Standup NY 7-19-2012
Interestings automated deploys with jenkins TL;DR: exec ssh-agent ./path/to/your/build/script We setup our ci server to deploy (via capistrano) our app to an “acceptance” environment after a successful...
View ArticleNYC Standup 7/25/2012 – Phone Gap
Interestings PhoneGap 2.0 released - supposed to be easier for devs? Mountain Lion's out today Chrome 21 supports drag & dropping of FOLDERS onto a web page Continue reading →The post NYC Standup...
View ArticleCleaning old branches
We're using Github pull requests on our project. Which means whenever a pull request is accepted, a branch is left lying around. So I wrote a quick script to remove all remote branches that have been...
View Article[NY] Thursday Standup
Interestings Tenderlove explains YAML exploits Tenderlove explains YAML exploits in great detail, and with his usual panache http://tenderlovemaking.com/2013/02/06/yaml-f7u12.html The post [NY]...
View ArticleAll evidence points to OOP being bullshit
This is the second part in a series I’m writing about lessons that can be learned from functional programming. Find the first part here. Object Oriented Programming (OOP) as an idea has been oversold....
View ArticleStart small and compose: A strategy for using FactoryGirl
While I’m still not entirely sold on FactoryGirl, I often see it being used in a particularly lazy way. Imagine your basic factory: factory :project Before long you’re adding relations to projects, and...
View ArticleStop building products – David Edwards
pivotallabs on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free Good developers know about abstractions, and that choosing the right abstraction is vital to writing good code. But great developers (and product...
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