Clik here to view.
Pagination: You're (Probably) Doing It Wrong.
Pagination? No problem! SELECT ... LIMIT X, Y Right? Hah! Not quite! You see, your pagination logic is not stable; and that matters quite a bit in this ajaxy, client-appy, infinite-scrolly world.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Object Path Validation
An object path represents the logical path of a property inside an object (from the root to the node member). This article aims to expose a possibile solution in validating this kind of paths with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
programming with purpose.
So here we find ourselves {programmers} being incessantly pinged by recruiters and fawned over by non programmers. "Damn we are important" is what runs through our heads.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keep TODOs in git
This records an empty commit prefixed with "TODO". This way git log will remind you both what you have done on this branch and what you need to be doing:
View ArticleClik here to view.
Workflow in Tmux
Tmux has three levels of hierarchy when it comes to organizing views: Sessions, windows, and panes. Sessions are groups of windows, and a window is a layout of panes. Windows and panes are to a certain...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breaking Bad logo with CSS, HTML, SVG & JS
A while ago I recreated the logo from Breaking Bad with just some CSS, HTML (canvas), SVG and JavaScript:
View ArticleClik here to view.
The single most useful thing in bash
This allows you to search through your history using the up and down arrows … i.e. type "cd /" and press the up arrow and you'll search through everything in your history that starts with "cd /".
View ArticleClik here to view.
The //* /*/ //*/ comment toggle trick
So, I guess I'm not the only one that need some way of easily toggling code in and out of the code.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Please, oh please, use git pull --rebase
When working on a project you usually synchronize your code by pulling it several times a day. What you might not know is that by typing
View ArticleClik here to view.
Associative/sparse arrays in pure C? Give it a trie!
While we usually take associative array/dictionary/hash data structure as granted in modern programming languages, there is no such thing builtin in a good old C. It might be tempting to use SQLite or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Safe stubbing with Bogus
Bogus presents a novel way of isolating in Ruby tests. This posts shows how to stub safely with Bogus.
View ArticleClik here to view.
FTP is so 90's. Let's deploy via Git instead!
First, create a directory on your server and initialize an empty git repository. I like to serve my websites from ~/www/, so that's what I'll do in this example.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scale PHP on Ec2 to 30,000 Concurrent Users / Server
RockThePost.com is a LAMP stack hosted on Ec2. We're preparing to be featured in an email which will be sent to ~1M investors... all at the same time. For our 2 person engineering department, that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Launch a standby "emergency mode" website today
We were just featured in an email that was sent to a million people. It went great but we were a little concerned about what would happen if we had an unexpected problem in our application at the last...
View ArticleClik here to view.
8 Things I’ve Learned As A Web Engineer
I do not have a computer science degree yet I’ve worked in 8 companies in the last 13 years holding leading software development positions. 99% of what I do I learned by doing.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Java is always "pass by value"
Remember that when you pass a parameter in java, java is always "pass-by-value".
View ArticleClik here to view.
Advices and resources for PHP novices
Yesterday, a tweet from Chris Cornutt made me think a lot about how it is nowadays to get started, from the very beginning, with PHP.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Move over Bootstrap and Foundation, welcome Semantic UI
I don't usually like changing frameworks, even if it's just an HTML/CSS framework. But sometimes, the final product makes it all worth it.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Use a Google Spreadsheet as your JSON backend
When writing a simple web app or prototyping something, you may want a quick and simple way to store, edit and retrieve data.
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to draw heart shaped ImageView in Android using PorterDuffXfermode and SVG
Custom shape ImageView using PorterDuffXfermode with paint shapes and SVGs Android library
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bootstrap without all the debt
My old coworker Matt Copeland recently wrote an excellent article called Bootstrap Bankruptcy, in which he compares using Bootstrap on a website to taking out a mortgage:
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scripting Objective-C code with Clang
It works by using AWK to get the objc portion and then creating a new tmp file that is compiled and executed. When the program is executed we immediately delete the two temporary files.
View ArticleClik here to view.
[Android] Use i-Racer (DaguCar) commands set
A simple demo done in a couple hours, on how to send i-racer (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11162) commands (http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/datasheets/Robotics/DaguCarCommands.pdf) via...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parsing the Kafka protocol with Erlang. Pattern matching FTW!
This is post is about I took a raw response from a Kafka broker that looked like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Google Spreadsheet JSON API: SQL Filtering
Using Google Spreadsheet as a JSON backend is not a new story, but do you know what's sexier? Filtering data from that spreadsheet with simple SQL syntax!
View Article