SitePoint - 10 October 2016
Ruby’s Hash is arguably the most useful data type in the language. Utilizing a structure that lends itself well to modelling real-world problems, combined with speedy lookups, it is frequently the backbone of scripts, web pages, and complex business logic. It was even once used internally by Ruby to store all your functions, variables, and constants (although modern Ruby approaches this differently by using branch prediction of hot paths and call-site method caching; that’s another post!) We often take it for granted that it “just works”. Today we’re going to delve into the internals of Hash, seeing exactly why it works, how it is so efficient, and how it is implemented. Onward!
Reinteractive - 10 October 2016
✏️ This blog post uses ionic 2.0.0-rc.o
In my previous article, I gave a basic overview about ionic2 and its features. Now it is time to go beyond that and build something that actually works.
In this article, I'll be building a simple weather app. Along with the standard functionality, it will also use the following features:
1 - Cordova plugins (GeoLocation in this case) in an ionic2 app.
2 - Obtaining data from an external JSON API.
Using Cordova plugins
As you may already know, hybr...
Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots - 10 October 2016
How to use subdomains in your feature specs.
zverok with ruby - 09 October 2016
MiniTest recently have gained a
lot of love and respect from Ruby community, as a “less magical” alternative
to RSpec (which is, apparently, “too complicated”
for nowadays rubyists). The one quote proudly cited on each MiniTest
release email, and in its README, is
SitePoint - 06 October 2016
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<div class="sum"><p>An important theme in many teachings of the design craft, user testing can be a bit elusive with “real world work,” very often because stakeholders haven’t ever had a chance to appreciate its value when developing products. Having finally completed my own first, successful foray into user testing, I put together the process we used […]</p></div>
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<div class="sum"><p>In this episode, Kyle is joined by Mike McQuaid, a maintainer on Homebrew, to talk about open source, how Homebrew works, and the hardest part of running a huge package manager for Macs. Let's give this new format a try!
SitePoint - 03 October 2016
All the different programming languages out there seem to be a better fit for machine learning tasks than Ruby, right? Python has scikit-learn, Java has Weka, and there’s Shogun for machine learning in C++, just to name a few. On the other hand, Ruby has an excellent reputation for fast prototyping. So, why shouldn’t you […]