Notes - Raving Genius

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 nativescript Write truly native apps with JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular. tns create - Telerik NativeScript CLI tool. This

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 "Rails Versus xxx", which might be hard to find now. Here's Rails Versus PHP _why the

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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 members faster refactor without anxiety faster development time cons project setup is more tedious typings certain flows

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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 was floats with .clearfix. This improved with psuedo-selectors, but was still not ideal. Flexbox & Grid (Not

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/PhoneGap (Twitter) (slides) PhoneGap is a polyfill, and the ultimate purpose of PhoneGap is to cease to

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 of irb. (Or just type pry into the terminal instead of irb.) awesome_print Colorizes Ruby's built-in

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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" ; numbers 42 ; similar to symbols in ruby. see http://clojure.org/special_forms :keyword ; map {:key 42}

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 special syntax for booleans Conditions breed! Null Object Pattern - "Active Nothing" Prefer knowing object

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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

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 of past experience. Don't reinvent the wheel each time you need a car. We can only hope

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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 know there are problems Where am I going to find participants? Just Do It Minimum 3-5 people

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 Expresses developer intent Minimizes number of classes and methods We have become afraid of what will happen

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 cetera... Dragons never-ending tests excessive setup fragile tests hard to write intermittent failures tests stay broken Why?

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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 Better concurrency Learn something new Book - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Functional programming is programming

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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) A pork puppy is a hushpuppy filled with BBQ. This picture doesn't really do it justice, so

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 of logic (view) from template Templates are autoloaded based on name DOM manipulation belongs in the view

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 work Portfolio writing is a good exercise to clarify thinking blogging helps build community awareness stand out

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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 Obfuscation baked in (cssmin and uglify) jshint Social baked in (Passport) Fully functional frontend and backend example

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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 and creates an SQS message with file path System autoscales based on total messages in SQS each

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 next level new different challenges personal growth driver's seat impact on others new perspective What makes a

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". - "If you don't buy this book, you're a racist." Front-End: Fun, Not Frustration

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 the 5th floor. By persistently building on top of abstractions, we can get much higher. Tricks That

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 can make anything fast if it doesn't work. Ultra Light and Maintainable Rails Wizards Andy Maleh http:

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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 tail recursion optimization Patter Matching assignment different versions of the same function case statement gaurd clause if/

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 over middleware Routes Route Prerequisites like angular's resolve (maybe, but nobody knew angular) Request Lifecycle set extension