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Written content to help you along your web development journey, without forgetting to have some fun along the way.
2 Reasons Why I Don't Use Mint.com For Budgeting
I've gone back to Mint.com a few times because it's supposed to be the best of the best. But I just can't get past these two issues.
Access A Deleted Class In A Rails Migration
Sometimes you need to get to a class that you have deleted or renamed within a migration file. Here's how you do it.
Rollback A Deleted Rails Database Migration
You got yourself into that pickle where you created a migration, migrated, deleted the migration, then tried to rollback. Here's how you get around it!
Animating Dots Using HTML5 Canvas
This builds on a previous example and brings some movement to our dots!
Make Smarter Decisions by Ignoring Sunk Costs
Making decisions about money or time you've already spent is illogical. Learn how to make smarter, more logical decisions.
Create a Multi-Colored, Dotted Grid with HTML5 Canvas
The wide world of canvas is open-ended. Here's a fun example to dig in and learn some of the basics of HTML5 canvas.
Parse a Web Page and Post to Slack Using Ruby
When another website is doing the heavy-lifting updating some content you want to keep up on, but there's no good integration with Slack, you can parse it yourself and post directly to a Slack channel.
Remote Work: You're Already Doing It
Recruiters these days seem hell-bent on knowing whether or not you've worked a remote job in the past. The truth is it doesn't matter. The truth is we're all already doing it.
Scrape and Parse A Webpage with Ruby (using Nokogiri)
A quick way to pull content from a URL and parse it using Ruby.
Add Rake To Any Project
Rake is an awesome tool. You may want to use it in a non-Ruby project or a project that isn't configured for it.