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Back to Basics: SOLID

SOLID is an acronym created by Bob Martin and Michael Feathers that refers to...
Britt Ballard
September 3, 2014
- Web
- iOS
- Back To Basics
- Good Code
- Ruby
- Swift
Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction

Each acceptance test tells a story: a logical progression through a task...
Josh Clayton
September 2, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Paid Private Repos for Hound

Hound is now reviewing 7,000+ GitHub pull requests each week. We are now charging for private repos. Public repos are still free.
Dan Croak
August 19, 2014
- News
- Hound
Building Ralph with SVG

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) is a graphic format, similar to PNG or JPEG,...
Steven Harley
August 18, 2014
- Design
- SVG
Write a Vim Plugin with TDD

Write a Vim plugin with confidence using TDD.
Gabe Berke-Williams
August 15, 2014
- Vim
- TDD
Speed Up Tests by Selectively Avoiding Factory Bot

Learn one simple way to speed up your tests with the factory_bot gem!
Josh Clayton
August 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
UX & Front-End Development Bootcamp

We’re proud to announce that we’re kicking off a new UX & Front-End...
Tyson Gach
August 14, 2014
Using Clearance with RailsAdmin

These days, I find myself implementing RailsAdmin on almost every consulting...
Jessie Young
August 13, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Open Source
- Clearance
Buttons with Hold Events in Angular.js

A nicely decoupled Angular UI component that can easily be reused across applications.
Sage Griffin
August 12, 2014
- Web
- JavaScript
- AngularJS
Silver Searcher Tab Completion with Exuberant Ctags

Improve your Silver Searcher game by introducing tab completion in zsh based on the tags file of the project.
Josh Clayton
August 11, 2014
- Unix
- Shell
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