Hello World - Rebooting this Blog
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
Damon Aw
Hi, I'm Damon. I'm a Web Developer who loves Science, likes running and dabbles in a little bit of photography.
Killing CORS Preflight Requests on a React SPA
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
Using Service Accounts to act on behalf of your Google Apps Users
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
How could I miss Giordano Bruno?
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
Brooklyn War Memorial
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
Today I felt the joy Developers give to people
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
A Happy New Year email to my team
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
Now on Ghost
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
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
Experience Upgrading to Strong Params
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
Making PostgreSQL run faster
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