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CSS transitions and transforms for beginners

Learn to add simple animations and movement to your design with CSS transitions and transforms.
Rachel Cope and Elaina Natario
August 24, 2015
- Design
- CSS
Better Commit Messages with a .gitmessage Template

Bring consistency to the structure of your pull requests.
Matt Sumner
August 6, 2015
- Git
Input/Output Redirection in the Shell

Delve deep into stdout, stderr, and pipes plus some neat tricks that you might not know.
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 3, 2015
- Unix
Testing SMS Interactions

How do you simulate SMS messages in feature specs?
Joël Quenneville
July 27, 2015
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
Griddler is Better Than Ever!

Griddler has some useful new features, and we’ve updated our installation and configuration instructions.
Gabe Berke-Williams
July 24, 2015
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Griddler
- Open Source
The Problem of State

We explore ideas about stateful client-side JavaScript applications, and present a unified strategy to reduce their complexity.
Claudio Ortolina
July 23, 2015
It's About Time (Zones)

An overview of time zones in Rails.
Elle Meredith
July 23, 2015
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
A Case Study in Multiple Time Zones

Handle multiple user-defined time zones in Rails with scheduled background workers.
Elle Meredith
July 23, 2015
- Web
- Rails
- Ruby
Poppins: All Your Favorite GIFs, Ready to Share

Poppins makes it easy to keep track of all your favorite GIFs and easily share them with your friends. And now it’s Open Source!
Tony DiPasquale
July 21, 2015
- News
- iOS
- Swift
- Open Source
- Poppins
Destructuring Parameters in Ember.Helpers

Clean up your Ember.Helpers with destructuring.
Sean Doyle
July 20, 2015
- Web
- Ember
- JavaScript
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