Ryan Abel on Atomic Spin

Adding Google Charts to your Active Admin Application

It's surprisingly easy to use and extend Active Admin. Adding charts to custom Active Admin views is an example of what it can do. Here's how.

Developer Tools

Rails, Active Record & Postgres – Optimizing Deletions

Active Record is a powerful tool, but there are occasions where letting the database handle work for us is the correct answer.

Development Practices

Four Tips To Keep Refactoring Efficient

Four tips for efficient refactoring: have good test coverage, refactor on a main branch, keep tests green often, remember your purpose.

Ember.js

Three Reasons Ember.js Closure Actions Rule

Highlights some of what makes closure actions so awesome—improved syntax, easier data propagation, and added action currying

Development Practices

Managing Multiple Releases in a Production Application

Comparing two Agile workflows for managing multiple releases in a production application: Release Branches vs. Feature Flags

Ember.js

Retrying Network Requests in Ember.js: Part 2

How to retrieve HTTP network requests from local storage and retry them in Ember.js.

Ember.js

Retrying Network Requests in Ember.js: Part 1

How to intercept HTTP network requests and store those requests in local storage using Ember.js.

Personal Optimization

How I Conquered My Fear of Meetings

A meeting isn't a test of my credibility or intelligence, it's a collaboration. With a little preparation and self-awareness, I can relax and contribute.

Culture

Working at a Socially Responsible Company

One of the aspects I like the most about where I work that I feel like flies under the radar is how socially responsible we are as an organization.

Personal Optimization

The Job Hunter’s Guide to Writing a Good Autobiography

I spent a lot of time reviewing autobiographies and found there a few things that make the great ones stand out.

Ember.js

Two Techniques for Keeping Your Ember.js Project Clean

I've seen how an Ember app grows and transforms as it continues to grow. These are the things I would keep in mind while my Ember project progressed.

Ember.js

Using Query Parameters in Ember.js

Ember realizes the importance of query parameters, and it has built a great way to interface with them.

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