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Brief

You cannot do it on your own. Whether you're buildings products or a consultancy, you need developers. You can't afford to outbid everyone else and, even if you do, another company will up the ante in six months. You can't rely on your network or universities to deliver fully ready Rails devs. Professional recruiters are no answer.

Your only real option is to build them. That's the situation LivingSocial faced, and in this session, we'll share lessons learned from the design, recruitment, and beginning months of Hungry Academy. Let's discuss:

Recruiting applicants
Evaluating aptitude

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Nathan Weizenbaum » @nex3

Improved swipe gestures plugin for jQuery

What was changed (compared to the original v0.1.2):

Don’t modify the default settings internally.
Merge the options recursively (deep copy) so that the custom threshold values actually get used.
Allow overriding the options globally through $.fn.swipe.options.
Use namespaced jQuery events (using the swipe namespace) instead of DOM2 addEventListener to prevent errors in old IEs.
Simplified and optimized code.
Changed swipeLeft and swipeRight functions to be called within the context of the bound element. Thanks, @kswedberg!

	// Use the animate.css animations

	function animate(element, effect, delay, callback) {
	// Set a delay if needed
	var animation = setTimeout(function () {
	// Add the animation effect with classes
	$(element).addClass('animate ' + effect);
	// Check if the elemenr has been hidden to start with to prevent FOUC
	if ($(element).css('visibility') == 'hidden') {
	// If it has, show it (after the class has been added)

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	#
	# A quick script to dump an overview of all the open issues in all my github projects
	#

	require 'octokit'
	require 'awesome_print'
	require 'rainbow'