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Announcing Scenic - Versioned Database Views for Rails

Database views can improve the performance, composability, and readability of your rails application and Scenic is here to help.
Derek Prior
January 11, 2016
- PostgreSQL
- Rails
- Web
Creating your first iOS Framework

Learn to build your own iOS framework that’s compatible with Carthage, CocoaPods and git submodules.
Jake Craige
January 7, 2016
- iOS
User Testing Gone Wild: A Guide to Course Correction

After some unexpected twists, here’s how to get your user test back on track.
Jaclyn Perrone
December 24, 2015
- Design
- Usability
- Testing
Email confirmation with Clearance

Leverage Clearance’s guards to add email confirmation to your Rails app.
Tute Costa
December 23, 2015
- Clearance
- TDD
- Web
Painting a Picture of Mental Health

People with hobbies are generally healthier. They’re also at a lower risk for some mental health issues.
Caleb Hearth
December 22, 2015
- Fun
- Happiness
Announcing Pester

Automatically nudge your teammates for code reviews.
Melissa Xie
December 21, 2015
- News
- Open Source
- Tools
- Pester
Buy Your Customers a Coffee

Use customer support products like Intercom to meet your customers face-to-face.
Bernerd Schaefer
December 20, 2015
- Playbook
Testing HTML in Phoenix Controllers

Learn how to use ExMachina and Phoenix’s ConnTest for robust controller tests.
Paul Smith
December 17, 2015
- Phoenix
- Elixir
- Testing
Beyond the Basics: Mastering Git

How do you break out of beginner-level Git? And is it worth it?
Ben Orenstein
December 16, 2015
- News
- Git
- Vim
- Upcase
Refactor Until You Feel Almost Comfortable

Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction.
Tute Costa
December 15, 2015
- Good Code
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