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[...] : setting up the fastly-rails gem. Rails setup Install the fastly-rails gem: Add the Fastly environment variables to your .env file: And add the Fastly configuration file: Make sure you set these [...]

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[...] Five months ago, we announced Hound, a hosted service that reviews code for style violations and comments about them on your GitHub pull requests. Since then, over 3,000 users have [...]

[...] Objective-C API in Swift, but let’s see how we can abstract this SDK and sprinkle in some Functional Programming concepts to make it easier to use. Connecting to Dropbox After we have installed the [...]

[...] Last time, we looked at using concepts from Functional Programming and Generics to parse JSON received from a server into a User model. The final result of [...]

[...] previous posts (first post, second post) about parsing JSON in Swift we saw how to use functional programming concepts and generics to make JSON decoding consise and readable. We left off last time [...]

[...] , we can use a functional concept to simplify this for us. Enter, fmap (Quick note for Functional Programming nerds: we’re really just talking about fmap in the context of Optional here. I know this [...]

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[...] on writing webapps in Clojure using Liberator. We started using Liberator as the backend for a JSON API and have had a good experience with it so far. So, I wanted to share a little bit about how to [...]

[...] webapps with Liberator in Clojure. This time I want to look at how we chose to integrate our JSON API with PostgreSQL. Without trying to overgeneralize, there seems to be a few common ways to [...]

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[...] days and drew conclusions regarding which aspects we should try to validate with some user research before the user interviews and problem / solution tests. Day 3 – Prototype I spent the [...]

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[...] Google’s Material Design Video in Keynote. I was impressed with his ability to recreate complex animations in what seemed like a very simple program. Using his Keynote file as a guideline, I dug in [...]

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