tag:www.gotascii.com,2008:mephisto/ Mephisto Drax 2008-05-14T04:41:26Z gotascii tag:www.gotascii.com,2008-05-14:2 2008-05-14T04:29:00Z 2008-05-14T04:41:26Z Today I killed an inheritance tree. I took some advice that Dave Thomas told me and broke free of my inheritance chains. If you have inheritance trees in your application with a root class named something along the lines of "Base" you now have a target to point your gun at. If instances of that base are never created directly and the class is just serving as a place to store your shared code, murder remorselessly. Chances are whatever inherits from that base isn't a base and violates the "is-a" inheritance principal. Move the base code into a module and include or extend where appropriate. Your code will gain more flexibility and raw power if you bite the bullet and put a base class in the ground. admin tag:www.gotascii.com,2008-05-13:1 2008-05-13T05:11:00Z 2008-05-14T04:53:14Z Ahh. I do love that new host smell. Gotascii is now broadcasting semi-live from Slicehost using a Github forked Mephisto running on mod_passenger! Many aspects of this configuration are so very refreshing, but I will leave that to another post. In fact, chances are as I set this bad boy up, this post here will get destroyed. P.S. - New, custom blog design is imminent.