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by justinweiss 12y ago
Hey! I actually posted a short snippet from the testing chapter to the blog yesterday: http://www.justinweiss.com/blog/2014/10/20/writing-better-te... That snippet is just a page or two, but should be a
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by justinweiss 12y ago
I just opened up beta book sales today! If you'd like to learn more about the reason behind the book, you can read more here: http://www.justinweiss.com/blog/2014/10/21/learn-rails-witho... And I&#x
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Show HN: Practicing Rails: Learn Rails without being overwhelmed(justinweiss.com)
11 points by justinweiss 12y ago|6 comments
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A Package in a league of its own: Helm(tuhdo.github.io)
29 points by justinweiss 12y ago|2 comments
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by justinweiss 12y ago
FYI, if you're using Twilio: https://twitter.com/twilio/status/522446663130963969 "If you are encountering trouble with inbound Twilio requests while mitigating the SSLv3 vuln, contact help@twilio.com fo
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How does Rails handle gems?(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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How do gems work?(justinweiss.com)
7 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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Rails 5, Module#prepend, and the end of alias_method_chain(justinweiss.com)
2 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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The lesser-known features in Rails 4.2(justinweiss.com)
3 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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Rails internationalization: 3 quick tips and 1 crazy abuse(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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by justinweiss 12y ago
Two main things: * Bad estimates. When people are too aggressive with their estimates and miss them, it derails everyone that was depending on that team's stuff being done at a particular time. It causes blockages that cost way more th
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Where are all the intermediate Rails resources?(justinweiss.com)
6 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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You're probably doing it wrong(alexparker.me)
28 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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Shaking off your TDD fatigue(justinweiss.com)
4 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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by justinweiss 12y ago
Avvo is hiring web developers in Seattle, WA! Feel free to contact me directly: jweiss@avvo.com, and let me know you came from HN. We're looking for a Web application developer to help shape the way people connect with the lawyers who
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4 simple memoization patterns in Ruby (and one gem)(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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by justinweiss 12y ago
After a few years of Java and C# (especially in finance) I came really close to leaving the software industry altogether. Ruby, and then Rails, brought me back into it. They returned the joy and excitement I felt when I first got that ASCII
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Tips for finding Rails blogs at your level(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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When is an ActiveRecord model too fat?(justinweiss.com)
6 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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Should you still learn TDD?(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 12y ago|0 comments
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A guide to choosing the best gems for your Ruby project(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 13y ago|0 comments
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Scalding 0.9: Get it while it’s hot(blog.twitter.com)
1 points by justinweiss 13y ago|0 comments
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Debug a stuck cache with a simple code change(justinweiss.com)
2 points by justinweiss 13y ago|0 comments
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How to improve your software design with code that feels wrong(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 13y ago|0 comments
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3 ways to start your ambitious Rails project(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 13y ago|0 comments
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Testing network services in Ruby is easier than you think(justinweiss.com)
1 points by justinweiss 13y ago|0 comments
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by justinweiss 13y ago
When I was still at MS, a lot of these kind of bugs didn't get fixed -- the code checking against the old (smaller) path size would often not be owned by anyone anymore, and nobody wanted to touch it (because that would make them the n
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NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal(guardian.co.uk)
22 points by justinweiss 13y ago|3 comments
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by justinweiss 14y ago
I've seen this problem when using @font-face generators that remove font hinting to save space. Last time I used FontSquirrel's generator, I had to specifically unset the option to remove hinting in order to get the fonts to look right on C
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First screenshots of Textastic for Mac(twitter.com)
4 points by justinweiss 14y ago|0 comments

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