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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.

Mar 13, 2016

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!

Mar 08, 2016

Animating Dots Using HTML5 Canvas

This builds on a previous example and brings some movement to our dots!

Feb 27, 2016

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.

Feb 27, 2016

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.

Feb 26, 2016

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.

Feb 24, 2016

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.

Feb 23, 2016

Scrape and Parse A Webpage with Ruby (using Nokogiri)

A quick way to pull content from a URL and parse it using Ruby.

Feb 23, 2016

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.

Feb 22, 2016

Remote Work: All Or Nothing

Most of the time, life is about balance. But there are some things that you just can't do halfway.

Feb 19, 2016