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10/28/15
Learn Some Angular 2 at the Playground
Angular 2 is getting closer. I’ve been super excited to see things taking shape over the last few months, but it’s not always easy to dig in and try stuff out. As expected with a rapidly evolving project that isn’t beta yet, let alone 1.0, documentation is often either lacking...
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10/16/15
Interoperability in Elixir: Dealing with the world outside the Beam
Ports, Nifs, and Interfaces, Oh my! Elixir is an incredibly powerful language that sits on top of the battle tested and reliable Erlang ecosystem. This power is a big reason I am excited about building applications in Elixir. It enables us to write more of our application’s stack in Elixir...
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09/23/15
4 Reasons We're Having Fun Programming Elixir
Ruby on Rails has been our go to server side technology for quite a few years now, but we’re always evaluating other things coming down the pike. On the client side, there’s been a number of hugely productive newcomers, but on the server side nothing has created the same level...
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09/01/15
How One Developer Learned to Appreciate Upfront Design
I used to be a web designer. I made and maintained some public-facing corporate websites. So when I began developing, my only concept of design was the graphic kind. Design for selling; not design for using. When I started freelancing as a developer, I could make functional software with no...
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08/14/15
A Beginner’s Guide to the Ember Run Loop
Have you ever wondered why you always seem to get this error message when writing unit tests? Error: Assertion Failed: You have turned on testing mode, which disabled the runloop's autorun. You will need to wrap any code with asynchronous side-effects in a run As someone who forgets the Ember.run...
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08/04/15
Releasing CRäKN, Weeks 9 & 10: How Do You Build An App Faster?
This post is part of a blog series that follows along as we work with our client, CRäKN, to build a software-as-a-service app. First post here. It was an action-packed couple of weeks for CRäKN. The team logged some extra hours as they raced to finish features for a demo....
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