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Removing Sass Duplication Using Sass Maps

How Sass maps empower you to write less code.
Kyle Fiedler
April 4, 2014
- Sass
- Good Code
- Design
What's New in Edge Rails: Active Record enums

Try out enums, a new data structure macro in Rails.
Prem Sichanugrist
April 1, 2014
- Web
- Rails
Streaming downloads proxy service with Node.js

Use microservices to compose and analyse light-weight declarative data pipelines.
Ismael Celis
March 31, 2014
- JavaScript
- Rails
- New Bamboo
- Web
Welcome Aboard: You're Riding iOS on Rails!

Announcing a new book on writing an API in Ruby on Rails for iOS apps.
Jessie Young
March 27, 2014
- News
- Web
- iOS
- Books
Manage Team and Personal Dotfiles Together with rcm

How to have your individual dotfiles and your company’s dotfiles live in harmony together.
Dan Croak
March 16, 2014
- Unix
- Open Source
Back to Basics: Polymorphism and Ruby

An in-depth look at polymorphism over inheritance in Ruby.
Britt Ballard
March 14, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- Ruby
A Closer Look at Color Lightness

What is color? Can we taste it? Smell it? Find out in this article.
Reda Lemeden
March 13, 2014
- Design
- Color
flexboxes + media queries = awesome layouts

Flexboxes provide an awesome way of letting your web browser arrange the layout of your page in a systematic way.
Lee Machin
March 10, 2014
- CSS
- New Bamboo
- Web
Getting Started with Sass, Bourbon, and Neat with Yeoman

How set up a project with the CSS suite Sass, Bourbon, and Neat using the build toolchain Yeoman, Grunt, and Bower.
Don Okuda
March 10, 2014
- Bourbon
- Sass
- Design
Printing Ralph

I’ve been playing with 3D printing, which is super-fun. See how I printed Ralph, thoughtbot’s lovable mascot.
Jon Yurek
March 7, 2014
- 3D Printing
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