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Ruby Threads and ActiveRecord Connections

A Year of Commits - 14 February 2016

Processing large data sets is a common problem faced by many production web applications. One solution is to divide the work amongst multiple processes and have each responsible for a single or significantly smaller batch of data. However, this solution is not without its problems. Machine provisioning limitations or financial barriers may invalidate this solution for a very large N.

Five Hacks to Level Up Your Learning as a Developer

Quick Left - 12 February 2016

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I learn. I was a teacher before I started programming, so I spent many hours studying how people learn. Since being a developer involves constantly staying on top of the latest technologies, I’ve turned these strategies on myself in service of learning more, faster. In a previous […]

Recap: Continuous Testing Meets the Classroom: Testing Online, Interactive Curriculum at Code.org [Webinar]

Sause Labs - 12 February 2016

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent webinar, “Continuous Testing Meets the Classroom: Testing Online, Interactive Curriculum at Code.org”, featuring Brian Jordan from Code.org. In his presentation, Brian discussed how Code.org approaches testing throughout the product development cycle, given their unique testing challenges – developing interactive, game-like curriculum for just the types of browsers you’d expect […]

Rails: MVP vs prototype

Arkency - 12 February 2016

In the last blog post I explained my approach to using Rails to quickly start a new app. In short - I’m starting with Rails but I also learnt how to gradually escape from the framework and separate the frontend. Janko Marohnic commented on that and I thought it would be nice to reply here, as the reply covers the distinction between an MVP and a prototype.

Your Guide to Healthy SEO

Viget - 12 February 2016

Search drives the web -- roughly two-thirds of website visitors originate from organic search. This search traffic represents a tremendous opportunity to present your product or service to customers who are actively looking for a solution to a problem or an answer to a question. This highly motivated behavior means that search is often a website's highest converting source of traffic.

Heroku Pipelines Emerges from Beta

Heroku - 11 February 2016

Today is a big day for Heroku Pipelines — our continuous delivery feature that provides a visual sequence of app environments in which to test, stage, and deliver code through to production. Pipelines is now released for General Availability (GA).

Comparing Rails and Phoenix: Part I

Codeship - 11 February 2016

As I was thinking about this article a few weeks ago, I was excited when I saw that Chris McCord, creator of the Phoenix Framework in Elixir, was on the Elixir Fountain podcast. One of the things they mentioned on the show was that they were tired of the comparison being made between Rails and […]

Dress Up Your Git Diffs With Word-level Highlights

Viget - 11 February 2016

Oh, hey. I didn’t see you there. How’s it going? You look nice today.

Quick Tip: Add ReCAPTCHA to Your Rails Application

SitePoint - 11 February 2016

ReCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse. A "CAPTCHA" is a test to tell humans and robot apart. This kind of service is important for websites or web applications with lots of user generated content. The test is easy for a human to solve, but hard for bots and other malicious software to figure out.

Selenium Design Patterns

Sause Labs - 11 February 2016

In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. A design pattern is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations.1)“Software design […]