Double Shot #1894
- Learning Rails in 2017 - Some notes from a Node developer who tackled Rails as a new platform.
- The State of JavaScript 2017 - Your chance to participate in a survey to see what's hot and what's not.
- Edabit - "Learn to code with interactive challenges". A fair bit of stuff here for beginning developers, in JavaScript, Python, and Java.
- Rails 5.1.3.rc1 and 5.0.5.rc1 released - Another round of minor updates is about to ship. The treadmill never stops.
- On Password Managers - Tim Bray tackles the question of 1Password in particular and password managers in general.
- How to quickly add graphs and charts to Rails app - Using Google charts, which is quick and easy but may add a dependency that you don't want.
- How I Reduced my DB Server Load by 80% - A story of troubleshooting with a happy ending (and bad Rails default behavior).
- Traim - Micro-framework for building a RESTful API from Active Record models. Sits directly on top of Rack to keep the overhead low.