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Lucky, an experimental new web framework by thoughtbot

Lucky, a new Crystal web framework built to catch bugs at compile time, run quickly, and help you write maintainable code.
Paul Smith
October 27, 2017
- Lucky
- Crystal
- Web
Our Favorite Events During Startup Week in Austin

Our recap of some of the best events during Austin Starup Week.
Kyle Fiedler
October 26, 2017
- Startup
- Events
- Austin
Bridging Elm and JavaScript with Ports

Elm is strongly-typed; JavaScript is not. Communication between the two is paramount for large applications and ports enable this.
Josh Clayton
October 25, 2017
- Elm
- JavaScript
- Web
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Playing with Sockets and Processes in Elixir

We make a small line-oriented TCP socket server to explore how sockets and some manual process management works in Elixir.
Jon Yurek
October 24, 2017
- Elixir
- Sockets
- Processes
Kotlin is Dope And So Are Its Custom Property Delegates

An introduction to Kotlin’s delegate properties and some real life examples.
Amanda Hill
October 23, 2017
- Kotlin
- Android
- Mobile
Testing Random Data in Emails with Bamboo

Testing with Bamboo is easy, and it’s still easy when the email’s content includes random data.
David Bernheisel
October 16, 2017
- Bamboo
- Test
- Email
- Phoenix
- Elixir
We’re at the Release Notes Conference in Chicago this week

We’ll be at the Release Notes Conference in Chicago this week. We hope you say “hi”!
Chad Pytel
October 15, 2017
- News
- Mobile
Modeling with Union Types

Clean up Maybe by modeling multiple shapes of data with union types.
Joël Quenneville
October 13, 2017
- Elm
- Web
New Upcase Trail: Intermediate Rails 5

In this course we’ll take a dive deep into Ruby on Rails 5 with a series of tutorials to help you move beyond the basics and start understanding and using more advanced Ruby. Together, we will build a Twitter-like application from start to finish.
Jason Ramirez
October 12, 2017
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