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Let Your Code Speak For Itself

Comments are like playing telephone. Avoid them with clearer method names.
Adarsh Pandit
July 16, 2014
- Web
- Good Code
Preload Resource Data into AngularJS

Preloading, or bootstrapping, data resources from the server via HTML is a...
Greg Lazarev
July 15, 2014
- Web
- JavaScript
- AngularJS
What Not to Ask

We love making software, but how do we make software that people love back?
Paul Smith
July 10, 2014
Laptop Setup for an Awesome Development Environment

Don’t manually setup your new laptop with a series of copy-and-pasted steps from some blog post. Leverage automation and the open source community to save time and get a more stable result.
Dan Croak
June 18, 2014
- Web
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Unix
- OS X
Foolproof I18n Setup in Rails

Let’s make I18n on Rails better, quickly and easily. These tips have helped...
Gabe Berke-Williams
June 17, 2014
- Web
- Rails
How Rails' Type Casting Works

Why is it that when you assign a property to an Active Record model and read it back, the value isn’t always the same?
Sage Griffin
June 16, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Applicative Options Parsing in Haskell

I’ve just finished work on a small command line client for the Heroku Build...
Pat Brisbin
June 13, 2014
- Web
- Haskell
Shared Terminology Yet Different Concepts Between Ember.js and Rails

Developers who are well versed in Ruby on Rails (or other MVC...
Tute Costa
June 12, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Ember
- JavaScript
Swift Sequences

We’re incredibly excited about the new Swift programming language announced...
Gordon Fontenot
June 11, 2014
- iOS
- Swift
Expanding the Raleigh Office

We’re hiring a designer and a developer in Raleigh. Come join our team.
Christian Reuter
June 10, 2014
- News
- Raleigh
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