Integrity | The easy and fun automated continuous integration server
Integrity is the angel watching over your shoulder while you code. As soon as you push your commits, it builds, runs your tests, and makes sure everything works fine.
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How to make changes to a Ruby gem (as a Rails developer)
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Ruby and Rails deprecation warnings and how to fix them
Add deprecation warnings and their solution or link to available solutions.
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Ruby constant lookup: The good, the bad and the ugly
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The good
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class Fo...
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The JavaScript Object Model: Prototypes and properties
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.
This talk will be in German with English slides.
Introduction
As web developers we work with JavaScript every day, even when our backend code uses anothe...