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
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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