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Let Your Code Speak For Itself

Comments are like playing telephone. Avoid them with clearer method names.
Adarsh Pandit
July 16, 2014
- Web
- Good Code
Preload Resource Data into AngularJS

Preloading, or bootstrapping, data resources from the server via HTML is a...
Greg Lazarev
July 15, 2014
- Web
- JavaScript
- AngularJS
Laptop Setup for an Awesome Development Environment

Don’t manually setup your new laptop with a series of copy-and-pasted steps from some blog post. Leverage automation and the open source community to save time and get a more stable result.
Dan Croak
June 18, 2014
- Web
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Unix
- OS X
Foolproof I18n Setup in Rails

Let’s make I18n on Rails better, quickly and easily. These tips have helped...
Gabe Berke-Williams
June 17, 2014
- Web
- Rails
How Rails' Type Casting Works

Why is it that when you assign a property to an Active Record model and read it back, the value isn’t always the same?
Sage Griffin
June 16, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Applicative Options Parsing in Haskell

I’ve just finished work on a small command line client for the Heroku Build...
Pat Brisbin
June 13, 2014
- Web
- Haskell
Shared Terminology Yet Different Concepts Between Ember.js and Rails

Developers who are well versed in Ruby on Rails (or other MVC...
Tute Costa
June 12, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Ember
- JavaScript
Testing from the Outside-In

A few months ago my colleague Josh Steiner wrote a comprehensive post on How...
Joël Quenneville
June 9, 2014
- Web
- Testing
How to Share a Session Between Sinatra and Rails

Mount a Sinatra app via Rails routes or use Rack::Builder if you need a custom middleware stack for your Sinatra app.
Joël Quenneville
May 30, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Sinatra
Workflows for Writing Migrations With Rollbacks in Mind

Sleep better at night knowing your migrations are reversible.
Simon Taranto
May 29, 2014
- Web
- Rails
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