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Triangle.rb Notes - JRuby

JRuby [http://www.jruby.org/] 2014-06-10 by Brandon Mathis [http://brandonmathis.me/] and Hiro Asari [https://twitter.com/hiro_asari] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/184367522/]) Why? * Access to Java libraries * True concurrency (Rubinius [http://rubini.us/] also offers this) * JVM Access To Java Libraries * Super

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TriAngular Notes - MEAN Stack

Angular And The MEAN [http://mean.io/] Stack 2014-05-22 by Darrough West [http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/][1] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-Angular-js/events/141332642/]) [1] Another gentleman co-presented, but I never caught his name. MEAN * Package management (npm and bower) * Task manager (grunt) * Testing

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Triangle.rb Notes - AWS

Bring AWS [https://aws.amazon.com/] To Its Knees 2014-05-13 by Robbie Allen [http://www.automatedinsights.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/176033012/]) Automated Story Writing * Combines writing and programming skills * Making millions of articles not sound automated is difficult Workflow 0. Client uploads data to

Ruby

RailsConf 2014 - Day 4

Part 4 of 4 [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Be a Boss without the B-S [http://www.railsconf.com/program#prop_197] Jessie Link (Twitter [https://twitter.com/mad_typis]) https://speakerdeck.com/madtypist https://github.com/madtypist Why you should consider management

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RailsConf 2014 - Day 3

Part 3 of 4 [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Baratunde Thurston (Twitter [https://twitter.com/baratunde], Company Twitter [https://twitter.com/cultivatedwit]) http://www.cultivatedwit.com/ http://fuckyoucongress.com/ http://bit.ly/rubytunde Another fantastic keynote to watch again. Wrote "How To Be Black&

Ruby

RailsConf 2014 - Day 2

Part 2 of 4 [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote: Cognitive Depletion (ConFreaks [http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3336-railsconf-keynote-what-happens-to-everyone-when-everyone-learns-to-code] ) Yehuda Katz (@wycats) Set defaults to combat cognitive depletion. Abstractions are leaky, but they allow one

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RailsConf 2014 - Day 1

Part 1 of 4 [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote: Writing Software (ConFreaks [http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3315-railsconf-keynote]) David Heinemeier Hansson (Twitter [https://twitter.com/dhh]) Stop writing knee-jerk tests. Test-first development naturally leads to dependency injection. Dependency injection is the

Ruby

RailsConf 2014

I've posted all the notes I took from each session. I'll add a link to each talk on Confreaks as they become available. 0. Day One Notes [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/2014/04/22/railsconf-2014-day-1/] 1. Day Two Notes [https://blog.ravinggenius.com/

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Triangle.rb Notes - Elixir

Elixir [http://elixir-lang.org/]: Your Next Addiction 2014-04-08 by Daniel Farrell [http://danielfarrell.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/174714142/]) Sample code [https://github.com/danielfarrell/stalkme] from talk is on Github. Functional Programming * programming == data transformation * first class functions * immutable data * allows for massively

JavaScript

Triangle Node - Introduction To Hapi

Intro To Hapi [http://hapijs.com/] 2014-03-18 by Ben Wheeler and Brian Marks [https://twitter.com/brianpmarks] ( Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/triangle-nodejs/events/169773332/]) (speaker notes [https://node.trinket.io/intro-to-the-hapi-framework/triangle-node-js]) What * alternative to express * originally built for mobile

Ruby

Today I was in a Pry [http://pryrepl.org/] session, and I wanted to visualize something with Awesome Print [https://rubygems.org/gems/awesome_print]. I didn't have Awesome Print installed in the version of Ruby I was using, so requiring it wasn't possible. However Ruby

Programming

AngularJS Thoughts

I've been working on my first AngularJS [http://angularjs.org/] project since October. It has some strangeness, but on the whole I am impressed. Pros * Single language. I normally work with Ruby on Rails [http://rubyonrails.org/] , which means some JavaScript is inevitable. Now I'm writing

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Triangle.rb Notes - Deliberate Git

Deliberate Git 2013-08-13 by Stephen Ball [http://rakeroutes.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/131887242/]) (blog post [http://rakeroutes.com/blog/deliberate-git/]) Git Commits * last forever * extremely searchable * available to everyone Commit messages have a short, imperitive subject, followed by a longer description about why.

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Triangle.rb Notes - The Rails View

The Rails View: The Junk Drawer Grows Up 2013-01-08 by John Athayde [http://www.boboroshi.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/96974032/]) http://www.therailsview.com/ https://speakerdeck.com/boboroshi/the-rails-view-the-junk-drawer-grows-up-triangle-dot-rb-version

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Node Resources

I haven't really keep this page updated, so take these links with a grain of salt so to speak. In fact this page should really be viewed as a historic document, and *not* as a useful reference.

Package Management In OSX

Package management in macOS is non-existent. Every[1] little Linux distro manages to maintain a package repository, but somehow Apple can't? The best I've come across is Homebrew [https://brew.sh/]. Apple does provide an App Store, but it only carries a limited selection of

Triangle.rb Notes - Design, Behavior, Development

Design, Behavior, Development 2012-11-13 by Caleb Wright [https://twitter.com/calebwright] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/87139422/]) We are builders, not designer or developers * Humans like to compare * we think we're good at it... * but we're not (apples vs oranges versus apples

Triangle.rb Notes - Metaprogramming Ruby

Metaprogramming Ruby 2012-10-09 by Joseph Jaber [http://www.josephjaber.com/] and Michael Stalker [https://twitter.com/michaelstalker] What metaprogramming is * "Metaprogramming is writing code that manipulates language constructs at runtime" * "[Much] of the metaprogramming I see is either wrong or has an equivalent that'

API Integration Testing

Different approaches to integration testing API interactions. Use real API Test against an offsite, client-maintained, sandboxed API. Pros * testing against a real api can provide better feeback from tests * always stays in sync (hopefully) * least amount of work to setup Cons * api changes can break your tests, even without

OSX Mountain Lion

I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion a bit ago, and in some ways it feels like a big step backwards. Below are some issues I have noticed after upgrading that I do not recall in Lion. Slow resume time Wake-up login screen So this is driving me

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Pink() Notes - Breakpoint

Breakpoint [https://github.com/lesjames/Breakpoint] 2012-08-02 by Les James [http://lesjames.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/functionpink/events/73200242/]) Pain Points * Fluid Layouts * Floats * Media Queries * Internet Explorer * something else was mentioned here... * Additional Markup * Grid Complexity * Many Different Resolutions * Print * Teams Breakpoint Philosophies * fluid and

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TriangleJS Notes - Graph Database

Graph Database 2012-07-24 by Josh Adell [http://blog.everymansoftware.com/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-JavaScript/events/65074792/]) "Data are from Mars, RDBMs are from Venus." Non-relational Databases CouchDB Cassandra redis MondoDB riak Graph Databases OrientDB Neo4J Flock (Twitter) others... Graphs are everywhere: * street

Finding, Installing And Maintaining Software

I have been extremely underwhelmed by the software install process. Mostly it seems to be a game of seek and find, but one I never wanted to play. There are no less then three "sources" I have to check to find software: App Store, Internet, Homebrew. App Store

MacBook Pro With Retina Display (MBPr)

When the new MacBook Pros were released, I bought one with the retina display. I have a variety of reasons, but for now I want to capture some of my first impressions. I have used Linux (usually Ubuntu [http://www.ubuntu.com/]) at home exclusively for the last sevenish years.

Templating Ideas

* simple dom snippets (%haml or slim or jade are nice) * true dom manipulation using simple api * dom renders with zero extra spaces. no indentation or newlines * dom renders attributes with expanded booleans, all values double-quoted, self-closing tags closed * easily render a snippet from full dom for ajax requests