Notify an Ember.js app that a deployment has happened
The approach with refreshing regular web applications after deployment is pretty straightforward, you click on a link, it goes to the server, server renders ...
The approach with refreshing regular web applications after deployment is pretty straightforward, you click on a link, it goes to the server, server renders ...
I really like Heroku for fast deployments and everything they offer for a small Ruby on Rails or node.js apps. It’s so easy to deploy a web app there, and it...
If you are using ActiveRecord and keeping your models pretty thin and properly normalized, you will surely reach for the very nice has_one relationship. It’s...
We have read enough about TDD and it’s demise in the last year. Since David published his post about how TDD is dead there have been a couple of flame wars c...
In an average month, there is a lot of stuff you will have to do. Stuff like paying the bills, taking care of inventory for home/company, budgeting, and your...
If you are only an occasional writer, as I surely am, you don’t have to look at the analytics screen all the time. It’s a really nice thing to look at the re...
I was working with my dad in the orchard last Saturday, and after a while we sat down, had a beer and a great discussion. It’s the discussion that pushed me ...
When you start doing something, especially if that something is brand new to you, there is always a dark cloud of failing hovering over you. The probability ...
Is your Ruby on Rails application slow for end users? Maybe you are sending a lot of data through the network. As we rarely test performance on our basic ser...
Two months ago I found out that Nathan Barry has a 24 hour product contest, in which he aimed to produce a real product, in the form of an email course, in 2...
While reading a lot of stuff about freelancing, consulting and business in general, I stumble upon a lot of suggestions and advices to niche down, become a s...
I’ve recently read a great book, recommended by Merlin Rebrovic in one of his blog posts. I’ve always seen design as something abstract, something you need t...
I never wondered about this topic, but going through some old newsletters I signed up for and never followed through, I found a really great email course on ...
I tend to read a lot, averaging at least one book per week. Remembering back, I think the reading started when I was a kid, during the war, being in a shelte...
I have recently read the book Zero to One by Peter Thiel and it really changed my overview on the business world, and the projects/products I want to work on...
I have a few quite obnoxious habits and a few really good ones. I have tried to get rid of some of them, and succeeded in most cases, but some or most of the...
Ever since I first heard of Ember.js (even before the 1.0 days), I’ve been wanting to learn it. But the learning curve of the framework always veered me off ...
It’s the beginning of a new year and the best time to look back on the one behind us. As writing reviews of the past times is generally a good thing, because...
In the last few weeks, I have been approached by a couple of people who are interested in learning Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails. And for their sake, and for my ...
As the title says, I attended my first (and definitely not last) Coderetreat. And we also made history, because it was the first one in Croatia. It was organ...