Understanding Elixir OTP Applications - Part 1, Distribution

I love Elixir. Coming from Ruby I find myself in familiar territory with the syntax yet also rejoice at some of the things Elixir does differently. I'm doing a series on Elixir and Erlang's principals and how they work underneath. This post will cover distributed systems and processes.

Joe Woodward

Rack, The Underbelly Of Every Great Ruby Web App

Rack is used for practically every framework that runs on Ruby yet many Rails developers don't really understand what it is or how it works. Understanding rack can make these frameworks feel less daunting. It's surprisingly easy to understand when you take a look at it.

Joe Woodward

What makes a great developer?

I've worked with a lot of developers, many good, some great, and a few exceptional. Developers that shine all share similar traits and those traits are often not directly related to code.

Joe Woodward

Using ActionText in Rails 6

ActionText brings rich text editing into Rails. ActionText includes the Trix, "A rich text editor for everyday writing", from the team over at Basecamp. Trix is an improved WYSIWYG style editor that gives us more control over what happens when the user presses a key.

Joe Woodward

Tmux Your Life Away and Come Back to it Later

If you're ever running commands on a remote machine you should absolutely be running it in a detachable session so it doesn't die if your connection drops. Chose tmux, here's why!

Joe Woodward

Using Dagger Hilt In Android Applications

How to use dagger-hilt to improve your workflow when working on Android applications

Anu Karounwi

Transparency - The Advantage is Clear

Our clients see right through us - and we wouldn't have it any other way. We pull back the curtains to give our customers an unobstructed view of our daily operations.

Jeff Flynn

An Easy Way to Make Reactive Android Pin Code Feature with Secure Data

Here is an easy way to make a reactive Android pin code feature with secure data.

Him Sama

An Easy Way to Secure Your Sensitive Data on Android

Here is an easy way to secure your sensitive data on Android

Him Sama

Dealing with Legacy Gems You Still Need to Use

When you work with a system developed over the years, you will ultimately encounter a challenge - how to solve dependencies between the pieces you put together. Sometimes you need to use two gems but they depend on different versions of another gem, so you will see in the console e.g. foo -> requires bar ~> 1.0.0, baz -> requires ~> bar 2.1.0. In this post I will propose a solution to this problem, allowing us to use two versions of a gem in our project.

Witek Muszyński