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An Introduction to Go Tools and Clean Code · Simon Taranto

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I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. An Introduction to Go Tools and Clean Code. Sep 6, 2014 · 2 minute read. I’ve begun learning Go. And while the language has been fun to learn and use, figuring out all the tooling has been less than simple. Here’s a quick overview of a sample tool chain to get you started with community acceptable code. Step 1: the compiler. Step 2: go fmt. This tool automatically formats Go source code and as the docs.

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Writing and deploying multiple Rails apps with Nginx · Simon Taranto

http://blog.simontaranto.com/post/2014-02-06-writing-and-deploying-multiple-rails-apps-with-nginx.html

I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. Writing and deploying multiple Rails apps with Nginx. Feb 6, 2014 · 6 minute read. For our last project. Github OAuth / Auth DB / / Client -cookie- / - - / Dashboard -gem- API DB - - / gem - Receiver External Services -. All of our code can be found on our organization’s. Page Each particular app and process has its own repo, which are summarized below:. Gem: https:/ github.com/FooFoBerry/foofoberry.

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Refactoring Ruby Iteration Patterns to the Database · Simon Taranto

http://blog.simontaranto.com/post/2014-04-16-refactoring-ruby-iteration-patterns-to-the-database.html

I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. Refactoring Ruby Iteration Patterns to the Database. Apr 16, 2014 · 1 minute read. Check out my recent article.

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Writing Functional SQL in PostreSQL: Don't do it · Simon Taranto

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I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. Writing Functional SQL in PostreSQL: Dont do it. Sep 6, 2014 · 2 minute read. During some recent PostgreSQL rabbit hole digging. I discovered the concept of ‘functional query notation’ and it mildly blew my mind. Assuming we have two tables:. The following two queries return the same data:. Dot notation (pretty typical):. Functional notation (pretty atypical):. This second approach raised some questions:.

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Stuck? Get into the pairing mentality · Simon Taranto

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I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. Get into the pairing mentality. Mar 25, 2014 · 1 minute read. This post is on the softer side of things. I was working on a Ruby exercism. This morning alone in a coffeeshop and was just not getting anywhere. The problem was simple enough:. Write a function to convert from normal numbers to Roman Numerals.

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Using Postgresql's tsrange Range Type with Rails · Simon Taranto

http://blog.simontaranto.com/post/2013-12-31-using-postgresql-s-tsrange-range-type-with-rails.html

I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. Using Postgresqls tsrange Range Type with Rails. Dec 31, 2013 · 2 minute read. The Range Data Type. Postgres 9.2 and later supports range data types. Int4range Range of integer. Int8range Range of bigint. Numrange Range of numeric. Tsrange Range of timestamp without time zone. Tstzrange Range of timestamp with time zone. Daterange Range of date. And as of Rails 4.0.0 in pull request 7345. Casting range d...

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HATEOAS with Ember Data · Simon Taranto

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I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. HATEOAS with Ember Data. Mar 31, 2015 · 1 minute read. This post was originally published on thoughtbot’s blog. Ember Data introduced strong conventions. Around how to structure API responses. While these conventions allow us to move quickly, there are additional steps we can take to minimize the coupling between the front end and back end. Using concepts from HATEOAS. Let’s say we have a.

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Doing more than deploying code in a git post-receive hook · Simon Taranto

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I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. Doing more than deploying code in a git post-receive hook. Jan 23, 2014 · 5 minute read. Editing on the server. You know that terrible feeling you get when you’re editing code on the production server? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could easily deploy code from our command line to our VPS? Git push live master. A hacky solution that does not meet our requirement is to just ssh into the server and. In Rails s...

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N + 101: an example query optimization · Simon Taranto

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I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. N + 101: an example query optimization. Feb 14, 2014 · 4 minute read. FreshFinder is a location aware website that allows you to explore farmers’ markets across the US. Data is sourced from the USDA. And presented in a beautiful map-based interface. The full application architecture can be seen here. The code is available under the FreshFinder organization. The first thing we did to figure out what was s...

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It all comes together: Ruby, JS, and functional programming · Simon Taranto

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I am a product focused software engineer that enjoys working with small teams and motivated founders. It all comes together: Ruby, JS, and functional programming. Dec 11, 2013 · 4 minute read. Whenever you learn a new word, you inevitably see that word in the newspaper a day later. You’ve been seeing that word all along you just didn’t know it was there. I had a similar experience with programming yesterday when Ruby, Javascript, and functional programming. And reading Javascript Patterns. A sample Cloju...