Integrating Travis CI in your Github project etc.

In this tutorial, I am providing steps to integrate Travis CI into your public Ruby on Rails Github repository.

Is your team setup for success? Do they have the tools to deliver working software? Step zero is being able to get setup quickly.

Testing is a double-edged sword. On one hand, having a solid test suite makes code easier to refactor, and gives confidence that it works the way it should. On the other hand, tests must be written and maintained. They have a cost, like any other code.

At the start of each new year, after the festive season and the time catching up with friends and family, we likely have more free time than we do throughout the rest of the year. And if you and I are anything alike, this means that you have the opportunity to indulge in your passion […]

In today’s pomodoro, I step through a series of actions I want to automate. In the process, I write a live, executable notebook of shell commands using Emacs Org-Mode.

You probably know how to ask Ruby to rescue specific exceptions. But how does Ruby know if a particular exception meets your criteria? In this article, we'll walk through Ruby's simple exception matching mechanism and see how we can use it to our advantage.

Maybe, if you are working on a small project and your team consists of just one member and that's you. But even then you won't be there to maintain that little project of yours forever. If someday, someone walks in and tries to understand how it all works in order to implement another feature or fix a bug, it might take much much longer to just get started. Besides, we all know that lost feeling when we encounter a large, undocumented code base and try to fix a bug. "Code as documentation" doesn't always (or ever?) work.

I wanted to play around with some array manipulations in JavaScript and for whatever reason when the latest issue of Frontend Focus came into my inbox one of my first thoughts was, I wonder how many words long the top articles end up being.

It’s about time for something new. What follows is the introduction to our next book The Calm Company. We’re working on it now, and will be shopping to publishers soon for publication later this year…