Interestings

Earth day special: How to dry your hands with one paper towel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FMBSblpcrc

Interestings

a jQuery plugin introduces regression

A plugin introduces a regression. Wait to upgrade jQuery 2.0.x.

http://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2013/04/jquery-migrate-is-sink-too.html

jQuery 2.0

It's out! And it dropped support for IE versions > 9!

Full release blog post here: http://blog.jquery.com/2013/04/18/jquery-2-0-released/

Also, as JT had mentioned, there is a security hole that was introduced in 2.0. Hold off until this is fixed!

Interestings

Date.yesterday is a lie

Rails provides a handy 'Date.yesterday' method. This effectively uses 'Time.zone.today' to calculate yesterday as per the configured timezone.

Ruby's 'Date.today' method uses the system's timezone via a call to localtime(). Therefore, if your Rails app is configured in UTC and you live on the West Coast, tests that assert that 'yesterday < today' will start failing at around 5pm.

Interestings

Sending a JSON array in the POST body

When you send an array in your post body, there is a middleware that will put that array into params[:_json]. This is because params has to be a hash.

Interestings

Ruby method cache article

James Golick wrote an interesting article on MRI's method cache and how difficult it is to write software that uses it effectively.

http://jamesgolick.com/2013/4/14/mris-method-caches.html

Google Mirror: API for Google Glass

https://developers.google.com/glass/about

"The Healthy Programmer" book in Google Drive

"The Healthy Programmer" by Joe Kutner, same guy whose video was watched for Monday's lunch video. Full of amusing chapter titles.

Events

Tuesday: Pair Exchange

Interestings

0 duration != no animation

UIView documentation for animateWithDuration:animations: says: "If you specify a negative value or 0, the changes are made without animating them." but specifying a zero duration is not the same as not using animations at all. Specifically, constraints still animate even if the duration is 0.

Interestings

Working With Ruby Threads Book

Jesse Storimer (Working with Unix Processes & Working With TCP Sockets) released a new book on threading with Ruby.

You don't know try

If you thought, ActiveSupport :try caught any NoMethodError, you were just as wrong as me: it does not raise only on nil and NilClass.