Some great links for 05/06/2019
How to Schedule Cron Jobs in Ruby With the Whenever Gem Useful gem to have in your toolbox. tags: tutorial ruby [Cron](https://www.diigo.com/use...
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Some great links for 05/02/2019
How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance. Unusual article not about computers, still with some excellen...
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Some great links for 04/24/2019
Microsoft Launches Bosque: An Open Source Programming Language Interesting to see a brand new language come out of research. tags: open source programming language microsoft Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 04/23/2019
Why OO Sucks Joe Armstrong is a famous person in Erlang circles. He passes away yesterday. tags: OO oop object oriented Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 04/22/2019
Dockerize the multi-services application for local development Combining multiple services in a container makes local development easier...
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textacular/textacular: Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacularwill extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun! This really works! I’ve been ...
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Faster PostgreSQL Counting More abo!ut performance of Postgres tags: postgres performance [postgresql](https://www.diigo.com/user/p...
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How do I know whether my Rails app is thread-safe or not? Quite good explanation of thread safety in Ruby apps tags: ruby threads rails threadsafe Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 04/14/2019
Maintain the “GitHub flow” with Gitpod, an online, browser IDE – JAXenter Looks quite useful if it works nicely. tags: ide online github Public Sans Could be useful! tags: font Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 04/13/2019
Hire People or Optimize Processes: A cost-benefit analysis for engineering leaders Perspective on the payback of hiring more pe...
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Don’t confuse Ruby’s ‘throw’ statement with ‘raise’ (Example) Wow this is a really good one. I didn’t know and have to make sure I clear this up in my mind! tags: ruby [...
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codercom/code-server I don’t quite understand this, nor have I tried it. But the claim is pretty amazing: run vocode on aws or azure, so your development environment is hosted there! tags: vscode [tips](htt...
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Architecting Ruby on Rails Apps as Microservices | Codeship | via @codeship Great article about Service Oriented Architectures tags: SOA [rails...
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Untangling Ruby Threads Dealing with Ruby Threads is tricky. And add to that understanding the GIL, and thread unsafeness and its pretty subtle! tags: concurrency [ruby](https://www.diigo.c...
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Some great links for 03/30/2019
Scaling a Ruby on Rails app on Heroku You know I’m into scalability right now. Here’s a short article with lots of the basics. tags: ruby [scalability](https://www.diigo...
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Stop using so many divs! An intro to semantic HTML This makes a ...
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Drawing Graphs using Dot and Graphviz Another great overview and cheatsheet for Dot tags: graphviz diagrams dot howto cheatsheet Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Some great links for 03/25/2019
Flatdoc A super simple automatic open source doc generator. Except I dont quite understand it. I have a feeling once I try it it will be obvious tags: documentation [opensource](https://www.diigo.com/user/pi...
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Redis streams as a pure data structure Really really interesting use case for REDIS, and a great scalability pattern tags: scale redis [datastructures](https://www.diigo.com...
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Presenting XXH3 Always interesting to see major improvements in classic algorithms tags: compression algorithms [data](...
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