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  1. Turning experience into growth

    You work a full time job shipping features. Use active learning to turn that experience into technical and professional growth.

    Joël Quenneville
    January 27, 2025
    • Learning
    • Development
  2. How to infer the form method for custom objects in Rails

    Automatically infer the correct HTTP verb in your Rails forms by defining the persisted? method.

    Joël Quenneville
    January 15, 2025
    • Development
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
  3. 4 tips when getting started with Hotwire

    A few best practices to keep in mind when getting started with Hotwire and Rails.

    Joël Quenneville
    November 4, 2024
    • Hotwire
    • Rails
    • Web
    • Development
  4. Return an Enumerator When Your Collection Has Multiple Traversals

    When your custom collection has more than one way to be traversed, return Enumerator instead of including Enumerable.

    Joël Quenneville
    August 14, 2024
    • Ruby
    • Enumerator
    • Development
  5. Flesh Out Your Conference Talk Idea Using a Rubric

    Avoid writers block by using a rubric to flesh out your conference talk idea.

    Joël Quenneville
    July 11, 2024
    • Conferences
  6. 3 Mental Models For Ruby Enumerators

    Get a better understanding of Ruby enumerators by looking at them from 3 different perspectives.

    Joël Quenneville
    June 5, 2024
    • Enumerator
    • Ruby
    • Development
  7. Writing Quality Method Docs

    Things I think about when putting together effective method-level documentation.

    Joël Quenneville
    May 31, 2024
    • Web
    • Development
  8. How to approach a reduce problem

    Code written with reduce can be intimidating. This 2-step approach can help.

    Joël Quenneville
    March 13, 2024
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Functional Programming
  9. A Peek Behind the Curtain of Our New Open Source Page

    How did we build the new Open Source page?

    Joël Quenneville and Neil Carvalho
    September 4, 2023
    • Ruby
    • Open Source
    • Web
  10. Structuring Conditionals in a Wizard

    Branching early helps structure multi-step forms.

    Joël Quenneville
    August 8, 2023
    • Good Code
    • Elm
    • Ruby
    • Rails
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