3 Features I’m Excited for in Rails 8
Ruby on Rails has consistently set the standard for web application frameworks or put in a way that doesn’t make me sound like a half-dead suit, it’s awesome and a pleasure to code in. As a seasoned...
View ArticleApple’s Big Brother Now
I’m sure we all remember the legendary Big Brother Super Bowl commercial in which Apple portrayed IBM as a Orwellian Big Brother figure to be smashed by its plucky Cupertino rival. Fast forward to 2024...
View ArticleFly.io VS Render VS Dokku – Fight!
There’s never been an easier time to get your application up and running on world-class level hosting providers and there a number of great providers available. Today, we’re diving into a comparative...
View ArticlePWAs in 2024
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have been a topic of keen interest and heated debate for years now and indeed a frequent topic of discussion on Coder Radio. Overall the development of technologies that...
View ArticleBurn Book Review
In the world of technology commentary, few names are as revered—or feared—as Kara Swisher’s. Her brand new book Burn Book is a testament to her sharp wit and decades spent deep in the tech industry....
View ArticleHow to Create a Private Ruby Gem
Ruby Gems are the default way to share code among Ruby projects and developers. While public Gems can be found and used via RubyGems.org, there are occasions when you might need to create a private...
View ArticleAlice for Construction Automation
Alice for Automaton: Bringing the Future to Your Construction Sites As a seasoned software engineer and enthusiast in the construction tech space, I’ve seen firsthand how the industry often lags in...
View ArticleMinitest: Small But Mighty
I was recently browsing the Rails sub-Reddit and was surprised to see how much flak Minitest was getting from the community; the stated favorite seemed to be RSpec by a wide margin. While RSpec has...
View ArticleOpen Source’s Funding Fiasco
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we as a community and industry can make sure open-source projects keep getting the love they deserve. It’s no secret that the traditional funding model of donations...
View ArticleSunday Funday: Pygame For Kids
Hello, young coders and coding mentors / parents! Today we’re diving into an exciting first project perfect for kids based on Pygame – building a Pong clone. Pong is a classic two-player game where...
View ArticleIntro to API Driven Automation
Automation has become a key factor in improving efficiency and streamlining business operations. Organizations that effectively leverage automation find themselves with a competitive advantage over...
View ArticleHappy 20th Rails!
As many of you might know Rails is now twenty years old; that’s two years older than it needs to be to able to be executed by the state or sent to kill people on the other-side of the world in the US,...
View ArticleETL: Extract
As organizations grow and evolve, so do their technology stacks and the quantity of import data being generated by those tools. Unfortunately, it’s all too common for firms to be unable to leverage the...
View ArticleSyncing Prod & Staging Data With Dokku
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably faced the classic problem of everything working swimmingly on your test / staging environment, but the end users hitting some weird issue on production. This...
View ArticleETL: Transform
In my previous post, we explored the first step of the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process—Extraction. Today, we move on to the heart of ETL: Transformation. Turns out your legacy data is really...
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Surfing the WSL Wave
With Summer coming to a close I decided to take another surf on the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) wave and in short was not disappointed. Technically there are two flavors of WSL, WSL 1 and WSL 2....
View ArticleETL: Load
Last week we discussed the transform phase of ETL and now it’s time to wrap it up with the Load phase. The Load phase is where transformed data is deposited into its target destination, whether that’s...
View ArticlePallet Town: Rails Concerns
As you dive deeper into Ruby on Rails, you might notice your models and controllers starting to bloat with methods and logic. This not only makes your code harder to read but also tougher to maintain....
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