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Modern Web

Modern Web Notes

Modern Web Variety Show 2017-01-24 by Tracy Lee (twitter) (meetup) Moe Long - Keynote JavaScript testing sucks. Mocha and Jasmine are okay-ish. Dan Wilson - Building Native With Angular NativeScript and npm install

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Things To Look Out For In Rails 5

Things To Look Out For In Rails 5 2017-01-10 with Brandon Mathis (meetup) History Rails 1 Rails 2 Tiobe language popularity ranking EnvyLabs "commercials" They did a whole series of "

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Triangle.js

Triangle.js Notes - React With Typescript

React With Typescript 2016-11-16 with Doug Miller (meetup) (slides) Static Typing Options For JavaScript TypeScript - Microsoft flow - Facebook Advantages And Disadvantages pros better tooling find errors earlier ramp up new team

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Notes

Triangle Front End Notes - CSS Layout Techniques

CSS Layout Techniques 2016-11-03 by Bermon Painter (Meetup) (Twitter) Hardest problem on web... Horizontally and vertically centered box. body { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } .box { height: 100px; width: 100px; } Previous best solution

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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JavaScript

Triangle Modern Web - Variety Show

Modern Web Variety Show 2016-10-24 by Tracy Lee (Meetup) (Twitter) The inaugural meeting in the Triangle featured free food and several excellent speakers. MetLife hosted. Simon MacDonald - What's New With Apache Cordova/

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Ten Gems To Know About

Ten Gems To Know About 2016-07-12 by Brandon Mathis (Meetup) pry pry-byebug (also byebug) awesome_print quiet_assets faker letter_opener rubocop brakeman taperole flamegraph pry Edit ~/.ircrb to automatically use pry instead

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Triangle.rb

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

Rubyist Guide To Functional Programming With Clojure 2015-09-08 by Michael Stalker (Meetup) What is Clojure? Created by Rich Hickey in 2007 ; a comment ; no single quoted strings please "double quoted strings"

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Programming

Triangle.rb Notes - Nothing Is Something

http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/ 2015-08-11 by Sandi Metz (video of the same talk at RailsConf) Smalltalk infected Condition adverse Message sending Abstraction seeking Bunch of code slides here... Ruby has

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Notes

Triangle JavaScript Notes - ES6

ES6 2015-05-20 by Josh Bielick (Meetup) ... We can only hope to make reliable those things in which we understand. - Rich Hickey

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    Thomas Ingram
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JavaScript

Triangle.rb Notes - React

These notes where originally started at the Stacked meetup, but never published due to being incomplete. React And Flux 2015-05-12 by Nate Hunzaker (Meetup) (Slides) Frameworks Good frameworks build on the good ideas

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Notes

Stacked Notes - Usability

Usability 2015-05-05 by Graham Langdon (Meetup) 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

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Code Katas

Code Katas: Growing Through Deliberate Practice 2015-04-14 by Cory Foy (Meetup) (blog post) Takeaways Test First Simple Solution Judicious Refactoring Elegance Emerged Four Rules Of Simple Design Runs all the tests No duplication

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - RSpec

Develop An RSpec Test Suite (Choose Your Own Test Adventure) 2015-02-10 by Michael Stalker (Meetup) Tests should not be an excuse for thinking. Rich Hickey Things Turn Confusing tests interact with database? et

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    Thomas Ingram
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Notes

Stacked Notes - Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks 2014-11-24 (Meetup) Please excuse the likely typos in presenter's names. I didn't have much time to capture them. Jarrod Swart - Functional Programming With Closure Durham is the capital of Closure

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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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. ![partially eaten pork puppy](/content/images/2014/10/IMG_20141021_192831_CROPPED-1.jpeg)

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Ember

Introduction To Ember.js 2014-07-08 by Jason Draper (Meetup) What is Ember? A framework for building ambitious web applications Opinionated - convention over configuration Most (all?) web apps have the same problems Separation

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Establishing Yourself

Establishing Yourself: A gem/application-driven method of building experience 2014-07-08 by Nathan Walls (Meetup) Why? avoid stagnation job or portfolio seeking keep skills fresh by working on things/problems not addressed by daily

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    Thomas Ingram
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Notes

TriAngular Notes - MEAN Stack

Angular And The MEAN Stack 2014-05-22 by Darrough West[1] (Meetup) [1] Another gentleman co-presented, but I never caught his name. MEAN Package management (npm and bower) Task manager (grunt) Testing baked in

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    Thomas Ingram
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Triangle.rb

Triangle.rb Notes - AWS

Bring AWS To Its Knees 2014-05-13 by Robbie Allen (Meetup) Automated Story Writing Combines writing and programming skills Making millions of articles not sound automated is difficult Workflow Client uploads data to S3

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

RailsConf 2014 - Day 4

Part 4 of 4 How To Be a Boss without the B-S Jessie Link (Twitter) https://speakerdeck.com/madtypist https://github.com/madtypist Why you should consider management take your founded companay to

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
2 min read
Ruby

RailsConf 2014 - Day 3

Part 3 of 4 Keynote Baratunde Thurston (Twitter, Company Twitter) http://www.cultivatedwit.com/ http://fuckyoucongress.com/ http://bit.ly/rubytunde Another fantastic keynote to watch again. Wrote "How To Be Black&

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

RailsConf 2014 - Day 2

Part 2 of 4 Keynote: Cognitive Depletion (ConFreaks) Yehuda Katz (@wycats) Set defaults to combat cognitive depletion. Abstractions are leaky, but they allow one to start building on the 400th floor, instead of

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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Ruby

RailsConf 2014 - Day 1

Part 1 of 4 Keynote: Writing Software (ConFreaks) David Heinemeier Hansson (Twitter) Stop writing knee-jerk tests. Test-first development naturally leads to dependency injection. Dependency injection is the worst thing on the planet. You

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
2 min read
Triangle.rb

Triangle.rb Notes - Elixir

Elixir: Your Next Addiction 2014-04-08 by Daniel Farrell (Meetup) Sample code from talk is on Github. Functional Programming programming == data transformation first class functions immutable data allows for massively parallel execution recursive iteration

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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JavaScript

Triangle Node - Introduction To Hapi

Intro To Hapi 2014-03-18 by Ben Wheeler and Brian Marks (Meetup) (speaker notes) What alternative to express originally built for mobile api Not Express configuration over code explicit methods over settings plugin architecture

  • Thomas Ingram
    Thomas Ingram
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