Much of my development involves reviewing and reading code, both formally and informally. You will only write code once, might modify it a few times, but you will read it over and over. I found code reviews are just a formalization of this code reading process. I’ve noticed a few different types of code reviews, …
Tag: development
Getting Started With iOS Development [Link]
Good post by Stewart Gleadow on how to get started with iOS. I’ve had the Big Nerd Ranch iOS guide recommended by someone else too.
Speeding up Capistrano Deployments from 6 Minutes to 9 Seconds by Skipping Asset Compilation
By skipping assets:precompile when assets haven’t changed, I’ve reduced my deployment time from 6 minutes to 9.6 seconds. I’ve been practicing semi-continuous deployments on Chirk HR since I’ve started (where I am deploying to production as soon as code is useful). I’ve been having a problem with the asset pipeline though because the assets:precompile task …
What I’m excited about with ChiliProject 3.0.0
On February 6th ChiliProject 3.0.0 was released. This marks the third major release for ChiliProject and the stabilization of the past 6 months of development. The 3.0 series is my favorite release so far. It finally brings in some features that I’ve been wanting to use for at least 4 years. The full release details …
Rails Plugin Reloading with Passenger
I use passenger in development now. Having all of my applications ready to launch at any time makes it easier to test cross application integrations. One problem with passenger is that even in development mode, Rails plugins are cached from request to request. This means if you edit a plugin, you won’t see the changes …