Dave Kennedy

Dave is a web application developer residing in sunny Glasgow, Scotland. He works daily with Ruby but has been known to wear PHP and C++ hats. In his spare time he snowboards on plastic slopes, only reads geek books and listens to music that is certainly not suitable for his age.

Dave's articles

Giant Killing with Beanstalkd

Ruby

By Dave Kennedy, June 20, 2013

Read Giant Killing with Beanstalkd and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.

State Machines in Ruby

Ruby

By Dave Kennedy, January 28, 2013

Finite State Machines (FSMs) are all around us and if we open our eyes long enough you can see them in play when you buy a can of soda, progress through e-commerce shopping carts, pass through electronic turn styles in train stations.

Rspec-Given

Ruby

By Dave Kennedy, October 16, 2012

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Basecamp-like Subdomains with Devise

Ruby

By Dave Kennedy, December 07, 2011

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Class Variables – A Ruby Gotcha

Ruby

By Dave Kennedy, November 18, 2011

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