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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
Data Migrations in Rails

A discussion about the reasons for using Active Record migrations vs. temporary rake tasks for data manipulations.
Elle Meredith
December 8, 2015
- Rails
- Data
- Suspenders
- Web
Solving the Pain of Forms on Static Sites

Or, “Styling Wufoo forms is not the answer”.
Ben Orenstein
December 7, 2015
- Formkeep
Hound Checks JavaScript Code Style

Announcing JSCS support for Hound.
Sean Doyle
December 2, 2015
- Hound
- JavaScript
- Style Guides
- Web
Opt-In, Project-Specific Vim Spell-Checking and Word Completion

Improve your project team’s spelling abilities with these Vim tips.
Dan Croak
December 1, 2015
- Vim
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