changemewtf

"It's not working!"

1. Read the ERRORS
2. Read the LOGS
3. Output related info with puts and PRINT
4. Read the DOCS
5. Ask an EXPERT

Follow this process every time!

warpech

Web Components as successor to jQuery

This article is a homage to jQuery - a library that once was a great boost for the productiveness of thousands of web developers around the world. In the upcoming times, the benefit of using it will drop as web developers start to switch to the web standards, including Web Components.

Status quo

As of early 2014, current state of interactive web development heavily relies on established web standards - HTML, CSS and JavaScript, all of which have been subject to consistent iterative improvement during the last few years, with the support of all major web browser vendors.

As a report shows, 57.8% of all websites use JavaScript, of which stunning 93.2% use the jQuery library to enhance the development (source). There is a long tail of other libraries and micro frameworks that are being used instead, or in compliment to jQuery, but none of them has gotten close to the popularity of t

jamesyang124

#!/bin/ruby --verion => 2.0.0-p353

Self

In Ruby, self is a special variable that always references the current object.

• Inside class or module definition, self refer to the Class or Module object.
• Inside instance method, self refer to future instance object.
• Inside class method, self refer to the class.i

phlco

Installing Tools

1. Install [HipChat][hipchat]

• [Upgrade to OS X Mavericks][osx]
• Install [Google Chrome][chrome]
• Check to make sure you don't have RVM or Macports by running this command from your terminal
  • bash <(curl -s https://gist.github.com/phlco/8358292/raw/b6e4df4efc7b7973cb5566e89c57672380062074/uninstalls.sh)ds
• [Install Homebrew][brew] (The command is at the bottom of the page) * Type: brew doctor and resolve any warnings or errors that come up before moving on.
  • Then: brew install git rbenv ruby-build rbenv-gem-rehash postgres

phlco

InstallFest!

This is an automated version of our installfest.

Please paste the following into your terminal prompt

bash <(curl -sL http://j.mp/NplF2o)

jvns

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

adaugherity

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

require 'base64'

data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten

diogomonica

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

FIRST_NAME = 'FIRST_NAME'
LAST_NAME = 'LAST_NAME'
PHONE = 'PHONE'
EMAIL = '[email protected]'

PARTY_SIZE = 2
SCHEDULE_RANGE = { :start_time => '19:00', :end_time => '20:30' }

scotthmurray

Where to Post your Data Journalism Jobs

Update: This has moved. An updated and maintained version is here: http://alignedleft.com/resources/data-vis-jobs

I posed this question on Twitter:

If you wanted to hire a “data journalist” to support an existing reporting team with data parsing + vis, how would you find that person?

I've documented the responses here. Basically, there seems to be only one job site specifically for data journalists (so far!), and several others, depending on which audience you want to reach (e.g., more focused on development, data vis, or journalism).

jameslafa

ActiveAdmin.register Project do

  # Don't forget to add the image attribute (here thumbnails) to permitted_params
  controller do
    def permitted_params
      params.permit project: [:title, :summary, :description, :thumbnail, :date, :url, :client_list, :technology_list, :type_list]
    end
  end

  form do |f|