Justin Weiss posted a great article on how you can add quick and easy filtering for Rails models without bloating your controllers or models beyond adding scopes here
Easy search and filtering in Rails
21 Feb 2014
Entries tagged: development
Sourcegraph ditches AngularJS
18 Feb 2014
Quinn Slack shares his team’s experience with AngularJS…
oh-my-zsh t-shirts now available
13 Dec 2013
If you’re a fan of my open source project, oh-my-zsh, we have t-shirts available in the online store. Enjoy!
The UK Government discusses technical debt
10 Dec 2013
Worthwhile read on how technical debt can slow down velocity on a project.
Obama encourages you to learn to code
9 Dec 2013
Just do it. The leader of the free world said so.
A chat with Ken Stowell - local Javascript expert from Metal Toad
7 Oct 2013
I’ve been scouring the internet to find some folks in our fair city of Portland, OR who are willing to talk about their developer experience.
I was lucky enough to connect with Ken Stowell of Metal Toad Media. Metal Toad Media has an agency here in Portland as well as L.A. and San Francisco.
Ken lives here with us in Portland and was happy to answer my questions. I was hoping to learn a little more about Javascript developers and how developer interns like me could find our way into the industry.
Interview with our 14 year old Ruby on Rails intern
27 Aug 2013
14 year old, James Anderson, Ruby wiz spent a few weeks in Planet Argon’s studio this summer. Upon completion of his assignment, we asked him a few questions.
Exploring Tools of the Front-End Developer
5 Aug 2013
In the past month and a half of interning here I’ve made the role switch from Designer to Front End Developer. It’s been a really fun and rewarding process. I wanted to go over some of the new tools I’ve been learning about that have really changed my life for the better.
Is it worth the complexity?
24 Jun 2013
Kris Gale of Yammer talks about the costs of introducing complexity into your application.
While I agree with many points, i do worry that sometimes there is too much of a disconnect between Engineers and the Product Owners. If you’re in the position of asking someone to build something… are you explaining why it needs to be built?
If you’re the person being asked to build something… are you asking why?