Euruko 2016 - Ruby is dead, long live Ruby!

It has almost been three weeks since we came back from a wonderful trip to Sofia. Thanks to Mikamai we had the opportunity to attend the 2016 Euruko conference.

Wasting Time TDDing The Wrong Things

When learning TDD, you usually start by testing small, individual classes. Exercises like these are designed to get you into the workflow quickly. When you transition from small exercises to real-world work, however, things quickly get hairy.

Creating Machine Learning Systems with JRuby

Paul Goetze explains how to use JRuby to create a machine learning algorithm using Ruby.

The two most common vulnerabilities in Rails

Although it’s quite safe to use, it’s not perfectly secure. It’s unfortunately far too easy for a developer to introduce vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails when not paying attention.

Tips for Writing Fast Rails

Rails is a powerful framework. You can write a lot of features in a short period of time. In the process you can easily write code that performs poorly.

Be Kind

Confident in my work, I deployed the changes, closed my laptop, and drove out of town for a weekend of camping with friends. I had just arrived when my phone rang. It was my project lead, Kevin.

Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in production for France TV

Are Elm and Phoenix/Elixir ready for prime time? I'll let you decide: they were both used in live during the main French political show called "L'émission Politique" to help generate a word cloud base.

Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

I've seen developers struggle for years with the huge mismatch between relational database models and traditional object models. And all the solutions they come up with seem to make the problem worse.

Procodile: 🐊

Run Ruby/Rails processes in the background on Linux servers with ease.