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JavaScript Prototype Functions

AKA "instance methods"! Constructor functions (any function you call with new) in JavaScript have a prototype property, which you can decorate with functions and other arbitrary values. When instantiating an object, these functions become instance methods. When calling a "method" (for instance foo.bar()), JavaScript will

Node

npm And Global Packages

Using a Node module that provides an CLI presents some challenges, especially to newcomers. Below is a discussion of some approaches and some pros/cons. Global Only Just install globally and don't worry about local installs. It will be easy to run the commands (no prefixes!), but you&

Health Insurance

Dear BCBSNC

Blue Cross; I'm writing to give you some feedback based on my personal experience from today. I have bronchitis, and like the past few evenings, tonight I will (likely) be kept from sleep due to coughing all night. I've finally had enough, so I went to

Current Status

Vivian Is Fabulous This Morning

Ruby

Fun With Ruby Enumerators

Yesterday evening for fun I decided to write a factorial method in Ruby. My first attempt looked like this. 5.times.inject(&:*) This is a really elegant solution, and it almost works, but Fixnum#times starts counting at 0. Normally this isn't an issue since n.times

Festival

International Festival 2015

This weekend saw the 30th annual International Festival [http://www.internationalfocusnc.org/festival]. I went before in 2012 and 2013, so yesterday (Saturday) was my third time. As usual we had a great time and sampled many food items. 0. Brazil - pão de queijo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Triangle.rb

Triangle.rb Notes - Rubyist Guide To Functional Programming With Clojure

Rubyist Guide To Functional Programming With Clojure [http://clojure.org/] 2015-09-08 by Michael Stalker [https://twitter.com/michaelstalker] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224748250/]) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Clojure? Created by Rich Hickey in 2007 ; a comment ; no single quoted strings please "double quoted strings" ; numbers 42

Programming

Functions Versus Methods

When I first started programming, I remember encountering functions and methods. I was familiar with functions from high school algebra, but I had no idea what a method was. They looked similar to functions, and online comments indicated they were essentially interchangeable. When you are getting started, you can think

Programming

Triangle.rb Notes - Nothing Is Something

http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/ 2015-08-11 by Sandi Metz [http://www.sandimetz.com/] (video of the same talk at RailsConf [http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2015-nothing-is-something]) * Smalltalk infected * Condition adverse * Message sending * Abstraction seeking Bunch of code slides here... Ruby has special syntax for booleans Conditions breed! Null Object

Programming

Java Makes It Safe To Assume The Worst

Today I started getting strange errors whenever I added a dependency to our Android app. The dependencies installed without issue and the project would even build. However attempting to run the project failed with a :dexDebug error. ``` com.android.dex.DexIndexOverflowException: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536 Error:Execution

Continuity Errors - Beauty And The Beast

Beaty And The Beast (animated) is one of my favorite Disney movies, but it is not without fault.

Notes

Triangle JavaScript Notes - ES6

ES6 2015-05-20 by Josh Bielick [http://joshbielick.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-JavaScript/events/221870241/]) ... We can only hope to make reliable those things in which we understand. - Rich Hickey

JavaScript

Triangle.rb Notes - React

These notes where originally started at the Stacked meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Stacked/events/221981094/], but never published due to being incomplete. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- React [https://facebook.github.io/react/] And Flux [https://facebook.github.io/flux/] 2015-05-12 by Nate Hunzaker [http://natehunzaker.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/

Notes

Stacked Notes - Usability

Usability 2015-05-05 by Graham Langdon [https://twitter.com/GrahamLangdon] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Stacked/events/221981094/]) User Testing * Set small goals that you can achieve * Earlier fixes cost less * Use feedback to prioritize Invalid Reasons To Skip * App isn't finished yet * We already know there are problems

Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Code Katas

Code Katas: Growing Through Deliberate Practice 2015-04-14 by Cory Foy [http://blog.coryfoy.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/221443562/]) (blog post [http://blog.coryfoy.com/2015/04/slides-and-code-kata-recording-from-triangle-rb/] ) Takeaways * Test First * Simple Solution * Judicious Refactoring * Elegance Emerged Four Rules Of Simple Design [http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/2009/

Programming

Line Limits

(In response to http://www.aaron-gray.com/line-limits/. Aaron is a great guy; let the reader visit his blog and learn from his wisdom.) Yesterday after work I said that hard character line limits (often eighty characters, but not always) were a antiquated relic of the past. This was in

Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - RSpec

Develop An RSpec Test Suite (Choose Your Own Test Adventure) 2015-02-10 by Michael Stalker [https://twitter.com/michaelstalker] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/220007543/]) Tests should not be an excuse for thinking. Rich Hickey Things Turn Confusing * tests interact with database? * et cetera... Dragons * never-ending tests * excessive setup

Notes

Stacked Notes - Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks 2014-11-24 (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Stacked/events/216384552/]) Please excuse the likely typos in presenter's names. I didn't have much time to capture them. Jarrod Swart [http://jarrodswart.com/] - Functional Programming With Closure [http://jarrodswart.com/articles/clojure-learning-resources] * Durham is the capital

Rant

Upgrading To Yosemite

I upgraded to OS X 10.10 Yosemite last weekend (from Mavericks). It was one of the top three most painful upgrade/install experiences I've ever had. (I don't recall the other two specifically, but I'll grant that this may not be the worst.

Rant

Angry Birds Pause Screens

Rovio, Why did you rearrange the pause menu for Angry Birds Stella? When I play, I end up restarting each level many times to get the angles just right. This wouldn't be an issue if each game had its own layout. It even would be less of an

Notes

Stacked Notes - Bourbon And Meteor

Tonight's meetup consisted of two separate talks. The meeting started with a delicious snack I've never had before: Pork Puppies [http://porkpuppies.com/]. ![partially eaten pork puppy](/content/images/2014/10/IMG_20141021_192831_CROPPED-1.jpeg)A pork puppy is a hushpuppy filled with BBQ. This

Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Ember

Introduction To Ember.js [http://emberjs.com/] 2014-07-08 by Jason Draper [https://twitter.com/drapergeek] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/201863062/]) What is Ember? * A framework for building ambitious web applications * Opinionated - convention over configuration * Most (all?) web apps have the same problems * Separation of logic (view)

Programming

Declaratively toggle class names

<div data-dyna-context="window.app" data-dyna-as="foo"> <span data-dyna-class="{ hightlight: this.bar(), colors: length > 1 }"></span> <div data-dyna-context="foo.bar().baz"> <span data-dyna-class="{ hightlight: foo.bar() }"></span> <

Funny

Hilarious Drunk Animals

Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Establishing Yourself

Establishing Yourself: A gem/application-driven method of building experience 2014-07-08 by Nathan Walls [http://wallscorp.us/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/191110132/]) Why? * avoid stagnation * job or portfolio seeking * keep skills fresh by working on things/problems not addressed by daily work Portfolio * writing is a good exercise