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Splitting an open source project in two with Git submodules

How and why we split the doorkeeper project into different rubygems.
Tute Costa
June 2, 2015
- Open Source
- Good Code
Keeping the Front-End Modular with BEM

Using BEM when naming your classes makes being object-oriented easy and fits right in with MVC projects.
Connie Chan
February 24, 2015
- CSS
- BEM
- Sass
- Good Code
- Design
Lazy Refactoring

Look over our shoulder as we refactor and optimize a set of queries.
Joël Quenneville and Matt Sumner
November 7, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Collaboration is Other People

You’ve heard a colleague say “You’re all smart coders. You can figure out how my code works!” as an excuse to let less-than-clear code slip in. This is bunk, and here’s why.
Jon Yurek
November 4, 2014
- Style
- Good Code
- Hound
Back to Basics: Anonymous Functions and Closures

Anonymous functions and closures are a useful concepts included in most...
Britt Ballard
October 10, 2014
- Web
- Back To Basics
- Good Code
- Ruby
- JavaScript
How to Stop Voodoo Programming

Voodoo programming is when we write code that we don’t really understand. We know we shouldn’t do it. But how do we stop?
Rich Rines
October 7, 2014
- Good Code
Prefer Objects as Method Parameters, Not Class Names

In an application we worked on, we presented users with multiple choice...
Joe Ferris
September 26, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Good Code
Back to Basics: SOLID

SOLID is an acronym created by Bob Martin and Michael Feathers that refers to...
Britt Ballard
September 3, 2014
- Web
- iOS
- Back To Basics
- Good Code
- Ruby
- Swift
Meditations on a Class Method

I keep a file of code I like. When looking for inspiration, I read through...
Mike Burns
July 31, 2014
- Web
- Good Code
- Ruby
Let Your Code Speak For Itself

Comments are like playing telephone. Avoid them with clearer method names.
Adarsh Pandit
July 16, 2014
- Web
- Good Code
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