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Capybara Webkit 1.1.0: Screenshots and Better ClickFailed Debugging

Capybara Webkit 1.1.0 has been released and it contains some great new...
Joe Ferris
December 12, 2013
- News
- Web
- Testing
- Capybara Webkit
Using JavaScript Promises to Reason About User Interaction

Asynchronicity isn’t just for concurrency, and promises aren’t just for XHR.
Sage Griffin
December 11, 2013
- Web
- JavaScript
Introducing Metis Bootcamp

I am excited to announce that Kaplan Test Prep, the global leader in test...
Chad Pytel
December 10, 2013
- News
- Web
- Metis
Moving Open Source Project Mailing Lists to Stack Overflow

For several years, there have been two ways of getting in touch with us for...
Joe Ferris
December 9, 2013
- News
- Open Source
Career Day at San Francisco International High School

How to describe software engineering careers to impressionable youths.
Laila Winner
December 5, 2013
- News
- San Francisco
A Sass `!default` use case

From the Sass documentation: You can assign to variables if they aren’t...
Edwin Morris
December 3, 2013
- Sass
- Design
Using Polymorphism to Make a Better Activity Feed in Rails

You won’t find “polymorphic partials” in Rails’ API documentation. However,...
Dan Croak
December 2, 2013
- Web
- Rails
Improving the Command-Line Postgres Experience

Understanding the ~/.psqlrc configuration file, its options, and reading...
Gabe Berke-Williams
November 30, 2013
- Web
- PostgreSQL
Caching API Requests

When making requests to an external service’s API, some requests will...
Dan Croak
November 29, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Faster Grepping in Vim

We often search our projects for specific text within Vim like so: :grep...
Dan Croak
November 27, 2013
- Vim
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