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Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws

Ever seen a hard-to-parse conditional like this? def allow_access_to_site? ...
Gabe Berke-Williams
December 20, 2013
- Web
- Good Code
Animating Modals in Angular.js

The end result is a beautiful transition and zero conditionals.
Sage Griffin
December 17, 2013
- Design
- Web
- JavaScript
Capybara Webkit 1.1.0: Screenshots and Better ClickFailed Debugging

Capybara Webkit 1.1.0 has been released and it contains some great new...
Joe Ferris
December 12, 2013
- News
- Web
- Testing
- Capybara Webkit
Using JavaScript Promises to Reason About User Interaction

Asynchronicity isn’t just for concurrency, and promises aren’t just for XHR.
Sage Griffin
December 11, 2013
- Web
- JavaScript
Introducing Metis Bootcamp

I am excited to announce that Kaplan Test Prep, the global leader in test...
Chad Pytel
December 10, 2013
- News
- Web
- Metis
Using Polymorphism to Make a Better Activity Feed in Rails

You won’t find “polymorphic partials” in Rails’ API documentation. However,...
Dan Croak
December 2, 2013
- Web
- Rails
Improving the Command-Line Postgres Experience

Understanding the ~/.psqlrc configuration file, its options, and reading...
Gabe Berke-Williams
November 30, 2013
- Web
- PostgreSQL
Caching API Requests

When making requests to an external service’s API, some requests will...
Dan Croak
November 29, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Anti-Pattern: Iteratively Building a Collection

How Ruby’s Enumerable module can turn lengthy, verbose iterations into clear abstractions.
Mike Burns
November 25, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Ruby and Python Libraries for Yammer's API

We’ve worked closely with folks at Yammer to help developers build...
Adarsh Pandit
November 24, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Python
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