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My Thoughts and Experiences on Pair Programming - Intro – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. My Thoughts and Experiences on Pair Programming - Intro. Aug 10, 2015. Note: This is part one of a three part series. You can find part 2. What is pair programming? When developers pair program, the same developers don't stay together all the time (unless the team consists of two developers). By switching pairs, developers get to work with everybody else on the team and get exposed to other work. My experience with pair switching has been the following:. The devs will pair for a...

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Javascript - call() and apply() – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. Javascript - call() and apply(). Jun 21, 2015. When I first encountered the call() and apply() functions in Javascript, I had difficulty wrapping my head around how they worked. I also wasn't really sure what practical purpose they served. I'm going to explain how these two functions work and what they are used for. Function printPokemonInfo() { alert(this.name ' is Pokemon #' this.number ' and is a ' this.type ' type.'); }. The function is accessing properties off of. I'll expl...

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Semantic Versioning – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. Sep 4, 2014. At work, the topic of semantic versioning came up. I decided to do some research on the topic since I had not heard of the term before. What is semantic versioning? Semantic versioning allows developers to easily reason about when it is and isn't appropriate to adopt a new version of a dependency. For semantic versioning, your product must define a public API. The basic format for your API's version should be as follows:. CalculateRectangleArea(int length, int width).

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Processes In Elixir – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. Nov 2, 2014. Elixir makes use to the Erlang VM to create and manage many processes. Concurrency is easy and inexpensive in Elixir. You can make a new process in Elixir by using the spawn function:. Spawn(module, :function name, [optional arguments]). Into iex, you'll find that iex itself runs as an elixir process. Iex(1) self #PID 0.53.0. Here is a simple example:. Defmodule ProcessMessage do def send message msg do destination pid = spawn(ProcessMessage, :get message, []) IO&#4...

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My Thoughts and Experiences on Pair Programming - Benefits – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. My Thoughts and Experiences on Pair Programming - Benefits. Aug 11, 2015. Of my series, I gave an introduction to pair programming and discussed setting up an environment conducive to pair programming. I'll now talk about the benefits of pair programming. No single point of failure. Collaboration and improved design. I find pairing is most optimal for both people in the pair when they 1) have a similar skill level or 2) have a similar level of familiarity with the codebase.

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A Month With Python – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. A Month With Python. May 31, 2015. Recently, I attended an exceptional philly.rb meetup where two talks were presented. One was on civic hacking. And one was on language exploration. The talk on language exploration, titled "Make up your own 'Hello, world! Inspired me to take a short-to-medium-term look into a new language. I decided to try this idea and timebox learning a new language to a month. The language I chose: Python. My version of 'Hello, world! By Al Sweigart. Bec...

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Elixir Sampler Flight – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. Feb 9, 2015. Over the past few months, I've been messing around with the Elixir programming language. As far as functional languages go, I have yet to find one that I can stick to. Elixir has been my latest FP adventure. I'd like to give you a sampling of the Elixir language along with some of its features and tools. When José started creating Elixir, he had three goals in mind: compatibility, productivity, and extensibility. In my opinion, the extensibility and productivity goa...

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Equality Comparison In JavaScript – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. Equality Comparison In JavaScript. Jul 22, 2015. Let's talk about something not fun: equality comparison in JavaScript. In most languages, operators for checking equality and inequality between two values exist. They usually are = and! Truthy and Falsy Values. When comparing two different values that are of different types, JavaScript will coerce these values into booleans when = and! 0 = false;. False = false;. Which is a true statement. Just Use = = and! Don't ever use the = a...

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My Thoughts and Experiences on Pair Programming - Challenges – House of Black and White

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House of Black and White. My Thoughts and Experiences on Pair Programming - Challenges. Aug 12, 2015. This is the final post in a three part series. In part 1. Of this series, I gave an introduction to pair programming. In part 2. I discussed the benefits of pair programming. I will now talk about the challenges of pair programming. Pairing isn't a silver bullet. Like anything, there are drawbacks that come with the advantages. There are also times when it's better to not pair on work. That will usually ...