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From Stimulus to another framework in a Ruby on Rails App
What if a Ruby on Rails application built using Stimulus.js needs to have more complex interactions, as well as a degree of compartmentalization and reusability for specific behaviors and displays?
Multitasking with Cursor: Using Git Worktree for Parallel Branch Development
Modern development workflows often involve running tools like Cursor or Cline to generate or refactor code. However, when you’re waiting for one instance to finish applying changes or suggestions,…
How OpenAI Handles File Storage, Summarization, and Embeddings
OpenAI’s suite of powerful AI models is transforming how we interact with information. Beyond simply generating text, these models now intelligently process and understand external data.
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Building an AI-Powered Product Recommendation System
How we leveraged LlamaIndex, vector databases, and intelligent metadata filtering to create precise product recommendations for veterinary professionals
Exploration Game in Next.js Built with AI
Creating a game with a web application is not common, but some already exist on the internet. Besides the objective of creating a small game, this article also explores the possibilities and…
Chat with Your Data: Integrating PandasAI in Django Admin
Have you ever found yourself needing to analyze your backend data while working on a Django project? It can be a tedious task, often involving diving into SQL tables and crafting complex queries.
Deno Replaces Node?
Most front-end applications are currently using Node.js, which is a proven JavaScript runtime. It allows most developers to create reliable client and server applications.
Integrating GrapesJS with Django
Creating dynamic and customizable web pages is a cornerstone of modern web development. If you’re building a Django application and want to offer a reliable WYSIWYG editor, GrapesJS is a compelling…
Code Splitting a React SPA in Rails
Most Single Page Applications (SPA) that we create using the React.js library start simple, but, over time, they tend to increase in complexity, as we add more and more components with different…
Running Deep Learning Models as Applications with FastAPI
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are the backbone of AI workflows, driving computationally intensive deep learning models such as Pixel2Mesh and TripoSR .
Persisting a Multi-Step Form Using useReducer and react-hooks-form
Imagine you’re building a complex multi-step form for your web application. However, after tweaking the user interface (UI) or adjusting validations, you save, reload, and lose all the progress,…
Kiba ETL from Scratch with SFTP
H ow does raw data become clean and structured information? The answer lies in ETL : Extract, Transform, Load .
Low-Code Data Visualization With Kumu.io
In today’s fast-changing technological world, it is essential to turn data into valuable insights. In the past, this task often fell on software developers who had to find ways for data analysts to…
A Beginner’s Guide To Securing Smart Contracts Using Digital Signature Whitelisting
In decentralized blockchain applications, security is ingrained in the very fabric of the system. After all, smart contracts are digital immutable contracts where every transaction is processed by a…
5 Figma Plug-ins to Improve Productivity
Being part of a team is a big plus — we share our wins and challenges every day. It’s the key to growing, refining how we work, and sparking creativity.
Handshake: ECDH between Ruby on Rails and Web Crypto APIs
T he handshake process plays a pivotal role in establishing a foundation of trust and encryption. One such robust and efficient method is the Elliptic-Curve Diffie-Hellman ( ECDH ) key exchange…
Implementing WebSockets in Ruby on Rails with Action Cable
Modern web applications increasingly demand real-time features, whether it’s for live chat, notifications, or collaborative editing.
Lighthouse Google’s Performance Wizard
Ever wondered how to make your website faster, more accessible, and SEO-friendly with just a few clicks? Meet Lighthouse, Google’s all-in-one audit tool!
GraphQL | A Query Language for Your Rails API— Part 1
GraphQL is one of the many tools developers use to build modular APIs with a unique twist. Instead of following the conventional REST model, where it’s the API developer that decides what data is…
Expo — The New Easy Peasy in React Native Development 🍋
Those who tried development in React Native a couple of years ago know how cumbersome it can be to install applications like Android Studio and Xcode. Expo bypasses all of that.
Django Ninja vs Django Rest Framework
This article compares how Django Ninja ( Ninja ) and Django Rest Framework ( DRF ) are implemented in a Django project, highlighting the differences between schemas and serializers, filters, views,…
Automating a scalable three-tier architecture for AWS using Terraform
Imagine being in charge of setting up the infrastructure to deploy an application for the first time. You will need to create a number of resources, each one with its own set of configurations.
Good practices for communicating between your Rails and React apps
Among the many ways to create Single Page Apps ( SPAs ), one of them usually involves developing a back-end API to provide data and a front-end app that can consume said data and show it to the user.
A JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have
The Stimulus framework is a lightweight JavaScript library designed to enhance existing HTML elements with interactivity. Here’s a breakdown:
Gradual Modularization for Ruby and Rails
Modularization in Ruby on Rails (Rails) is a software design approach that breaks down a large application into smaller, self-contained units called modules.
Langchain, Langchain.rb and RAG-based querying
LangChain is an open-source framework designed to streamline the development of applications that leverage large language models (LLMs).
Leveraging your own data with LLM’s — Experiments, Limitations and Future Improvements
LLMs have been undeniably garnering significant attention in the world of software development. These powerful and versatile models enable the automation and acceleration of a wide variety of Natural…
GitLab CI\CD concerns for a Ruby on Rails API and React Frontend in subfolders same repo
The goal of this blog post is to quickly show how can you define your GitLab steps if your Ruby on Rails application is inside of a subfolder and not accessible from the root of a repository.
Ruby on Rails CI\CD with GitLab
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape and here at Runtime Revolution , delivering high-quality applications with speed and efficiency is crucial.
Bitbucket Pipelines CI\CD concerns for a Ruby on Rails API and React Frontend in subfolders same repo
The goal of this blog post is to quickly show how can you define your Bitbucket Pipelines if your Ruby on Rails application is inside of a subfolder and not accessible from the root of a repository.
Ruby on Rails CI\CD with Bitbucket Pipelines
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape and here at Runtime Revolution , delivering high-quality applications with speed and efficiency is crucial.
GitHub Actions CI\CD concerns for a Ruby on Rails API and React Frontend in subfolders same repo
The goal of this blog post is to quickly show how can you define your Github Actions if your Ruby on Rails application is inside of a subfolder and not accessible from the root of a repository.
Ruby on Rails CI\CD with GitHub Actions
In today’s fast-paced software development landscape and here at Runtime Revolution , delivering high-quality applications with speed and efficiency is crucial.
Rails Modular API with Engines
In this blog post, we will explore the world of Ruby on Rails APIs and discuss how to build modular APIs using Rails Engines.
React Google Chrome Extension for beginners (or not!) — Part I
React is a popular javascript library, presenting several technical advantages .
How to use Prettier to lint Ruby files
When it comes to maintaining clean and consistent code in Ruby on Rails applications, proper linting is crucial. Prettier is a popular code formatter that can be used to enforce consistent code style…
Self-Organizing Maps on Ruby-on-Rails (with Pycall)
Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), also know as Kohonen Networks, in honor of its creator, Teuvo Kohonen, are an extremely popular data visualization technique used in many areas like fraud detection, trade…
Pull Request AI
Pull request descriptions are an important part of the software development workflow, but writing descriptions for pull requests can be a time-consuming and error-prone process, particularly when…
Setting up a React components library in TypeScript with CSS Modules
By now you’ve most likely heard of frameworks such as Bootstrap , Material-UI or Tailwind CSS , among many others. These frameworks are usually easy to use, and offer some of the most accessible…
Klaviyo — Email & SMS Automation for improved Marketing
Marketing. The ever-evolving development of strategies that aid businesses reach their target market with valuable goods and services.
How to create a new ruby gem
In this article I will explain how we can build a new ruby gem, using as an example the one I created for Slack authentication.
How to choose the best technology stack for your Startup to ensure fast and incremental innovation
When we talk about startups, some things are for sure: they have a wonderful team, some great ideas but not always know which technology stack is the right one.
Why having a QA Tester on your team is so important
First and foremost, so we get any confusion or misconception out of the way, what is a QA tester? A QA (Quality Assurance) tester, in software development, checks new software releases for any…
Have you ever heard about Ruby on Rails? Discover why startups love it (and so do we) for product development
If your startup is looking to deliver a quality product as quickly as possible in a reliable, cost-effective, and scalable way… Ruby on Rails is the perfect development platform for that mission.
How To Create a Successful MVP
If you’re planning to build a digital product, a mobile or web app, you should think about how to address your future users’ needs and predict potential risks early on in the development process.
From startup to scale-up: how to choose a tech partner for the long-run
Are you looking to reach new levels of growth and expansion? It’s time to embrace some ideas to take you there. Going from startup to scale-up is much easier and faster with the right tech partner at…
Should I have an in-house Product Manager or an outsourced one?
When you begin building your startup, many questions arise. One such classic question is: Do you outsource product development, or do you hire people to build an in-house team?
Will I lose control if I outsource product development?
Long story short: No. You don’t have to lose control of your product’s development if you bring in an outside team to develop it.
The Startup CTO Dilemma: How to Overcome a Lack of Talent When Product Development Can’t Wait
So, you are trying to hire a local product development team for your startup, but it is just not working because there’s a huge lack of specialised development talent, or you do not have the budget.
Simple React Native App Structure
This post reflects a personal opinion on how to organize and structure a React Native project and some best practices to have.
Coinbase transactions with Python and Pandas
Coinbase provides an API to interact with the platform, check the documentation at https://developers.coinbase.com/api/v2 .
6 Questions to Answer Before Deciding on a Ruby on Rails Services Company
Your startup has an awesome idea, and you want to transform it into an amazing, robust, and scalable digital product. You need to deliver it quickly to the market and evolve it over time.
How to Install Node.js on Windows?
This is a step-by-step guide for installing Node.js on a Windows machine.
5 Key Benefits of Ruby on Rails That Make It Startup-friendly
As startup CTOs know well, the success of any venture strongly relies on the ability to efficiently bring an idea to life, to turn a concept into reality.
1 Year of Pandemic-remote
This article is a personal retrospective and reflection on 1 year of the pandemic crisis. I’ll also briefly talk about how we, at Runtime Revolution, adapted our recruitment process and culture…
Upgrading to Flutter 2.0 and creating all types of apps with the same code — On Windows
What do you think about creating an Android/IOS App + a web page + a Windows application with the same code and without much effort? Does it sound like a dream?
5 Steps to Increase Your Creativity
Am I a creative person? What is creativity? How can I stimulate my imagination? Certainly, somewhere during your life, you have asked yourself these questions.
Connecting React Native to localhost
This is something that happens to me on every React Native project.
Golang DNS Resolving
Lately, I have been writing Golang (more commonly known as just Go, which is what I’ll be using from here on out) at work, and so far I have been enjoying it a lot!
Remotees At Work
For the past month Runtime Revolution has been working full remote, for reasons the whole world is aware of. Going remote is such a game changer at Runtime, and to me personally, that I immediately…
Exceptionally Remote
The now long distance Recruiter
How to start with React Native
In this article, I’ll tell you what you need to bootstrap a React Native app.
Starting with AWS DynamoDB using Python
This guide is meant to provide a base, or a quick start, for interfacing with AWS DynamoDB using Python, its contents are based on the repo https://github.com/5thempire/aws-dynamodb .
Gem Factory
A cool perk of being an able developer is the ability to, if you want, improve or add to the tools you use daily and allow others to benefit from it.
The art of reverting
For me, being a Software Developer is all about learning from your mistakes.
Managing Unrealistic Expectations in Recruitment
So your company is growing and you’re in need of some recruitment action!
Project idea from the bottom of a drawer
You know that promise you make to yourself every so often about building that project you came up with years ago? Everyone owns a virtual drawer filled with ideas for amazing projects.
What to ask when looking for a nearshore development company?
New companies continue to pop up every day in a growingly digital world, and there’s a shortage of talent all across the leading tech hubs.
4 quick tips to improve your communication skills
One of the essential skills that you’ll need is how to communicate all the things related to your work. I am constantly baffled by the lack of education/preparation that college provides for one of…
Realness in recruitment
Let’s get straight to the point. Recruitment has a bad reputation.
Saving data inside the browser’s storage — a summary
Every time you visit a website you may have noticed that on repeated visits there are some elements that no longer appear or load faster.
Developers, please don’t be fooled!
Developers nowadays are in charge of their own careers. Developers are one group of people that can afford to be picky in today’s job market.
Organize your translations using multiple locales files
Of course, this contains an example with Pokémon!
To merge or to rebase: that is the question
It’s one of the eternal questions that ignite all dev discussions, on par with:
Grids, why I love them and why you should not run away from them
I am a designer, a UX/UI designer to be precise, and I love grids. But wait, which designer doesn’t? Okay, I know designers are not all the same and perhaps not all designers love grids, but we have…
Building a Slack App using Ruby and Sinatra
My team at Runtime Revolution uses an in-house app for team management and other day-to-day chores. Recently, I was asked to integrate Slack’s Slash Commands into it.
Toilet Vacant: A Rails app which notifies you via Slack
Every day, there’s that time when you need to go to the toilet. You get off your chair, start walking towards a door with a drawing of a gentleman or a lady and hope that it is vacant.
My journey in developing editor extensions
When Github’s Atom editor was released a few years ago, I, like many other Web Developers, thought something along the lines of “Neat! An extensible editor built on a stack I know”.
IT recruiters are crybabies 😭 😭 😭
Yap. I said it. Let the flame war begin! 🔥
Game DLCs look a lot like software releases, trust me
Did you ever stop to think that a game’s downloadable content (commonly known in the game industry as DLC) and the overall game development scene currently have a lot in common with software…
Managing a Multi-Project and still having time to chill
Since 2017, I’ve been assigned a new role here at Runtime: managing a team of six people (including me), managing an international partner, and managing a software project (well, not just one, but…
React - Passing data between components… with Pokemon as an example!
Passing data between react components can be simple, but in some occasions, it can be very tricky. While from parent to child, and vice-versa , can be a straightforward process, you’ll need to use…
What no one tells you about your first job as a software engineer
The first day of work. A phrase that causes anxiety attacks in almost every senior student. College is already difficult, but how much more challenging can a real day of work be?
React Tests — Component Tests, Async Action Tests, and Reducer Tests
Since I started developing I have always heard about testing my applications, but we would never spend much time on it. This started in college where there were some classes that gave an idea of what…
Building a cross-platform todo mobile app using Flutter: Pt. 2
In the first part of this series (which you should totally take a look at) , we set up our workspace to build apps with Flutter.
Four things about Pry
I love REPL s. It’s a great development tool. Any decent language has a REPL. Lisp has it. Python has it. So does Haskell . And Ruby , obviously, has it!
Building a cross-platform to-do mobile app using Flutter
I’ve been playing with this tool for some time, but not enough to have a thorough understanding of it. So, as I’m writing this post, I’ll actually be learning along with it.
Implementing Conway’s Game of Life With React — Part 2
In part 1 of implementing Conway’s Game of Life, we learned about React and one of the things it can be used for. We also learned what Conway’s Game of Life is, along with its rules.
Getting started with Angular 6, GitLab CI/CD and Google App Engine
This article will provide an initial setup to better understand and configure a continuous integration and delivery architecture (CI/CD).
“There’s No I In Team” is a Lie
Ok, so the title is also a lie… There isn’t really a letter ‘i’ in the word ‘team’. But if you ignore that simple fact, my point remains — “There’s No I In Team” is a lie.
Full Stack People
At Runtime Revolution everyone is Full Stack, even the few of us who aren’t developers, and we like to keep it that way.
Implementing Conway’s Game of Life With React — Part 1
R eact is an open-source javascript library used to build user interfaces. Since its release, React has become more and more popular.
Polyglot content in a rails app
Most of the apps that we develop are in English. As this is the most universal language in the world, it is normal to use English since it means reaching more people with our app.
Are your meetings effective?
Meetings are becoming more and more a central part of almost all organisations. According to a study , in the US alone workers have 11 million meetings a day, which adds up to 55 million meetings per…
Python from the beginning
Set up Python, VSCode and Jupyter
What does your developer environment look like?
A while ago here at Runtime Revolution, I ran a voluntary survey for the engineers in our Team to take. It started out simply as me trying to figure out if people use a different font to code than…
Bullet Time Effects in Unity
Have you ever wondered how game developers and even motion picture directors add slow motion effects to their products and/or movies?
It’s a kind of ImageMagick®
Frontend development involves managing a variety of assets, be they stylesheets, javascript files, images, video, sound, and whatever else a particular project may have.
JWT may not be the holy grail… You must choose, but choose wisely!
The technological landscape changes at a fast pace. It’s nearly impossible to keep up with it. Fortunately, at Runtime Revolution we have a strong team always dealing on the forefront, using the…
Everything Redux — Part 2
This series of posts aims to show how redux works and the different possibilities that it can bring to your application.
Postman CI/CD
Postman is a powerful tool. Everyone that has worked with or developed an API has probably used postman and acknowledged its power.
A Simple Real Time Chat with Django Channels and React
In this article I will talk about developing a real time chat. You can check the chat working in this video .
Crystal is not Ruby Pt. 2
Crystal is a very interesting language and has become one of my favorites to work with. It’s constantly compared to Ruby and is often marketed as an alternative to write performant code but with a…
Calculating Route…
Ruby on Rails’ routing mechanism was the topic which took me the longest to grasp. Being the gateway between the application and the world, understanding its functionalities, possibilities, and…
Redis — An Introduction
Redis is an in-memory key-value data store that you can integrate with your application to store volatile data. It’s volatile because once you quit Redis, all the data you’ve stored is lost.
Interactor Objects
As time goes by and your application grows, your code will become increasingly more complex. This means that there will be a lot more logic in places where it shouldn’t be.
Productivity: Happiness and the Work / Life balance fallacy
During the last few decades, the workforce landscape has changed drastically. The repetitive, “factoryesque” jobs that proliferated and dominated after the industrial revolution are becoming more and…
Crystal is not Ruby Part 1
Crystal is a very interesting project that I have been following for the last couple of months. There is no 1.0 release yet ( but it’s close ) so I haven’t really used it in any production systems,…
Everything Redux — Part 1
This series of posts aims to show how redux works and the different possibilities that it can bring to your application.
Bringing Rails, webpack, react and camaleon-cms together
TL;DR A Github repo is available as a template to get started with Rails, camaleon-cms, webpack(er) and react. Stick around to see some tips and tricks on how we made everything run smoothly.
Transposing Lisp into Ruby
When you work for a long time on the same technology you can become alienated from the world around you. For the past eight years I must have spent 90% of my time in the land of lisp ( pun intended)…
Managing several Heroku apps more easily
This article is aimed at developers or team leaders who have started using Heroku and need to handle, maintain and deploy several heroku apps at the same time.
Building Mobile Applications with React Native. A brief introduction
The number of mobile devices is estimated to cross the 5 billion [1] mark between 2018 and 2019. This is pushing the mobile application development market forward, with the ever increasing demand for…
Working for a US company from Lisbon as an offshore team
In February of 2016, I started a new experience in my life. I was cast as the leader of a team (a team of two, at the time, including myself, though having grown a lot more since then…) that would…
Introduction to React — where to start?
Five months ago, I finished my degree and I had never dived into front-end development. So when I first started working and they offered me the chance to work with front-end I eagerly accepted.
Symbolception — A cautionary tale on Sketch symbols
As a recent adopter of Sketch , having come from Adobe’s Photoshop , I have found symbols to be one of the most important and versatile features of this app.
Public Speaking — Some guidelines
Public speaking. Whilst something that I personally enjoy, it strikes fear into the hearts of others. It is true that not everyone feels comfortable in front of a crowd, but sometimes it is necessary…
User testing fast-paced projects
It’s very common to hear from clients or people responsible for a certain digital product that “we don’t have time or budget to test functionalities with users”, often due to the fast-paced and/or…
Building a DSL in Ruby — Part 2
In the previous blog post , we implemented the first version of an example of a DSL library in ruby, a simple FactoryBot clone.
Building a DSL in Ruby — Part 1
Have you ever wondered how libraries like FactoryGirl (or should I say FactoryBot ?) work? Or Rails routing? It all seems a bit like magic sometimes doesn’t it? Let me debunk all of that for you!
Open Source Contributions made simple
Contributing to Open Source software can be overwhelming. There are a lot of projects that need help and welcome new contributors, but getting started can be hard.
Building Up Team Spirit
Behind any successful project there’s always a successful team.
An in-depth look at the OAuth2 redirect flow
Implementing an OAuth2 client in rails is a simple task due to gems like omniauth and devise . They do the heavy work implementing the core of the O Auth2 protocol.
Streaming data in Postgres
Let’s say you have a table with millions of rows (in the order of hundreds of millions). In this scenario, you should think twice before issuing a query against such table.
Validating Form Objects
There’s one question that comes up soon after starting to use form objects :
Getting 100% with rounded percentages
I’m currently working with reports and graphs and I had the following request for one of these reports:
Customize Your Icons Font with IcoMoon
How do you insert icons in your website? Do you store the image files as assets? Do you use an icon font like Font Awesome or Ionicons ?
Integrating a Third Party API with Rails 5
Sometimes you have an idea for an application but don’t want the hassle of collecting the data you need, or perhaps you need a service to complement your existing app.
Ruby Challenge: Feature flagging in Python
I’ve been programming in Python for the last year. I’d rather work in Ruby but there are some features in Python and some of its libraries that are really cool.
How to be a Designer Tomorrow
As a Designer for the constantly evolving digital media, if I had a crystal ball to predict the future based on the present trends, what will I be doing in a couple of years?
Deploy your Rails app with Capistrano
Are you building an awesome Rails web application? Do you want to deploy it in a remote machine so other users can use it?
Communication inside my team
In a previous blog post I talked about some aspects that you should be aware of if you want to be a better team leader. One that I purposefully left out is the communication within a team, not…
Lead by becoming dispensable
In my last post, I talked about some of the things that I believe are crucial for improving as a team leader.
The battle for auditing and versioning in Rails — Audited vs Paper Trail
Nowadays, there is a growing need to have mechanisms that allows us to control who performed a particular action in a system.
Take 5 mins to make docker friendlier
Imagine you’ve just started working on a rails project with the following docker-compose file:
Value Objects in Ruby on Rails
Today I’m going to talk about value objects and how they can be used and identified in your Rails application.
Rails Quiz: XSS Edition
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability that enables an attacker to inject code into a web page.
Are you Spying on me? A quick overview of Spies in RSpec
When executing code, you expect things to happen. You expect objects to receive messages. You also expect objects to receive one, or more, messages a certain number of times (in most cases).
Organize Your CSS with BEM
How many times have you been on a project where the CSS was huge and poorly structured? You try to change some style and it ends up either messing up some other element or simply doing nothing.
Working with Facebook using Devise, Omniauth, Koala and Rails 5
The feature that possibly every developer had to implement at some point in their career is user authentication. In some cases, you might want to make use of Facebook accounts to facilitate the…
My Daily tools as a Designer
For the last 15 years, I practically used the same tools:
The Right Tool for Achieving your Dreams
Recently I did a presentation to the Runtime Revolution team about Goal planning. I talked about ‘ SMART ’, ‘ DUMB ’, Tony Robbins RPM and David Allen’s GTD .
Easy SSL with Heroku & Cloudflare
At Runtime Revolution we value the importance of security. As such, in any web application where sensitive data needs to be transmitted (e.g.
SSL: What & Why
In any web application project a common and nowadays increasingly important requirement is security. Within this domain, possible breaches can originate in any number of ways, such as cross-site…
Saving multiple Models with Form Objects and Transactions
We’ve talked before about form objects and how they can simplify our Rails views. Now I’d like to present a more complex scenario and one way to tackle it.
Design Patterns and Sources
A design pattern is a way a problem is solved most of the time, avoiding the need to re-invent the wheel. As a UX designer, I resort to these patterns frequently when designing interfaces.
Unit testing with VCR
You have an application that makes HTTP calls to an external service and you have no tests for it. You want to make sure that your application behaves correctly whether those services return…
Conditional Eager Loading in Rails
One of the most common performance issues that can affect a rails application (or any other web application) is the n+1 queries problem.
Core Data on iOS 10, a brief overview with an Example
Core Data is a framework, provided by Apple, to be used on Applications for iOS and macOS. As Apple states, it is not a database, but instead a persistence framework that commonly uses SQLite to…
4 Lessons from Startup Life
Back in 2012, I decided that I needed a change in my life… Even today I remember how I felt in the morning before going to work, so sad that I would almost start crying in desperation.
Creating Form Objects with ActiveModel
A form object is an object designed specifically to be passed to form_for . It is often used to aggregate data to create multiple objects or to receive ephemeral data that is used and then discarded.
Want to use ES6 with Rails right now ? Webpack to the rescue
Today I’m going to talk about setting up a Rails application so you can write complex JavaScript features using ECMAScript 6, also known as ECMAScript 2015, and its marvellous new features.
How I get organized
In this post, I’ll try to share some simple techniques to get organized, and talk a bit about why I bother with them.
“Designer…ish” speaking
UX Designers are an interesting “species” living somewhere between the client, the users and the developers, bridging them to ensure the product will accomplish its goals.
Want to be a great team leader? The “usual stuff” is not enough!
Since the beginning of my career, being a team leader was on my path for evolving as a professional. But to be honest, I didn’t have a clue of what that meant.
Extending git with Ruby
At Runtime Revolution all our projects use git as part of the development workflow, which is why I think its important to find ways of extending git to make our lives easier.
Setting up a simple Rails development environment with Docker for fun and profit
C reating a development environment may seem like a trivial task for many developers. As time progresses, and we find ourselves dwelling through the life cycle of so many projects, one probably ends…
A simple trick to make your classes easier to test
I’m a firmly believer that good code is code that can be easily tested . If I can’t easily test a module or a class, it most likely means that the class has too many dependencies and/or too many…
What I look for when hiring
When I was in Runtime Revolution ’s hiring process, so I got to interview a lot of candidates that wanted to join Runtime’s development team.
UX Design behind the scenes
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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