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Things I Wish ActiveRecord Had After Using Ecto

Moving from one programming language to another is not hard as long as you have good knowledge of the concepts they share.

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SSL Pinning in iOS Swift Edition

A follow up on our article on the benefits of SSL pinning.

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How to Prepare Your Mobile App for the New iPhone X

iPhone X starts shipping in early November, so it’s time to roll up your sleeves. Apps that aren’t adjusted will run in compatibility mode.

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Superfast CSV Imports Using PostgreSQL's COPY Command

Dealing with various sources of data in web applications requires us to create services that will extract information from CSV, Excel, and other file types.

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Generate API Documentation from RSpec Examples with DOX

When developing an API, one should also write documentation so other developers know how to integrate with it. The problem is, nobody likes to write it.

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How We Build JSON APIs with Rails

A couple of months ago, we started a new project and decided to use Ember on the front and Rails as an API backend.

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Squeezing Webpack into Backend Frameworks

In order for a page to be fast, it’s a good idea to concatenate all your JavaScript assets into one file and all your CSS assets into another.

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Is Ruby Dead? Hell No! Analyzing RubyGems Stats for 2016

JavaScript frameworks are growing in number, new languages are developed faster than ever, and people are still talking about the death of Ruby and Rails.

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Becoming an iOS Developer Swiftly

So you want to learn the programming language everyone’s talking about, but don’t know where to look? We’ll give you a few pointers to kick-start you on your way to becoming a great Swift developer!

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Building Web Apps with GO

GO is a newcomer to the world of programming. Google's open source, statically typed programming language that provides you with some nice features.

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How to Efficiently Process Large Excel Files Using Ruby

Last year, I worked on a project in which I needed to parse and handle large .xlsx files. Some of those files had more than 200K rows.

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Whitelisting with the Lesser-Known #presence_in Method

Have a look at this hidden ActiveSupport #presence_in method that provides a convenient way to do whitelisting in just one line.