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Git is a framework for creating a Version Control System - Girders

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Git Is a Framework for Creating a Version Control System. Git is a low-level library. All development and deployment environments differ, so build your own development work flow system on top of git to build your best work flow environment. The git version control system became hugely popular once it was introduced, and along with Github. Achieved a dominant role in open source to enterprise development. Package also adds a convention of work flow and best practices for a team using git. You need to dete...

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REST API's are Crud - Girders

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REST API's Are Crud. Promotes CRUD. CRUD is for databases, not applications. Databases generally have four operations to a set of data: Create, Read, Update, and Delete; these four operations are known by the acronym CRUD. An SQL-based relational database (like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) have 4 cooresponding statements:. Crud As A Service. Rails promotes this architecture from the top by defining REST-ful Routes on each table-resource as the method of running your application, and by extension your externa...

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Setup Rails 4.1, Spring, Rspec, and Guard - Girders

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Setup Rails 4.1, Spring, Rspec, and Guard. Rails 4.1 allows us to use Spring. Commands quickly by running your application in the background and avoiding the rails startup time penalty. It took me a little while to find this information, so here is my guide to setting this up. I’m using the Rspec. Testing framework with the Guard. Event watcher as the test runner. Spring allows us to watch the test run almost immediately after hitting save of a file in the editor. Rails new myapp -T. After we open the.

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Allen Fair (allenfair) | Keybase

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Person. Programmer. All around geek. Philadelphia, PA, USA. Allenfair has an invitation available. If you know allenfair, you can ask them for an invitation to Keybase. Keybase login # or signup. Keybase id allenfair keybase id allenfair@twitter keybase id afair@github # etc :-). Keybase follow allenfair keybase encrypt allenfair -m "a secret msg". The new Keybase filesystem. Pst My CC is 4147.". Yourname cc.txt cp /finances.xls . # any public, signed files? Here are more examples.

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About Myself... - Girders

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Should I write this in the first or third person? Hey stalker, thanks for dropping by. This page was created specifically for you! I am a software engineer living in the Philadelphia suburbs. Sure, I have a bunch of other hobbies; but we’re here to talk tech. So you can see I was immediately hooked. After moving to NYC in 1997, I took a job working at theglobe.com. An early community website offering chat, forums, email, clubs, and news feeds. It was a great group of people, I learned a lot from them...

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Energizing Creativity with Ambient Noise Generators - Girders

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Energizing Creativity With Ambient Noise Generators. Coffee house murmurs are all the rage these days for workers trying to get into the zone while working independently. Last year, New York Times published How the Hum of a Coffee Shop Can Boost Creativity. Which explored the phenomenon. I’ve recently tried out Coffitivity. So I did some searching and found a few web sites that used different takes on the idea. So check out these options the next time you want the energy of ambient café sounds to inspire...

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Blog Archive - Girders

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Energizing Creativity with Ambient Noise Generators. Setup Rails 4.1, Spring, Rspec, and Guard. Git is a framework for creating a Version Control System. REST API’s are Crud. Don’t RFC-Validate Email Addresses. Scaling PostgreSQL with Pgpool and PgBouncer. How Queuing with Resque works. PostgresNoSQL: The Hidden NoSQL in PostgreSQL. Open Source Win and Fail. Rails 3.1 Application Architecture. Loading system libraries in Ruby on Rails (v3) Applications. Changing postgres user info on OS X 10.6.

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Don't RFC-Validate Email Addresses - Girders

http://www.girders.org/blog/2013/01/31/dont-rfc-validate-email-addresses

Don't RFC-Validate Email Addresses. Many applications require users to register or enter their email addresses. As good, standards-compliant developers, we want to validate and accept these email addresses using RFC standards. We think it will help us in the future, and make our app a shining beacon of usability to be admired. Before then, we had the UUCP ” bang path. 8221; notation, which lists each machine “hop” in the route to deliver the mail. Anatomy of an email address. Usually of the format:.

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Scaling PostgreSQL With Pgpool and PgBouncer. Deploying PostgreSQL in a high-demand environment requires reliability and scalability. PostgreSQL’s ecosystem offers the tools you need to build out a robust database system. This guide offers a high-level description of tools used to build a high-availability, scalable, fault-tolerant service. These tools are explained:. Database with Streaming Replication. Multipurpose connect proxy for PostgreSQL. Connection pooler for PostgreSQL. Read on →. Read on →.