Top Reads for April
This is the 12th installment of my attempt at creating a monthly post which aggregates all the best content I’ve come across in the past month. (That means I’ve managed to keep this up for a whole year!) ‘Best’ in this context could mean quite a few things – interesting, thought-provoking, funny or a cool new open source project. So here are the top things I read in April.
Ruby on Rails
- Ruby Garbage Collection: Still Not Ready for Production
- Ruby Garbage Collection: Ready for Production
- 4 Steps to Faster Rails Tests
- Setting Up Fast No-Rails Tests
- Fast Rails Tests Presentation by Corey Haines – Golden Gate Ruby Conference 2011
- Precompiled Rails Static 404 and 500 Pages
- Dynamic Routes to Static Pages on Rails
- Crazy, Heretical, and Awesome: The Way I Write Rails Apps
- Form-backing objects for fun and profit
JavaScript
- 5 Surprisingly Painful Things About Client-Side JS
- A Year on Angular on Rails: A Retrospective
- Write Better JavaScript with Promises
- On AngularJS
- The Special Properties of ngRepeat In AngularJS
iOS
- The Right Way to Ask Users for iOS Permissions
- Clean up your projects with Xcode 5
- Developers: Here’s how to add a little 1Password to your iOS apps
Programming
- What is Programming?
- Write Code Every Day
- We Are All Bad Programmers
- Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong
Heartbleed
- The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now
- Everything you need to know about the Heartbleed SSL bug
- Of Money, Responsibility, and Pride (OpenSSL)
Testing
Other
- CSS coding conventions
- Ambient sounds to wash away distraction
- What It Takes To Be A Great Technical Leader
- This Is Why Microsoft Won. And Why They Lost.
Happy coding.