I’ve been reflecting on how my current team is both super-productive and fun to work with. One key element of this is that we recently started to practice mob programming. We did this organically without actually knowing what the practice was, but we have since learned how to apply it in certain situations. The results have been extremely positive.
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Author: Matt Nedrich
An Introduction to PostgreSQL Materialized Views
Our team recently found itself in a situation where we needed to write a database query to:
- Union several tables together
- Filter out some rows
- Sort the unioned set different ways
This was going to be a very expensive and slow query. Read more on An Introduction to PostgreSQL Materialized Views…
Preparing to Launch a Rewrite for a Public-Facing Website
Launching a rewrite of an existing public-facing website is an exciting, yet tricky process. It’s exciting because you know that you’re working on a well-tested and market-validated idea. You already have users—something that new companies and products need to work hard to obtain. Read more on Preparing to Launch a Rewrite for a Public-Facing Website…
Should You Use React Storybook?
Our team recently started using React Storybook for a large React app that we have been building. In this post, I’ll share what we learned and hopefully encourage you to consider incorporating Storybook into your next React project. Read more on Should You Use React Storybook?…
Testing React App SEO using Fetch as Google
When developing a website, you might be interested in understanding how well search engines can crawl and understand it. Google offers a tool called Fetch as Google that can help answer that question.
React and TypeScript – The Basics
React is great, and with TypeScript, it can be even better.
If you haven’t used TypeScript with React, you might be wondering how much work is required to get started, and how React development with TypeScript is different than JavaScript. I’m going to address these questions, covering everything I would have liked to find in one place when I was getting started with TypeScript—specifically, what is required to set up a React/TypeScript project, and how some of the basic React/Redux type definitions work. Read more on React and TypeScript – The Basics…
Getting Started With React Native – Easy or Hard?
I’ve been watching React Native for a while. The idea of using a React (and Redux) approach to developing cross-platform-ish native apps is really appealing. Since I have no React Native experience, I wanted to understand how much work is required to get started. Read more on Getting Started With React Native – Easy or Hard?…
TypeScript Linting with TSLint – Setup, Configuration, & Rules
A good static analysis pipeline can be very helpful. Linting is among the most common and helpful types of static analysis for JavaScript. It can help catch bugs, enforce uniform code style, and prevent overly complex code. Read more on TypeScript Linting with TSLint – Setup, Configuration, & Rules…
React Testing – Jest or Mocha?
Every React project is a little different. This can make choosing the right testing setup difficult.
Both Jest and Mocha seem to be popular within the React community. There are tons of folks using Jest, though others seem to prefer Mocha (for example, the Enzyme docs and examples use Mocha). So which one should you choose, and does it even matter?
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Parsing Excel Files with Ruby
In this post, I will review options for parsing Excel files using Ruby. I’ll discuss the different types of Excel files and introduce some of the Ruby libraries that exist for working with them. Note that I focus mostly on reading Excel files in this post, but there is some discussion around writing/updating them as well.
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