What are ruby contracts and how we can use them?
What are Ruby Contracts? The gem author defines them as follows: Contracts which let you clearly and beautifully express how your code behaves, while freeing you from writing tons of boilerplate, defensive code. You can think of contracts...
De Código, Café y Cervezas 08 – Web Services
Heriberto Pérez, Alejandro Espinoza, Víctor Velázquez Ingenieros de Software en MagmaLabs comparten otro episodio De código, Café y Cervezas con temas de tecnología, desarrollo de software, entrevistas, y eventos. Invitado Especial:...
8 Tips For Bootstrap
In this post, I’m going to give you some quick tips while you work with bootstrap.
How Accurate Are Your Estimations?
Have you ever failed to deliver a task due to a tight deadline? The chances are that your clients were unhappy, and you were working ridiculous amounts of hours, this could’ve happened because the underestimation of the amount...
Can’t keep up? A simple guide to give feedback.
I've always considered that it's a good habit to, from time to time, give feedback to our peers. Although it seems simple, giving effective feedback, like all skills, needs learning, practice, and patience. Feedback is praising...
The Rubber Duck Effect
Food for thought For me, on a normal day at the office, I usually take my coffee, I have my current project's standup and I get to work on the features; out of this, in my "free" (pomodoro) time I like to stand up, walk...
GoConvey and Deaf Grandma
If you have used Ruby on Rails, you may be familiar with Rspec, a gem that allows us to test your Ruby code in a very intuitive way. In Go, we have GoConvey: a library that allows us to write self-documenting tests for our Go code...
Custom Error Marshaling to JSON in Go
In this post I want to go through an example of data marshaling in the Go language. The example starts with this snippet: package main import ( "encoding/json" "errors" "fmt" ) type AModel struct { Name...
6 tools to keep your coder mind sharp
A few years ago, I started looking for tools that would help me keep my coder mind in shape. I found a few to practice mathematical problem-solving, brain exercises, code performance optimization, etcetera. My current list comprises...
Test your rake tasks
I’ll show you how to test a rake task in a simple Sinatra Bootstrap project. Here we will put YML files into the JSON format. A few days ago I was pairing with a coworker, and we needed to convert a YML file into the JSON format...