Apple’s App Store was a constant source of stress in the development process. Every time another story of Apple randomly booting an app from the store came out, the...
...Apple could deny the app, or even keep it in limbo forever, made us second- or third-guess every design decision. “Will this pixel hurt our chances of getting accepted...
Testing with real live production data does come with at least one catch. All those real live users in your...
Web designers must be free to experiment with these new fonts, to sketch, comp and get to know these typefaces in browser and non-browser applications. This is...
This isn't about commercial software vs. Open Source software. It's about assessing your real needs and understanding the cost-benefit balance before making significant financial decisions. Don't...
...Gemfile.lock in your working directory that you cannot remove by either checkout, reset [--hard], stash, probably Rails' Spring is the culprit and not Bundler itself. Fix spring stop
...of the linked Stackoverflow post supposes Spring re-writes the Gemfile.lock on change to ensure all Spring processes are using the same gem versions. Meh...
Lightweight Angular JS directive to upload files Includes polyfills for old IEs. Unfortunately, their auto-loading mechanism may not work...
...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...
...and titles, like [#15775609] Index view for conflicts The geordi command commit automates this. (See: Pretty Commit messages via geordi). Just run geordi commit and it will connect to PT...
...and let you select from a list of all started and finishes stories. Then it runs git commit with the generated message (i.e. all staged changes will be commited).
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...
E. g. in the following example, Array could mean either Foo::Array or simply Array: class Foo def list Array.new end end What Ruby does here is to see...
...if the name Array makes sense inside of Foo::, and if that fails, resolves it to ::Array (without a namespace). The bad This is relevant for old Ruby versions. Ruby...
...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...
...multiply a BigDecimal with another BigDecimal, the result will be a new BigDecimal with sufficient precision to represent the result. No rounding or clipping should occur in that operation.
...means you just transitioned back into the land of random rounding errors. Don't screw up your clean BigDecimal values by thoughtlessly multiplying them with a Float. For instance, this...
...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...
...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...
The linked article has a great explanation how to to deal with string encodings in Ruby. Furthermore you can check out some of our cards about encoding: Ruby's default...
...encodings can be unexpected How to fix invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 error
Bundler 2 introduced various incompatibilites und confusing behavior. To add to the confusion, Bundler's behavior changed after the release...
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...