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A peek inside my meeting facilitation playbook: co-pilot with me ✈️📕

No grand claims here, just some learned practical insights and tips. Let’s make our meetings enjoyable and effective, shall we?
Bethan Ashley
May 3, 2024
- Meeting
- Teams
- Fun
- Back To Basics
Prove Me Wrong (A Reminder to Myself)

Maybe the real treasure was the mistakes I made along the way.
Louis Antonopoulos
October 5, 2022
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- Debugging
Back to Basics: Boolean Expressions

Write Boolean expressions using operators instead of if/else for a more readable outcome.
Joël Quenneville
June 28, 2021
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- Ruby
- Development
- Web
Back to basics: psql

The right tool for the right job, right? Well let me introduce you to psql.
German Velasco
March 14, 2019
Basic CSS Selector Syntax Explained Using Cats

CSS can be tricky. Learn some basic selector syntax with cats!
Mike Borsare
October 26, 2015
- Fun
- CSS
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- Frontend
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It’s Only Color

Three colors are all you need.
Mike Borsare
February 23, 2015
Back to Basics: Anonymous Functions and Closures

Anonymous functions and closures are a useful concepts included in most...
Britt Ballard
October 10, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- Good Code
- Ruby
- JavaScript
Back to Basics: SOLID

SOLID is an acronym created by Bob Martin and Michael Feathers that refers to...
Britt Ballard
September 3, 2014
- Web
- iOS
- Back To Basics
- Good Code
- Ruby
- Swift
Back to Basics: Regular Expressions

Regular expressions are a core skill for developers in any language. Revisit the basics with us to master this foundational technique.
Britt Ballard
May 12, 2014
- Back To Basics
- Regex
Back to Basics: Writing SQL Queries

An in-depth overview of INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements, ORDER BY, INNER JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING clauses, and topics such as join tables and sub-queries.
Britt Ballard
April 21, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- SQL
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