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Destructuring Parameters in Ember.Helpers

Clean up your Ember.Helpers with destructuring.
Sean Doyle
July 20, 2015
- Web
- Ember
- JavaScript
Interface With Your Database in Go Tests

Go’s interface provides a way to abstract away things like your database for testing.
Caleb Hearth
July 10, 2015
- Web
- Go
- Testing
Rails Test Types and the Testing Pyramid

Combine multiple test types for an optimal suite.
Joël Quenneville
July 8, 2015
- Web
- Testing
- Rails
Faking APIs in Development and Staging

Use fake API servers everywhere, not just in tests.
Joël Quenneville
July 6, 2015
- Web
- Testing
- Rails
- Ruby
New on Upcase—Onramp To Vim

The best introduction to Vim we know how to make.
Ben Orenstein
July 2, 2015
- News
- Upcase
- Vim
Easy Haskell Development Setup with Docker

Using Docker with Haskell removes the mess of setting up your environment and allows you to focus on the fun of programming in Haskell.
Tony DiPasquale
July 2, 2015
- Web
- Haskell
- Docker
Create a Retention Curve with Mixpanel and Google Sheets

Better visualize product retention with a curve instead of a tabular cohort report.
Dan Croak
July 1, 2015
- Growth
Configure Travis CI for Go

The defaults are useful, but sometimes you need a bit more.
Bernerd Schaefer
June 30, 2015
- Web
- Go
- Travis CI
- CI
Optimizing Full Text Search with Postgres tsvector Columns and Triggers

Improve the speed of Postgres full-text search by introducing a tsvector column to cache lexemes and using a trigger to keep the lexemes up-to-date.
Dan Croak
June 25, 2015
- Web
- Rails
- PostgreSQL
Open Sourcing Tropos, Our iOS Weather App

We launched Tropos back in March. Today, we’re making it available as an open source project.
Gordon Fontenot
June 22, 2015
- News
- iOS
- Open Source
- Tropos
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