy often needs you to define the attribute on both mod…

Computer vision A colleague at work has been experimenting with feeding streamed camera and screen sharing video into Gemini 2 Flash and the results are really good.

Community I came across this really interesting project that aims to ensure that the JavaScript libraries are keeping dependencies up to date and that features available in the LTS versions of Node area being used.

The Python coding dojo is back and this time it allows AI assisted coding which means that some of the standard katas become trivial and instead the challenges have to be different to either require different problems to be combined in an interesting way…

If you’ve ever read a piece of advice about using Postgres Enums you’ve probably read not to use them and to use a peer table with foreign key constraints instead.

If an API is exposed and consumed externally don’t use URL-based versioning, instead version via a header or a request parameter.

Winter viruses knocked me about a bit this month so I wasn’t able to get out to all the tech events I had hoped to get to and there were a few bed bound days which were pretty disappointing.