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Simple Features that Set Emacs Apart
January 19, 2009 - I started using Emacs as my primary text editor about three years ago. After two weeks, it quit being a difficult experience. When I joined Viget and started programming in Ruby again after a stint in PHP, I shifted to TextMate, but that didn't last long. There are features in…
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Advice, Trends, and Resources for People Entering Web Careers in 2009
May 11, 2009 - Many have us have spoken to people who will soon be entering careers in web design related fields this year, and this led us to have discussions with each other about what we thought was important for those people to know. Each of us had different advice to share based on each…
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Around "Hello World" in 30 Days
June 2, 2010 - I’ll say this up front: I love my job. I love the web. I love Rails. And I love working here at Viget. But lately, I’ve gone through periods where web development feels a bit stale. Hugh Macleod has a great post called Beware of Turning Hobbies into Jobs that sheds a bit of…
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Anatomy of a Rails Rumble Project
October 21, 2010 - Last weekend, two teams of Viget people (Hounds of Gore and Chewie & Han) competed in the 2010 Rails Rumble, and we all came out richer for it. My team built GitWrite and I wanted to share our experience. The new jazz We've been using Rails 3 at Viget for some projects and…
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Convert a Ruby Method to a Lambda
April 26, 2011 - Last week I tweeted: Convert a method to a lambda in Ruby: lambda(&method(:events_path)). OR JUST USE JAVASCRIPT. It might not be clear what I was talking about or why it would be useful, so allow me to elaborate. Say you’ve got the following bit of Javascript: var…
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A Better Way to Add a ‘selected’ Class to Links in Rails
August 8, 2012 - Adding a "selected" CSS class to navigation items (usually when they match the current page or section of a site) is a required step in almost every build-out. For some reason, it always seems to be a pain. There are plenty of ways to go about this, but most of them tend to be…
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My Boulder Summer at Viget
August 12, 2013 - Starting at Viget When Viget notified me that I would be a summer 2013 intern at its Boulder, Colorado office, I was incredibly excited. I was also plenty nervous since I had never lived more than two hours from home before. It didn't even seem real to me until I was…
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How to Implement an Enumerated Type in Rails
May 21, 2014 - Have you ever wanted to use an enumerated type in your Rails app? After years of feature requests, Rails 4.1 finally added them: a simple implementation that maps strings to integers. But what if you need something different?On a recent project, I implemented a survey,…
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A Project Management Approach to Hiring
June 12, 2014 - Having just started as the team’s newest Project Manager, I’ve been reflecting a bit on the hiring process here at Viget. After six years at my previous company and being intimately involved in hiring, it had been a while since I went through the process as an interviewee. The…
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Creating Seed Files from Your Database with Sprig-Reap
June 18, 2014 - Recently, Lawson and Ryan launched Sprig, a gem for seeding Rails applications. Sprig seed files are easy to write, but they do take some time -- time which you may not have enough of. We wanted to generate seed files from records already in the database, and we received…