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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
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
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