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How Rails' Type Casting Works

Why is it that when you assign a property to an Active Record model and read it back, the value isn’t always the same?
Sage Griffin
June 16, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Applicative Options Parsing in Haskell

I’ve just finished work on a small command line client for the Heroku Build...
Pat Brisbin
June 13, 2014
- Web
- Haskell
Shared Terminology Yet Different Concepts Between Ember.js and Rails

Developers who are well versed in Ruby on Rails (or other MVC...
Tute Costa
June 12, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Ember
- JavaScript
Swift Sequences

We’re incredibly excited about the new Swift programming language announced...
Gordon Fontenot
June 11, 2014
- iOS
- Swift
Expanding the Raleigh Office

We’re hiring a designer and a developer in Raleigh. Come join our team.
Christian Reuter
June 10, 2014
- News
- Raleigh
Testing from the Outside-In

A few months ago my colleague Josh Steiner wrote a comprehensive post on How...
Joël Quenneville
June 9, 2014
- Web
- Testing
Analyzing Minard's Visualization Of Napoleon's 1812 March

In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte calls...
Joanne Cheng
June 8, 2014
- Data
iOS Text Kit Basics

Apple’s Text Kit framework, added to iOS 7, lets you customize layout of rich text in your apps in a variety of ways. This will show you how to get started by implementing a multi-column view using Text Kit.
Jack Nutting
May 30, 2014
- iOS
How to Share a Session Between Sinatra and Rails

Mount a Sinatra app via Rails routes or use Rack::Builder if you need a custom middleware stack for your Sinatra app.
Joël Quenneville
May 30, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Sinatra
Workflows for Writing Migrations With Rollbacks in Mind

Sleep better at night knowing your migrations are reversible.
Simon Taranto
May 29, 2014
- Web
- Rails
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