Aug
[This is an excerpt from an email I answered on the Rails-Talk list today] That's actually pretty hard, but with a bit of work you will be able to pull that off. You have two basic strategies: 1) Make the user upload the image file somewhere else (like...
Read MoreJust don't do it. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10727002/jquery-document-ready-fires-twice...
Read MoreIf you haven't worked with JSON endpoints and/or Active Model Serializer much there's some specific nuances to keep in mind when adding rails-api/active_model_serializers to your project. In the old days, our JSON output typically looked like this: [ { "title": "Post 1", "body": "Hello!" }, { "title": "Post...
Read MoreGenerally programmer wisdom is to "stay current" with the latest versions of working software. However, this is not always feasible. today I spent some time today discovering that that ember-cli, Node, and NPM are, shall we say, under active development (to put it politely) so much...
Read MoreJun
An anti-pattern is a set of practices or habits (in the context of computer programming) that although are common and repeated are ultimately unhelpful or detrimental. Why anti-patterns form is beyond the scope of this blog post, but today I'd like to explore some practices...
Read MoreOne of the often under appreciated situations in web development today are thing inherent to the process that create blockers inefficiencies when a developer is doing his or her day-to-day work. I am firm believer that inefficiencies are in fact blockers. and you should work hard to eliminate them. Although this might be difficult for ‘the business’ (managers, stakeholders) to understand, these things should be treated with the same importance as a “blocker” that you might bring up at stand-up. Failure to treat inefficiencies compound the problem, eventually leading to waste. Here are 9 things that make teams slow, and what you should do to address them on your team.
Debugging Javascript in Capybara feature specs can be challenging (to say the least), because AFAIK you can't drop 'debugger' into your javascript and run the code and be debugging in Chrome. However, I learned today you can do a little fancy footwork to be able...
Read MoreI just discovered something relatively simply that eluded me since the very start of my career in Rails. You’re working on several branches, migrating between them sometimes having to run a db migration. Sometimes you or a colleague writes a non-forward compatible migration, making the code on master (for example) unable to be run against a later migration that happened in a different branch.
An important gotcha of some HTML5 semantic web stuff: An input of type="number" attribute on an input and discovered that Safari 5 and IE would re-format the number the way you learned to in grade school if your number is greater than 999 (i.e., adding commas...
Read MoreDec
What you may miss off-the-bat is that Heroku's copy of your app is actually a git repository. It's like github's repository of your code, but it is used for the special purpose of deploying the app. When you do a deploy to Heroku, you are...
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