How To Test Image Uploads With MiniTest On Padrino

July 22, 2011

This week I got to pair program with Oren Golan whose last high profile job was at Border Stylo. While there, he wrote a series of excellent blog posts that I highly recommend reading. The one that caught my eye was his post on MiniTest, that’s a lighter version of RSpec. We created a Padrino [...]

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In LA Coders Are Scared To Take Risks

July 17, 2011

In Los Angeles, it’s pretty hard to find good coders for a startup in this market. I’d say even harder than in Silicon Valley. Social media experts are easy to come by here, though. Why? Most coders in LA are scared. To start things off, I just want to say that I’ve tried and swung [...]

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Traffic Has Been Phenomenal! Thank you!

July 17, 2011

Traffic has been phenomenal! Thank you! Stick around for details, because I would love to thank my readers with a Tweetup / Drinkup. Got any tips for a breaking tech story? Email me or reply to me on twitter: @barce! PS I’ve listened to the suggestions on Hacker News and have removed the pictures of [...]

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What’s It Like To Be Fired?

July 15, 2011

I got fired many years ago while working as a web developer. I won’t go into who or where. This is just a description of what it’s like to be fired and how to cope afterwards. I am hoping this will help some folks out there for when this tech bubble bursts and more firings [...]

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How I Use The Node.js Circle On Google Plus

July 14, 2011

I really got into Google+ when I got an email from Guy Halford-Thompson, the author of the Cache Me blog that was sent to the Node.js mailing list. Im sure many of you already have your Google Plus accounts. I for one have finally got mine and am super excited. Got my NodeJS circle set [...]

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Coders Who Don’t Job Interview: Zed Shaw

July 12, 2011

I wrote a piece about the current state of job recruiting from a coder looking for work. I wondered: What would it be like if you didn’t have to do a job interview? (The non-tl;dr summary is below.) By “job interview,” I just mean the normal process where I job candidate replies to an ad, [...]

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Django Follows the Law of Least Googling

July 11, 2011

What web framework should someone new to web development learn? Any framework that follows what I call “The Law of Least Googling.” This law states that a tutorial will not let a learner have to Google anything for as long as possible and for as little as possible. I’ve followed the Django Tutorial all the [...]

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I Did What I Loved and Nearly Destroyed Myself

July 10, 2011

This is a polemic against the well-written blog post of Adam Conrad called “Do What You Love or You Will Destroy Yourself.” The same warning that he applied to his post, I am applying here. There’s lots of stuff, but feel free to skip down to the useful bits at the end. I start off [...]

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Recruiting is Broken: The $2400 Face to Face Interview

June 13, 2011

I lost a week of billable last week. That’s how much it costs if you go all out and turn on the recruiter fire hose. I got a face to face interview today. It was my $2400 face to face interview and I had to just turn it down because of the back log. Right [...]

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What’s it like to be recruited?

June 8, 2011

First off, I’m very grateful to my parents for getting me a computer when I was 8. I am not sure where I’d be if it wasn’t for that. I got inspiration from this HN article and did the same. My #s are way higher. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608900 As an experiment, I submitted my resume to Dice, [...]

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