Notes - Raving Genius

Modern Web Notes

Modern Web Variety Show 2017-01-24 by Tracy Lee (twitter [https://twitter.com/ladyleet]) (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/trianglemodernweb/events/235966025/]) Moe Long - Keynote JavaScript testing sucks. Mocha and Jasmine are okay-ish. Dan Wilson - Building Native With Angular NativeScript [https://www.nativescript.org/] and npm install nativescript Write

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 [http://brandonmathis.me/] (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/236355556/]) History Rails 1 Rails 2 * Tiobe language popularity ranking [http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/] * EnvyLabs "commercials" * They did a whole series of "Rails Versus xxx", which might

Triangle.js

Triangle.js Notes - React With Typescript

React With Typescript 2016-11-16 with Doug Miller [http://www.douglasallenmiller.com/] (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Triangle-JavaScript/events/235486369/]) (slides [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12MI2CzetTwN5bx-Tq2t5UVUZCiug8OpFJQvUAJT3kpg] ) Static Typing Options For JavaScript * TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] - Microsoft * flow [https://flowtype.org/] - Facebook Advantages And Disadvantages pros * better

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Triangle Front End Notes - CSS Layout Techniques

CSS Layout Techniques 2016-11-03 by Bermon Painter [http://bermonpainter.com/] (Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Triangle-Front-End-Developers/events/234560049/]) ( Twitter [https://twitter.com/bermonpainter]) 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

JavaScript

Triangle Modern Web - Variety Show

Modern Web [http://www.modern-web.org/] Variety Show 2016-10-24 by Tracy Lee [https://www.thisdotmedia.com/] (Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/trianglemodernweb/events/234226919/]) (Twitter [https://twitter.com/ladyleet]) The inaugural meeting in the Triangle featured free food and several excellent speakers. MetLife [https://www.metlife.com/] hosted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon

Ruby

Triangle.rb Notes - Ten Gems To Know About

Ten Gems To Know About 2016-07-12 by Brandon Mathis [http://brandonmathis.me/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/]) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. pry [https://rubygems.org/gems/pry] 1. pry-byebug [https://rubygems.org/gems/pry-byebug] (also byebug [https://rubygems.org/gems/byebug]) 2. awesome_print [https://rubygems.org/gems/awesome_

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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 ; similar to

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

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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/

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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 * Where am

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/

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

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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 of Closure * Better concurrency

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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 [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 picture doesn't really do

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)

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

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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 baked in * Obfuscation baked in

Triangle.rb

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 S3 and

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 * take

Ruby

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 to start building on the 400th floor, instead of the 5th

Ruby

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 worst thing on the

Triangle.rb

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 parallel execution * recursive

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 api Not Express * configuration over code * explicit methods over