This week I presented a talk, “Hack like a journalist”, at the monthly meeting of LRUG (the London Ruby User Group). Based on my career experience working as both a software developer and in an editorial capacity, it takes a look at how one technique used by news writers – the ‘inverted pyramid’ – applies in the world of newspapers, and how the same principles can work in Ruby, to produce code that is readable and maintainable.

The slides (and links referenced in the talk) are on my site. A video of the presentation can be found at the SkillsMatter site.