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| Rails Security Strategy Guide |
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| (book) How to increase Rails security with mini habits. | |
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| Videvo |
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| method_hooks |
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| XKCD-like picture distortion in Ruby and RMagick. | |
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| Tiny plugin to display large data sets easily. | |
| Summon |
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| Command-line tool that injects secrets as environment variables into any process. | |
| RubyConf Taiwan 2015 is calling for speakers |
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| Rubyconf Taiwan will be held on 9/11-9/12, it's now calling for papers. | |
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| Proper Puppet master-slave setup in Docker containers, for testing purposes. | |
| How Arel Converts Ruby Queries Into SQL Statements |
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| Low-level binging between ActiveRecord and Arel. | |
| Organizing Data: Replace Array with Object |
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| Truns Hash or Array options as configuration object. | |
| Refactoring to Reveal Rails Group_by |
jun 9
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| How and when to use group_by in rails. | |
| On OpenSCAP and Foreman |
jun 9
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| Run automated vulnerability audits on your foreman hosts. | |
| The Difference Between Throttling and Debouncing |
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| Ways to limit the amount of JavaScript you are executing based on DOM events for performance reasons. | |
| The Future Generation of CSS Selectors: Level 4 |
jun 10
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| The future of CSS selectors is also looking bright, with the Selectors Level 4 specification currently in Working Draft status. | |
| How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity |
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| When the “one process per request” part of the Rails model started to fall apart. | |
| What’s New in Rails 5 |
jun 11
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| Rails 5 is right around the corner (currently targeting Fall 2015) and there are some exciting features coming up. | |
| AngularJS Testing: Bootstrap Blocks, Routes, Events, and Animations |
jun 11
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| AngularJS makes testing the code written using the framework easier by supporting features like Dependency Injection. | |
| A Simple Gulp’y Workflow For Sass |
jun 11
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| Improve the compilation time with Gulp | |
| Continuous Acceleration (46m) |
jun 8
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| Why Continuous Everything Requires A Supply Chain Approach. | |
| RedDot Ruby Conf 2015 (25 videos) |
jun 10
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| Talks at RedDot Ruby Conf in Singapore. | |
| Supercharging page load (100 Days of Google Dev) (11m) |
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| Making simple changes to Service Worker can vastly improve the startup and load performance of your web site | |
In the last 2 companies where I worked, there was this recurring issue. Actually I noticed it for a while but for some reasons it became more obvious to me with time passing. The project management role is usually badly fulfilled.
But at some point, and even from the point of view of a developer, there is in projects the need for a dedicated person for doing some gardening. Yeah it's all about daily ungrateful clearing the bad weeds, making sure the soil is rich enough, and that the seeds are all planted where they should be planted, that soil pH is adequate for this or that variety. Having someone that is just doing moderation on projects also frees the productive people from lengthly and sometimes non technical meetings. It is the occasion to have someone that keeps track of specs, sometimes gather them or (re)write them down in a central place.
The problem in the transition from waterfall to agile, is that in the waterfall model there is a hierarchic feeling in the role of the project manager. The Management word into it is misleading. It leads the developers to frown upon it. I have the impression that in agile teams, project management is supposed to be taken care of organically by the dev teams, sometimes by the scrum master or whatever facilitator is there for enforcing the agile process. Or the product owner will be technical enough to fill up that role. More or less.
But the reality is that project grooming is a full time job that may have to be re-invented. It certainly should take in account developers creativity and pertinence in the match of the objectives with the technical realities. But it's necessary to have a person that is the reference on keeping track of the need and follow the quality process at all the stages. Well, at least when you begin to get many developers and many projects, and developers that work on many projects.
I think it's a question of scale. Companies with less than 30 people may never face that need because there is a natural fluidity internally and not that many projects. But when you get to 100 and you still don't have people dedicated to projects, then you can see developers burning out. Projects become lousy because nobody has time to write specs. You also can see emergence of hero coders that can by miracle make it all happen. But you will postpone the problem because heroes are not scalable and can even be toxic on the long run (as any experienced practitioner already knows).
Personally in my technical career I never liked the project managers that I met. But that is a long time I didn't meet any. It dates from an age where agile was not there yet. But now that I don't see them anymore, I feel that something is missing. It certainly exists in various places. And I can bet that many of them are as bad as they were in the last century. But maybe there is a new species of project curators out there that I didn't meet yet. I read about those in various places, but in my (small) world, this is still a mythical beast.
