Hi there, thanks for visiting. I love reading technical blogs and owe it to them for most of my working knowledge. And of course, Stackoverflow :)I've always wanted to contribute back to the community that has given me so much. This blog is my
Hi there, thanks for visiting. I love reading technical blogs and owe it to them for most of my working knowledge. And of course, Stackoverflow :)I've always wanted to contribute back to the
Our company's recruitment platform evolved from a Rails application into a classic SPA app. The Rails app serves as a RESTful API backend while the frontend app is built on React/Flux (with
Automated Interview Scheduling At AlphaSights, we built an internal applicant tracking system and one of its coolest features is the ability to allow a candidate to pick an interview timeslot based on the
In 2010, I was in Rome with Jacky, following a night tour. There was a brief mention of a martyr Giordano Bruno when we passed by a certain square. Today I watched the
I've been living in New York for almost 2 months, but last week was the first time I spent a day out on Saturday, just walking around downtown. Eventually my feet brought me
I'm a developer. I spend most of my time coding features for stakeholders and other developers. Some part of the day is spent challenging and filtering feature requests too. I have never felt
It's Chinese New Year tomorrow, it marks the first day of the year for the lunar calendar. It's a time of family reunion and hope for the year ahead. I hope to send
Okay, this blog was originally on Jekyll on a custom bootstrap based theme. It's ugly, but it's proudly home made and I always 'had plans' to improve it. Until I saw this pretty
config.assets.cache_store and Rails 4 Alex Mccaw's post on faster deploys on Heroku got us pretty psyched up. We punched our memcached credentials in: # We use Heroku and Memcachier # This doesn't
In our workplace app, most models are used by different code paths (e.g. a customer and internal user creating the same resource). Using attr_accessible, all we could do is to permit
I use Rails and Postgresql at work. We have a dataset that's growing fast, large and frequently transformed. This becomes a pain when there's a need to pull the data from remote and