Setting up Postgres for a Rails site

19 February 2015

Here’s a quick solution adding a specific user (aka role) in Postgres.

React.js and Flux link roundup

31 January 2015

Here’s a small collection of links for developers looking to learn.

Scraping links with just your browser

01 January 2015

I recently came across a page with lots of links to txt files. I got frustrated when I wanted to look up something in these files but couldn’t because I’d have to download each one by one.

SHPE San Francisco site makeover

12 December 2014

I’m happy to announce that R3DM’s first project is done! It’s live at Shpesfba.org.

October

31 October 2014

This month has been hectic.

Why is it so damn hard to gitignore recursively

30 September 2014

I have a directory where I’m storing all my solution to nodeschool.io courses. For many of these solutions I have installed node dependencies. These are stored in a node_modules directory in each folder. To ignore a directory recursively you can use the following .gitignore file

Heroku Ghost.js example configuration

12 September 2014

We’re evaluating Ghost.js for our upcoming project at r3dm.com. It’s pretty cool. Explicitly NOT a CMS for node.

Webgrep

28 August 2014

So I haven’t been able to work on a solid blog post on any specific technology. I’d like my articles to be a lot like the articles you see on nettuts or sitepoint, just haven’t found tech I’m super passionate about like that this month.

Teaching at Hacker Coding Academy

14 July 2014

This post is secretly only for testing embedding jsfiddles in a webpage. But I might as well give the blog an update. I’m currently teaching part-time at Hacker Coding Academy a 12 week full stack Javascript Vocational school. I’m very excited to work on my communication skills and really learn what I know by passing it on.

Adding unix aliases to OSX

10 June 2014

A part of mastering the commandline is extending it with your own custom commands. On any nix environment you should have access to config files, e.g., ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile. I add my aliases to my ~/.zshrc file. ZSH is pretty dope btw, definitely check it out.