Christian PalingWhat I would use Ruby or Rails for in 2017 (and beyond)I love Ruby. It’s my favorite language, it’s elegant, it’s a joy to program in, it’s the language that enables me to live and to pay my…Nov 4, 2017Nov 4, 2017
Christian PalingWriting your Node.js Code using TypeScriptI recently tried out TypeScript since it seems to be a promising JavaScript transpiler and wanted to share my first experiences here to…Dec 5, 2016Dec 5, 2016
Christian PalingManaging separate test folders in RailsWhen developing on a Rails application I don’t place all my code in the standard controllers/models/helpers folders but add extra folders…Oct 2, 20161Oct 2, 20161
Christian PalingIntroduction to dependency injection in RubyDuring one of my Java projects I stumbled upon dependency injection which is a major thing in Java development. At first I did not really…Jul 31, 20166Jul 31, 20166
Christian PalingPlaying with symmetric encryption algorithms in RubyIn the times where data privacy is a headline every week it is good for software developers to have an understanding of encryption and…Apr 20, 20165Apr 20, 20165
Christian PalingRuby start_with?, end_with? vs regular expressionsIn my current project peacock (little gem to manage .gitignore files via the command line) I had to do a lot of string tests specifially on…Apr 16, 20161Apr 16, 20161
Christian PalingSimple trick to pipe an output to clipboard in Mac OS X on the command lineI’m a heavy user of both the command line and the graphical user interface. Sometimes it would be handy for both to be able to be combined…Apr 6, 20162Apr 6, 20162
Christian PalingIntroduction to writing ES6 code using BabelBabel and ES6 is in the mouth of everybody since a long time now. Experienced JavaScript developers recommend writing JavaScript code using…Mar 16, 2016Mar 16, 2016
Christian PalinginFrontend WeeklySimple trick to deep clone a nested data structure in JavaScriptA longer time ago I was working on a Node.js application with Ractive.js as front end library. Naturally in our front end we had complex…Feb 12, 20161Feb 12, 20161
Christian PalingOptionals in SwiftAt the moment I’m spending some of my free time learning Apple’s new language Swift. Since optionals are one of the key features in Swift…Feb 5, 2016Feb 5, 2016
