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Announcing Pro Tips & Hacker Desks
Us developers spend most of our time at desks in front of computers. The right setup is crucial for our best hacking. So we asked some of the awesome developers in the coderwall community to share an...
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Take a photo of yourself every time you commit
Download imagesnap from https://github.com/alexwilliamsca/imagesnap or install it with homebrew:
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A Software Architect
A software architect lives to serve the engineering team -- not the other way around. A software architect is a mentor. A software architect is a student. A software architect is the code janitor....
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Avoid box-model disparity with box-sizing
A well-supported --but often misunderstood-- CSS property, box-sizing describes how your content-width, padding and border contribute to the overall width of a block-level element.
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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.
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PHP Class for Rackspace CloudDB Service
I threw together a little PHP class to access the Cloud Database service by Rackspace since I didn't see any available from Rackspace or on GitHub yet.
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CI for Open Source iOS Applications, Part 1: Setup
This guide will walk you through setting up a Jenkins continuous integration server for your open source iOS project. By the end of the guide, you will be able to add an image to your README indicating...
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New HTML Tricks for Web Developers in Appleās iOS
Appleās recent iOS 6 update added some nice new web standards support to Mobile Safari, the default iOS web browser for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
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Git is cheap!
committing and branching is cheap with git so stop worrying about it : split your features into small bricks and commit early and often.
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API Design Best Practices
Or how to stop third party developers from hating you. As web developers most of us are accustomed to using APIs. Most of the time all we do is use libraries that abstract away the pain of working with...
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Simple MySQL wrapper using mysqli_*
Here's a simple mysql wrapper perfect for small scale applications such as cron jobs, facebook canvas campaigns or micro frameworks and sites. https://github.com/entomb/OBJ-MySQL
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Show git branches sorted by latest commit
Note: coderwall's markdown pre-processor seems to think that -- indicate Haskell comments in the code blocks and is hiding them. I'm going to not use code blocks until it works. Sorry about that.
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Wishing you a multilingual Christmas
Please add as many new languages to the comments as you like
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Clever gentlemanly recruiter, or spam from a conman?
So talentbin http://www.talentbin.com/ with a mix of scraping and api access crawls sites like github and google plus picking out interesting things developers do and where in the world they do them....
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One line browser notepad
Sometimes I just need to type garbage. Just to clear out my mind. Using editors to type such gibberish annoys me because it clutters my project workspace (I'm picky, I know).
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1600% faster app requests with Rails on Heroku
Using rainbows! and em-http-request resulted in a 1600% performance increase compared to using unicorn and net_http. (For the use case described below)
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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:
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