...buy iApps. Buying an iPad for your kids isn't a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it's a...
...way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals...
Splitting a long method into sub methods is easier in instances since it is in classes. Since you must not save state in a class, you need...
...a long chain of parameters again and again. If your public API has a single entry point, you can still have a class-level method that takes care of constructing...
YARD 0.6 adds the ability to serve documentation for gems as well as the current project with yard server. Just like gem server in RubyGems, you can serve gem docs...
...The advantage to YARD’s server is that you don’t need to pre-generate the static docs (with a gem install) before running the server. If you installed your...
...is a method Hash#to_query that will turn a Hash into a query string: >> {:a => "a", :b => ["c", "d", "e"]}.to_query => "a=a&b%5B%5D=c&b...
...a=a&b[]=c&b[]=d&b[]=e" If you're on the browser side, you can serialize nestd objects to query strings using jQuery's $.param...
Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph. The linked page offers a simple yet concise explanation of how git is...
...a directed acyclic graph with post-it notes'). Each feature is illustrated by a simple diagram, so you get a sound understanding of how each command affects git's structure...
A lot of the advice involves less separations of concerns in your code ("don't use $watch", "don't use isolated scopes"), but it's a nice summary of what...
...the purpose of this article "large" mostly mean "large number of watchers/bindings on a single screen". Angular doesn't automatically become large just because you have a lot of screens...
Fixed bugs where calling valid? would change the record's state...
...probably one of the most dramatic reimaginations of the desktop user interface I’ve seen in a long time. This concept proposes a multitouch interaction system that does not require...
...a multitouch screen (and thus does not have to deal with all the problems such a screen causes), but instead uses a multitouch area near the keyboard...
...doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates. This means if you share a slide show with a font that is not Arial or Times, other people will...
...everything and creates a big ass PDF full of images. A workaround The only solution is to directly print the PDF to a PDF printer, or take the PDF generated...
...definitive reference for what work is triggered by changing various CSS properties. It's something I get asked about often enough by developers, and while we can do tests with...
...DevTools, I have both the time and inclination to shortcut that for everyone. I'm nice like that. —Paul Lewis
Chargify handles every aspect of recurring billing for your Web 2.0 or SaaS company so there’s no need to build a custom billing application. In addition to processing one...
When your Rails controller action responds with only a simple text, render text: 'Hello' may not be what you want. You should not even use it on Rails 4.1+ any...
By default, a "text" response from a Rails controller will still be a sent as text/html: render text: 'Hello' response.body # => "Hello" response.content_type # => "text/html" While this may not be...
...are times when you have a chunk of text that you want to do something with, e.g. replace something on it, or quickly edit it. While you can open your...
...favorite non-RubyMine editor for this, there is also a plugin: Scratch. It allows RubyMine to open temporary files (actually they are saved, but somewhere inside the plugin's directory...
Ruby's net/http is setup to never verify SSL certificates by default. Most ruby libraries do the same. That means that you're not verifying the identity of the server...
This article will show you how to use throw and catch. It's a nice tool to break out of multiple loops when a result is obtained.
...card Ruby: A small summary of what return, break and next means for blocks...
Ruby's standard library is in the process of being gemified. It will soon - Ruby 2.5 - consist of RubyGems, which can be updated independently from Ruby. This might mean smoother...
...Ruby upgrades in the future. If breaking API changes happen in standard gems, we can update these before upgrading Ruby...
...should be familiar with coordinates. Most JavaScript methods deal with one of two coordinate systems: Relative to the window(or another viewport) top/left. Relative to the document top/left.
The rack-contrib gem brings a JSONP middleware that just works™. Whenever a JSON request has a callback parameter, it...
Good article about what "gamma correction" means for color processing, and what "sRGB" actually means. You probably do not need to know this for web development, but it's an...
Presentation about optimizing Ruby on Rails apps. From Nico Hagenburger (homify's lead frontend developer).
Since jQuery 3 saw it's first release candidate today, the links has a list of (breaking) changes...
Uses FFI and works all relevant operating systems. If you'd try to do it yourself, you'd have to use FFI which is a bit awkward (see the gem...
...s code), or call commands like df -B1 and search the strings for your relevant data. That gem takes the pain away and works nicely...
Install this gem and stop using bundle exec or even Geordi's handy b. Yay...
Using the CSS border-radius property, we can create rounded shapes and circles. Add some gradients and they become spheres. Let’s try that, and add some animation to bring...