Kevin Murphy

Software Developer | Web Applications | Sometimes Conference Speaker

Boston, MA Joined on Feb 20, 2021 https://kevinjmurphy.com/

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology & Bentley University

Work

Software Developer at BookBub

Kevin Murphy

May 11

Scraping Buy: Scripting for a Purchase

#ruby

4 min read

Hotwired Modals

Great post! If you gave each gadget an id using dom_id, could...

Apr 29

Finding an Initially Confusing Result in Rails

Using tap will work as well. If you care about the return val...

Mar 23

Situational Leadership: A Developer's Business

Part 2 is now available! dev.to/kevin_j_m/competitive-advan...

Jan 31

Communication Culture at the Gnar

Thanks for sharing!

Jan 20

Situational Leadership: A Developer's Business

Thanks Bill!

Jan 19

Situational Leadership: A Developer's Business

Thanks for the feedback. I have 2 more planned to make it a s...

Jan 17

Code Golf: Conditionally Add To An Array

While not strictly focused on the fewest keystrokes to solve ...

Sep 29 '21

Validate CSV Input With ActiveModel::Validations

Thanks for the comment. Because the scope of this article spe...

Jul 20 '21

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Kevin Murphy

Mar 14

Finding an Initially Confusing Result in Rails

#ruby #rails

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4 min read

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Feb 28

Business Process Management: A Developer's Business

#leadership #management #productivity #career

4 min read

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Feb 14

Core Competency: A Developer's Business

#leadership #management #productivity #career

4 min read

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Jan 31

Competitive Advantage: A Developer's Business

#leadership #management #productivity #career

4 min read

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Jan 17

Situational Leadership: A Developer's Business

#leadership #management #productivity #career

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5 min read

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Dec 13 '21

2021 Year-End Review

5 min read

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Nov 18 '21

Setter Method Return Values In Ruby

#ruby

3 min read

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Oct 22 '21

Ruby's Got You Covered

#ruby

7 min read

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Oct 5 '21

Gnarly Learnings from September

2 min read

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Sep 28 '21

Code Golf: Conditionally Add To An Array

#ruby

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3 min read

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Sep 20 '21

Buffered IO Streams In Ruby

#ruby

3 min read

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Sep 7 '21

Gnarly Learnings from August

#postgres #ruby #typescript #git

3 min read

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Aug 27 '21

Best Practices Are The Best For Whom?

#leadership #testing #ruby

5 min read

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Aug 16 '21

Temporary State in Tests: Bloc(k) Party

#ruby #rails

5 min read

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Aug 2 '21

Gnarly Learnings from July

#ruby #typescript #testing #css

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3 min read

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Jul 19 '21

Validate CSV Input With ActiveModel::Validations

#ruby #rails

8 2

4 min read

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Jul 6 '21

Gnarly Learnings from June

#leadership #career #learning #testing

3 min read

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Jun 1 '21

Gnarly Learnings from May

3 min read

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May 19 '21

RailsConf Roundup 2021

#ruby #rails #speaking

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2 min read

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May 16 '21

ActiveRecord's New Takes a Block, Kid

#ruby #rails #activerecord

4 min read

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Apr 30 '21

Gnarly Learnings from April

3 min read

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Apr 24 '21

Consistency Conundrum

#ruby #architecture

4 min read

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Apr 18 '21

To Change Or Not To Change

#architecture #ruby

4 min read

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Apr 2 '21

Gnarly Learnings from March

#ruby #rails #database #leadership

3 min read

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Mar 28 '21

Wrapping Up Rails Exceptional Behavior

#ruby #rails

3 min read

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Mar 22 '21

(W)rapping About Exceptional Behavior In Rails

#ruby #rails #bundler

9 min read

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Mar 11 '21

Querying PaperTrail Object Changes in JSON

#ruby #postgres

4 min read

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Mar 10 '21

Caching All Native Ruby Gem Platforms

#ruby #nokogiri #bundler

3 min read

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Mar 9 '21

Stringing Code Together to Play Music

#ruby #architecture #programming #music

5 min read

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Mar 9 '21

Using Sonic Pi to Play Music With Ruby

#ruby #architecture #programming #music

3 min read

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Mar 9 '21

Inheritance: Derivative Songwriting

#ruby #architecture #programming

7 min read

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Mar 9 '21

Synthesizing Composition With Delegation

#ruby #programming #architecture

4 min read

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Mar 9 '21

Shedding a Light on Duck Typing

#ruby #programming #architecture

4 min read

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Mar 9 '21

Dependency Injection: Plug In

#ruby #architecture #programming

5 min read

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Mar 8 '21

EXPLAIN Like I'm Five: Five ways to run EXPLAIN on your Rails database queries

#ruby #sql #rails #postgres

4 min read

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Mar 4 '21

Diffin' Dots

#git #github

5 min read

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