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Giving Thanks

Thank you to every single one of you yes all of you even that guy.
Gabe Berke-Williams
November 24, 2013
- Playbook
Handling API Rate Limits by Retrying Requests in Background Jobs

Has your app ever encountered a 429 (Too Many Requests) status code when...
Greg Lazarev
November 23, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Don't Stub the System Under Test

xUnit Test Patterns defines the System Under Test (SUT) as: whatever class,...
Joe Ferris
November 22, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
How To Create GitHub Avatars For Pairs

Whether you love or hate pairing, we can all agree that attributing work to...
Jessie Young
November 21, 2013
- Git
Streaming Audio to Multiple Listeners via iOS' Multipeer Connectivity

Music has always been a very important part of iPhones and all Apple devices....
Tony DiPasquale
November 20, 2013
- iOS
Vim Spell-Checking

There are times when we edit prose in Vim, such as in a project README or git...
Dan Croak
November 19, 2013
- Vim
Rescue StandardError, Not Exception

Sometimes our Ruby programs throw errors which we don’t have full control...
Jon Yurek
November 18, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Faking Remote Services with Rack::Test

Using Rack middleware, we can reroute Rack::Test requests to fake remote...
Joe Ferris
November 16, 2013
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
No Newline at End of File

Have you ever seen “No newline at end of file” in your git diffs? Us, too....
Mike Burns
November 15, 2013
- Unix
- Vim
- Git
Sass Variables

Variables in Sass can be seen as simple versions of symbols in Fireworks or...
Magnus Gyllenswärd
November 14, 2013
- Sass
- Color
- Design
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