Sitemaps on an External S3 Bucket using an Asset Subdomain for 2022
it is still possible to host your sitemap on external S3 buckets. You must set up a subdomain of your domain pointed as an Alternative Domain Name for your CloudFront distribution, and in order to do this you must go through domain verification with AWS.
React Native Meetup 2021-12-01 (@Yext Building, 61 Ninth Ave, NYC)
At this time in early December, the sun sets in New York around 5:30 PM, the streets of Manhattan are still very sparsely populated although...
3 Videos about Agile and Beyond
Kevlin Henney, Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers (ITT 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHMHukIlJY James Coplien, The Dehumanisation of Agile and Objects (GPTP 2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBQmIDdls4 Kent Beck,...
Why You Need a Special DNS Provider on Heroku
Heroku is a robust leader in 12-factor deployment strategies. It is a large and feature-rich platform. You can deploy your app knowing that you are...
Fix for RVM (Ruby Version Manager ) running on macOS Big Sur
What is RVM Big Sur? RVM stands for Ruby Version Manager and is a tool used by Ruby developers to switch between different versions of...
Same Time, Same Desk: Rails Conference and React Summit
Last week in a virtual chat room at the React Summit Kent C. Dodds was asked an interesting question: What does he think of Rails?...
The WFHpocalpyse Part 3: Remote Work One Year Later
Remote work was here to stay, or was it? In 2020 we explored how it was work remotely, but the shift is probably short lived in corporate America, where “face-time” gives people who show up an advantage.
The How and Why of End-to-End Testing
Tested codebases are the most signficiant development from Rails and Agile over the last 15 years. End-to-end testing, in particular, is the defining reason why Agile and Rails have been so successful. Not writing tests should be seen as akin to malpractice in software development. Hiring someone to write untested code should be outlawed.