More than one year after the last improvement, a few advances are more than welcome now. If Pitsby is still a non-existing word in your dictionary, you can now define it as a tool that aims to help you write UI components documentation easier. The main reason behind its existence was to offer an alternative to Storybook - the most popu...
What does happen to the front-end developer who decides to build his first API with Rails? He'll face several roadblocks, I can guarantee. I have just finished my studies on backend programming and finally released an API built with the most popular framework of the Ruby universe, Rails. If I had to summarize the experience in one sent...
You might want to disable your website or web app analytics for several reasons. To ignore your own visits, avoid unnecessary consumption of a paid service in development time, skip visits made by testing tools, etc. Since the day I searched how to ignore myself from Google Analytics stats, I noticed a clear opportunity for a more conv...
Time zone aside, date is probably the worst thing a programmer has to deal with. Months contain an irregular amount of days, one of them doesn't have even thirty days. The year is not filled with 370 days nor 360. It contains 365 - but not always. Imagine the task of subtracting five days. Business days or regular days? Holidays includ...
I haven't ever had any trouble to locate the gate indicated on my boarding pass. I have no difficulties in detecting where and when will happen the event announced on an invite received by email. Reading has always been an easy task. Since I was able to relate a set of letters to a word, I considered reading an acquired skill. That cer...
This is a recurring question in software development. Responses to this question usually lead developers to an intense debate confronting several points of view. Even though the question seems complex, the only possible answer seems very obvious to me. Some say that tests result in additional costs to the project because they stretch d...
If you haven't ever heard about Derek Sivers, visit his website now and read a couple of their blog posts. Paragraph by paragraph, your neck will become more elastic, and your head, freer to spin around, will start to notice a larger world than the one you were used to. Reading his first book - Anything You Want - by September of the l...
For a long time in my career, writing about programming meant writing in English instead of my mother-language Portuguese. It seems to be the usual way in a profession mainly led by native English speakers. By the way, a large number of programming tools are available in English only, leading non-native English speakers like me to inve...
Every time I read the documentation of libraries that promise to make the development of forms easier, I get deeply frustrated. I can't believe someone looks to those libraries and thinks they really improve the development experience. Some of the reasons would include the counterintuitiveness of those APIs, the amount of code a develo...
In my mother language, Carta de Apresentação is the term that translates to Cover Letter in English. At the start of the past year, I wrote a cover letter to compete for a position at Basecamp. Along with my text, I wanted to use a metaphor. After all, Basecamp is the "cradle" of Rails. But how to be sure that "cradle of" would express...