One peculiarity of Ruby that trips up a lot of programmers migrating from other languages is the fact that while it has true and false types, they don't share a […]
Async with Multiplexing
In our quest to coordinate asynchronous tasks, we've attempted a polling approach. Unfortunately, this strategy has some significant efficiency drawbacks. This time, we'll apply a technique known as "multiplexing", to …
Savon & SOAP APIs
Learn how to build well-tested interfaces to legacy SOAP-based legacy web APIs from your Ruby application, from guest chef Beth Haubert!
Aphorism to Empiricism
Join guest chef Kerri Miller for a whirlwind tour of three essential utilities for evaluating specific qualities of a Ruby codebase. See how to map out the dependencies in a …
Performance Testing – Scaling with Inputs
When we feed large quantities of data to our algorithms, we start having to worry about their performance scaling characteristics. Join guest chef Piotr Murach and learn how characterize algorithms …
Performance Testing – Staying Fast
Join guest chef Piotr Murach to learn how algorithm performance can be analyzed and characterized using "Big-O" notation. Then, be amazed at his tools for programmatically verifying our algorithmic performance!
Part 2: Telling Git Your Intentions
Guest Chef Nadia Odunayo returns to show us a little-known trick for incorporating newly-created files into an efficient Git patch workflow.
Part 1: Patching with Git
Have you ever had to wade through a large git commit full of miscellaneous unrelated changes? In today's episode, guest chef Nadia Odunayo is going to show you how you …
LIKE Injection in SQL
PostgresQL gives us powerful tools for enabling text search, but if we're not careful we can accidentally expose our app to attacks. Join guest chef Alex Piechowski, for a quick …
Roda – Part 2
Join guest Federico Iachetti to learn how to work with HTML views, in the lightweight but deceptively powerful Roda web toolkit.
BRUNCH for April 21, 2019
Leftshifting tests, hobby-oriented programming, and architecture mindset.