Some great links for 05/26/2020
The Definitive Guide to Python import Statements | Chris Yeh Another good article about Python modularity tags: python import howto modularity Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Some great links for 04/23/2020
Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers’ Websites · mtlynch.io This kind of thing doesn’t bother me too much. But I know certain people are totally freaked out by it. tags: security privacy stripe spying Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 04/11/2020
Cleaning and Prepping Data with Python for Data Science — Best Practices and Helpful Packages Tour de force explanation of techniques for data cleaning in python data...
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The Art of Command Line We all live in the shell. (Yes, if you’re not geekish that sentence makes no sense). And you can always learn a little more and some special trick to make your day. Here’s another reference. tags: [...
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Some great links for 03/29/2020
How to do multi-step forms in Rails – Code with Jason Really good simple explanation of making a multi step form in Rails. tags: code rails howto forms patterns Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 03/26/2020
Facade Pattern in Rails for Performance and Maintainability | AppSignal Blog Good explanation. Although I don’t know exactly what his difference is between a facade, a presenter and a service ...
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Test Double | Our Blog | Improving Dev Experience with Overmind Foreman is now superseded by overmind, which is better and more awesome. Worth a look. tags: dev overmind tools foreman rails howto Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 03/08/2020
Integrate Bootstrap 4 and Font Awesome 5 in Rails 6 This can always be a paining the butt. And now that Rails4 uses all this new and badly integrated package management stuff it gets worse. This is a helpfu...
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Please stop recommending Git Flow! – George Stocker It’s always hard to handle branches. This was a very popular post when it came out. tags: howto branches git cargocultimg Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 03/06/2020
Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby. There are many of these building blocks. Use this to mock a web service that your system depends on. That way you can test your system without incurring the costs (in money and time) of ca...
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Ruby on Rails Mistakes that could kill Your Production Servers Specific good advice on rails performance and scale. tags: servers ruby on rails howto ruby production Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 03/02/2020
Google Interviewing Process for Software Developer Role in 2020 / Habr The madness of interviewing at google. OMG! tags: software google [developer](https://www.dii...
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Some great links for 02/28/2020
How to write Javascript in Rails 6 | Webpacker, Yarn and Sprockets A good introduction to the very confusing combination of JavaScript, yarn, css, etc in rails 6. Hopefully they will clean this up in rails 7. tags: javascript yarn rails Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 02/26/2020
jq – CLI for JSON files This is an amazing tool when you need it. Do queries, merges, filters on json files. You only need it once or twice a year but when you need it, it’s a life saver! tags: json tool howto Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 02/11/2020
SSL Cert Rotation with Runbook | dev/blesi More about Runbook my favorite automation tool so far! tags: ssl cert rotation runbook Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 02/09/2020
Gemifying Your Style Guide to DRY Your CSS – Ruby on Rails Upgrades A very nice technique to build a gem with all your css and js in one place. tags: ruby on rails ...
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Some great links for 02/05/2020
How to Fake a Traffic Jam on Google Maps – VICE This is really interesting and cute. Maybe too cute. Urban legend? tags: [fake](https://www.diigo.com/u...
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Some great links for 01/31/2020
Different Ways to Set Attributes in ActiveRecord (Rails 6) It’s always hard to remember all the different options that activerecord offers for manipulating data. tags: programming rails activerecord Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 01/28/2020
The Cost of Investing Too Heavily in a JavaScript Framework – DEV Community For serious projects, think twice about betting totally on a big heavy framework. Make sure you really need it because you are buying into a big and permanent tax on your project. tags: javascript framework Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.