Burdette Lamar

Started out teaching English at Embry-Riddle. Graded 10,000 essays. Lesson learned. Became a mathematics teacher. Discovered computing. Never looked back.

Houston TX Joined on Oct 1, 2017 https://burdettelamar.wordpress.com/

Education

Stetson University: B.A., M.A. in English; M.S. in mathematics

Burdette Lamar

May 14

Ruby Module Enumerable Is Your Hidden Friend

#ruby #documentation #enumerable

1 min read

Rust: Assertions in API doc?

Interesting. I've done something similar in a Ruby project (...

May 15

I've Been Contributing to Ruby Documentation

Thanks, it's good to contribute.

Jan 12

What's Next?

Thanks, Tobias. I will study these.

Apr 23 '21

What's Next?

Any specific suggestions? As for Rails, I know nothing about...

Apr 23 '21

What's Next?

Thanks, Tobias. I'm building a technical legacy. I'm especi...

Apr 23 '21

What was your win this week?

Merged What's Here for Ruby class Hash: dev.to/burdettelamar...

Jan 15 '21

Ruby 2.7.2 has revised Rdoc for ENV

Thanks, @andrew . Also, I think we'll get 3.0 around Christma...

Oct 14 '20

What was your win this week?

The revisions I've made during the last year to Ruby document...

Oct 9 '20

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Burdette Lamar

May 14

Rust: Assertions in API doc?

#rust

4 2

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jan 15

What's Here for Ruby String

#rub #string #documentation

1 min read

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Jan 8

New "What's Here" for Ruby Hash RDoc

#ruby #hash #documentation

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1 min read

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Jan 3

"What's Here" for Ruby Array

#ruby #array #documentation

1 min read

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Jan 1

I've Been Contributing to Ruby Documentation

#ruby #rdoc #documentation

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1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Nov 7 '21

Wrapping a Ruby Method

#ruby #metaprogramming

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Nov 6 '21

Questions for CSV Users

#ruby #csv #testing

3 2

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jul 29 '21

RDoc questions

#ruby #rdoc #documentation #questions

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 22 '21

What's Next?

#ruby #documentation

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2 min read

Burdette Lamar

Mar 9 '21

Task-Oriented Doc for REXML

#ruby #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Mar 5 '21

New Intro and What's Here for REXML::Element

#ruby #xml #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jan 26 '21

New Doc Section "What's Here" for Ruby class String

#ruby #documentation #string

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jan 18 '21

What's Here for Ruby Array RDoc

#ruby #documentation #array

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jan 12 '21

Building a Technical Legacy

#documentation #career #ruby

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1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jan 12 '21

Added Intro and What's Here for Ruby Enumerable Doc

#ruby #documentation #enumerable

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jan 12 '21

What's Here for Ruby Hash Doc

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Oct 30 '20

Revised RDoc for Ruby CSV

#ruby #documentation #csv

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Oct 13 '20

Ruby 2.7.2 has revised Rdoc for ENV

#ruby #env #documentation

2 3

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Oct 11 '20

Ruby 2.7.2 has revised Rdoc for Array

#ruby #array #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Oct 8 '20

Ruby 2.7.2 has revised Rdoc for Hash

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Aug 21 '20

Funny Section Title

#programming #documentation #funny

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jun 8 '20

Rdoc Enhancements for Hash Completed

#ruby #documentation #hash

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

May 22 '20

No More "About Ruby"

#ruby #documentation #hash

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1 min read

Burdette Lamar

May 14 '20

About Ruby Hash#flatten

#ruby #hash #documentation

3 1

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

May 12 '20

About Ruby Hash#filter and Hash#filter!

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

May 10 '20

About Ruby Hash#fetch_values

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

May 5 '20

About Ruby Hash#fetch

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 29 '20

About Ruby Hash#empty? and Hash#eql?

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 28 '20

About Ruby Hash#each_key and Hash#each_value

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 27 '20

About Ruby Hash#each_pair

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 27 '20

Multiple Github PRs?

#help #github

3 5

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 26 '20

About Ruby Hash#dig

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 25 '20

Got New Rdoc Merged into Ruby Core!

#ruby #documentation

7 1

2 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 23 '20

About Ruby Hash#delete and Hash#delete_if

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 22 '20

About Ruby Hash#default and Hash#default=

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 21 '20

About Ruby Hash#compare_by_identity and Hash#compare_by_identity?

#ruby #hash #documentation

3 2

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 20 '20

About Ruby Hash#compact and Hash#compact!

#ruby #hash #documentation

2 1

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 19 '20

Convertible Objects

#ruby #hash #array #documentation

4 1

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 19 '20

About Ruby Hash#clear

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 18 '20

About Ruby Hash#assoc

#ruby #hash #documentation

4 3

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 17 '20

About Ruby Hash#[]= (Assignment)

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 16 '20

About Ruby Hash#[] (Index)

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 15 '20

About Ruby Hash#>= (Superset)

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 14 '20

About Ruby Hash#> (Proper Superset)

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 10 '20

Help Needed: Where to Put Ruby Docs?

#ruby #documentation

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2 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 10 '20

About Ruby Hash#== (Equality)

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 9 '20

About Ruby Hash#<= (Subset)

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 8 '20

About Ruby Hash#< (Proper Subset)

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 7 '20

About Ruby Hash::try_convert

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 6 '20

About Ruby Hash::new

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 5 '20

About Ruby Hash[]

#ruby #hash #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Apr 1 '20

This is Weird

#ruby

6 2

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Mar 29 '20

More About Hash

#ruby #hash #documentation #github

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Mar 15 '20

Gem markdown_helper: 20,000 Downloads

#ruby #markdown #documentation

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Mar 9 '20

Ruby Hash Default Values, Versatile (Of Course!)

#ruby #hash

2 min read

Burdette Lamar

Jan 11 '20

Get Out There!

#opensource #ruby #career #github

2 min read

Burdette Lamar

Sep 14 '19

A Kinder, Gentler Report

#testing #reporting #html #excel

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Sep 6 '19

A Choice

#ruby #rubydoc #documentation

6 1

1 min read

Burdette Lamar

Sep 6 '19

About Ruby Class Exception

#ruby #exception

7 min read

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