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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
Anti-Pattern: Iteratively Building a Collection

How Ruby’s Enumerable module can turn lengthy, verbose iterations into clear abstractions.
Mike Burns
November 25, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
Ruby and Python Libraries for Yammer's API

We’ve worked closely with folks at Yammer to help developers build...
Adarsh Pandit
November 24, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Python
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
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