Dealing with randomly failing tests from a team perspective etc.

One of the things that can negatively impact a team morale is random builds - builds where sometimes some tests are failing. Inspired by Martin Fowler's article on Quarantine, in some of our projects we came up with a guideline how we can fix the problem as a team.

It was my first time at INBOUND, and it was the biggest conference I’d ever attended. I was surrounded by the people who create Facebook Ads, YouTube videos, and Snapchat filters for a living.

TL;DR: roll your own.

Ruby 2.4 has unified Fixnum and Bignum into Integer class. It has also deprecated usage of Fixnum and Bignum

Ruby 2.4 implements Array#min and Array#max to find the minimum and maximum value of the array

When we break down a monolithic app into microservices, we go through a process known as decomposition. Simply put: This process can be a bit overwhelming. After all, if you have a really large monolith, you have a ton of code to organize and decompose! Because of this, I believe decomposition is best implemented as […]

It took me many years to understand the simple truth. One HTTP request sent by a browser may include a few separate logical commands. One request does not always equal one logical command.

Part 2: Adding Animation  In Part 1, we created a basic D3 component with React that responds to updates. We can take this a step further if we want. Animation is one of the things D3 does really well, but the details can be a bit challenging at first. We can abstract these away in our […]

[special]This article is an excerpt from "Rails: Novice To Ninja" by Glenn Goodrich and Patrick Lenz. You can purchase the full version of this book here.[/special]