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Thinking in Types

A programming language with a type system can help you design abstractions and avoid mistakes.
Pat Brisbin
May 2, 2014
- Web
- Haskell
Styling a Middleman Blog with Bourbon, Neat, and Bitters

How to set up and style a Middleman static site with the Bourbon Sass suite.
Carolann Bonner
April 29, 2014
- Web
- Design
- Bourbon
- Middleman
- Ruby
Sass's `@content` Directive Use Cases

See examples of how the Sass @content directive can empower us to remove duplication in our SCSS, and think more creatively about its organization and implementation.
Christian Reuter
April 22, 2014
- Sass
- Design
Back to Basics: Writing SQL Queries

An in-depth overview of INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements, ORDER BY, INNER JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING clauses, and topics such as join tables and sub-queries.
Britt Ballard
April 21, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- SQL
Test Driving iOS - A Primer

Using Specta, Expecta, and OCMock, we’ll take a look at how we can test-drive our iOS apps in Objective-C.
Gordon Fontenot
April 16, 2014
- iOS
- Testing
Refactoring Ruby Iteration Patterns to the Database

Calculations across objects are ripe for using a map and an inject but frequently, with ActiveRecord, the solution is more elegant and faster if we can have SQL do the work instead.
Simon Taranto
April 15, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- SQL
Shoulda Matchers 2.6.0

Announcing the latest version of Shoulda Matchers, now ready for Rails 4.1.
Elliot Winkler
April 14, 2014
- News
- Web
- Ruby
- Open Source
- Testing
- Shoulda
Extract Mostly-Constant Data from the Database

How moving some data out of the database and into your codebase as well-named constants can decouple your code and improve performance.
Tute Costa
April 11, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- SQL
Introducing Hound

Introducing Hound, a hosted service that keeps your codebase clean by commenting on style guide violations or other linting issues in your GitHub pull requests.
Scott Albertson
April 9, 2014
- News
- Web
- Hound
- Ruby
- Good Code
- Open Source
Back to Basics: Writing Unit Tests First

Step-by-step instructions for learning Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Ruby. There’s nothing to fear! It’s fun.
Britt Ballard
April 7, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
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