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Leveling up with POWER8. August 4, 2015. Over the past year I've had the privilege of working on a new POWER architecture ppc64le. PowerPC 64bit Little Endian). We've had a long relationship with IBM at the Open Source Lab (OSL) providing resources for the POWER architecture to FOSS projects. Earlier this year, IBM graciously donated three powerful POWER8. Machines to the OSL to replace our aging FTP cluster. This produced a few challenges we needed to overcome to make this work:. It was an extremely dif...
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vim | Freenode Infra-Talk Channel
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Everyday Vim A Basic Vim Commands Cheat Sheet. April 19, 2016. Is a pretty great text editor, but learning to use it effectively can be a challenge. Even if you keep a quick-reference card or cheatsheet around, it can be difficult to figure out which commands are the most useful. But the truth is, Vim can still be super helpful if all you know is a few commands. So I’ve compiled a few of the Vim commands that I use every day. 8221; instead of just holding j. Until you get there). Ctrl u ctrl d. Move to t...
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ddc | Freenode Infra-Talk Channel
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6 Months of Avoiding Rails Controllers with DDC. August 1, 2015. My distaste for unnecessary Rails controllers. Is no secret. That’s why I wrote the ddc gem (Data Driven Controllers). When DDC was released, it got mixed reviews in the comments section, so I thought I’d post a follow up with my results thus far. There have been a few features added along the way to round out the DDC API:. DDC has been a great tool in my tool belt. I’d really like to see Rails find a clean way to make controllers...I’...
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6 Months of Avoiding Rails Controllers with DDC. August 1, 2015. My distaste for unnecessary Rails controllers. Is no secret. That’s why I wrote the ddc gem (Data Driven Controllers). When DDC was released, it got mixed reviews in the comments section, so I thought I’d post a follow up with my results thus far. There have been a few features added along the way to round out the DDC API:. DDC has been a great tool in my tool belt. I’d really like to see Rails find a clean way to make controllers...I’...
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controllers | Freenode Infra-Talk Channel
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6 Months of Avoiding Rails Controllers with DDC. August 1, 2015. My distaste for unnecessary Rails controllers. Is no secret. That’s why I wrote the ddc gem (Data Driven Controllers). When DDC was released, it got mixed reviews in the comments section, so I thought I’d post a follow up with my results thus far. There have been a few features added along the way to round out the DDC API:. DDC has been a great tool in my tool belt. I’d really like to see Rails find a clean way to make controllers...I’...
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ruby | Freenode Infra-Talk Channel
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Uploading Files in Rails Using Paperclip and Active Admin. July 23, 2016. I recently came across a situation where I needed to be able to upload a file to a Rails server with Active Admin. I did a quick search on Google and found this post. By Job, a fellow Atom. Gem to manage the file processing and storage. Using Job’s advice on Active Admin file uploads, I expanded his example to incorporate Paperclip. Install the Paperclip Gem. Installing the gem is easy. Just add. Technically, only the. Column is re...
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Ember.js | Freenode Infra-Talk Channel
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Category Archives: Ember.js. Embedding Ember in Existing Apps. July 30, 2016. My current project, an online student assessment tool, involves adding features to a Rails app built in the 2011/2012 Rails 3. Era The app was also built using Backbone.js. A custom templating language, and raw JSON. Responses. It was developed using good development and design practices (such as TDD, SRP, etc.), but many of these technologies have been superseded by modern frameworks such as Ember.js. Why Use a Hybrid Approach?
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Developer Tools | Freenode Infra-Talk Channel
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Category Archives: Developer Tools. How to Debug Stored Procedures in Visual Studio in 3 Steps. August 24, 2016. My first project at Atomic was a C#-based web application using Visual Studio. As time passed, I became familiar with many of the shortcuts and tools. That Visual Studio provides to help with common development tasks. Whenever there was a section of code that I didn’t quite understand, I would use the debugging tools to my advantage. Stepping Through Stored Procedures. In order to perform any ...
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Ruby on Rails | Freenode Infra-Talk Channel
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Category Archives: Ruby on Rails. Testing Data Migrations in Rails. August 17, 2016. When working on a Rails. Project, you will inevitably need to move data around in your database. Some join table value will need to be moved into its own table or what have you. When approaching these kinds of migrations, there are two major complications: future-proofing and testing. In this post, let’s walk through an example migration. Hook has been added? What if that class doesn’t even exist anymore? In your migrati...
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Personal Optimization | Freenode Infra-Talk Channel
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Category Archives: Personal Optimization. Quenching the Fire of Clients From Hell. August 25, 2016. Have you ever seen the website Clients from Hell. While a blog full of tropes in which two parties verbally assault one another isn’t the most helpful thing ever created, I do think it serves to highlight a reality in software product design and development: Sometimes, projects go to hell. An All-Too Familiar Scenario. How did our project end up in hell? And more importantly: How can we get back on track?
