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Re: How Destructuring Saved the Empire

Craig Jolicoeur — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:54:21 -0000

The Rebellion will never die...

Re: A Decade of Rails

Craig Jolicoeur — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:55:33 -0000

Thanks for the kind words, Fred. Glad you enjoyed it.

Re: 2015 - Reworking my process

Craig Jolicoeur — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:00:56 -0000

first

Re: Why We Have Routine "Code Challenges"

Craig Jolicoeur — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:41:15 -0000

We don't incentive our engineers as they all are employees of the company and the motivation is really for personal development as well as better understanding of the tools and techniques we use on client projects on a daily basis. We've found that most engineers are pretty eager to do the challenges as they provide a nice change of pace from the routine day-in-day-out type problems.

Re: Why We Have Routine "Code Challenges"

Craig Jolicoeur — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:03:17 -0000

Our code challenges our currently housed in a private Git repository since we also store all the user-submitted solutions there as well for the whole team to easily see all the submissions.

The level of difficulty for each code challenge varies quite a bit based on the intended goal of the challenge.
There are some cases where the problem set itself is somewhat "easy" but was chosen to challenge engineers to approach a known problem with a different possible solution. Other times we do "harder" level challenges to truly "challenge" our engineers in their thought process and technical skill set.

Normally, we will release two or three challenges at the same time with varying degrees of difficulties so everyone can jump in immediately and at least be successful at solving a challenge quickly and then have time to work on harder challenges over time.

Re: Go Nitpicks · npf.io

Craig Jolicoeur — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:38:47 -0000

I would say the "Which seems logical and handy, until you see a 100 line function with multiple branches and a single bare return at the bottom," is the real issue and not the bare return. If you are having huge 100 line functions with multiple branches that are hard to follow, you need to refactor your code to be more maintainable. Bare returns aren't a problem in that case.

Re: Learning to Go, Part I: Interfaces

Craig Jolicoeur — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:54:04 -0000

Good article. Some nice introductory explanations for new go devs

Re: Dirty Konami for Marionette + CoffeeScript

Craig Jolicoeur — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:17:26 -0000

FTW

Re: Keys - GoInstant docs: multiplayer, co-browse platform

Craig Jolicoeur — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:53:19 -0000

The docs are incorrect in the "Request by ID" section. They an app with ID 1 and room with ID 15, but the url shown uses 1 for both, not /1/15/

Re: Moving up: Upgrading from Pathogen to Vundle - James Lai

Craig Jolicoeur — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:34:49 -0000

I personally keep my whole vim setup in Dropbox for portability, so this hasnt been an issue for me before, but I do like it for this use case where you are storing your vim setup in a git repo. And like you, I was using Pathogen waaayyy before Vundle even existed and it has served me well.

I do like the way Vundle lets you easily upgrade all your bundles tho as now I have a custom script that manually does a git pull in all my current pathogen bundle directories

Re: What I’m Riding: Gore Countdown Insulated Jacket Review

Craig Jolicoeur — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:32:44 -0000

No worries, thanks for the reply at all :) Keep up the good work on the site

Re: What I’m Riding: Gore Countdown Insulated Jacket Review

Craig Jolicoeur — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:23:55 -0000

Any thoughts on a replacement option for this jacket as Gore/Path no longer make it

Re: Block in visit_Psych_Nodes_Alias

Craig Jolicoeur — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:26:56 -0000

You didnt define an actual alias, that is why. you want something like

development: &dev
foo: bar
baz: buz

test:
<<: *dev

Re: Turtles All the Way Down

Craig Jolicoeur — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:53:33 -0000

This is just a poor example and if you want to do something like that in the configuration files of your projects, go right ahead. Config files are closely guarded and "secure" files in general anyways, and if something like that is sneaking in (or if you allow the outside word to dynamically change your config files for you) then you are just asking for trouble. It has nothing to do with YAML or ERB or even Ruby.

Re: Factory Girl Hits 3.0!

Craig Jolicoeur — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:16:21 -0000

wouldnt it make more sense just to keep the version numbers the same for both factory_girl_rails and factory_girl to avoid confusion.

Re: Introducing MKStoreKit – Version 3

Craig Jolicoeur — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:34:14 -0000

I found the answer after reading the source myself.

There is a productPurchased: delegate method that will be called on a successful purchase. Just declare your viewcontroller as the MKStoreManager delegate

Re: Introducing MKStoreKit – Version 3

Craig Jolicoeur — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:18:54 -0000

same issue. is there any kind of delegate method or callback we can check when a transaction has been successfully completed?

Re: Love, hate, & tmux

Craig Jolicoeur — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:06:10 -0000

but functionality, it can't do anything that screen cant, correct?

Other than VR splits (which of course require a patch for screen), there is no compelling reason that I should really dig into tmux and switch is there?

Re: Love, hate, & tmux

Craig Jolicoeur — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:47:06 -0000

I guess I still dont follow why you dont just use plain old, GNU Screen? What is the benefit of using tmux instead of using screen?

I use screen every day for development and dont have any of the issues you described.

Re: East Breckinridge Street neighborhood (where’s that?) No. 14 on “most dangerous list”

Craig Jolicoeur — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:15:20 -0000

the neighborhoods they use are based on the US Census track information. It's how the census track breaks up "neighborhoods"

Re: Elementary, My Dear Watson

Craig Jolicoeur — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:25:42 -0000

ditto.

congrats @bubbawatson

Re: TMTC 24 – Continuous Integration

Craig Jolicoeur — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:46:43 -0000

Sad there was no mention of Cerberus - http://cerberus.rubyforge.org

Re: http://bcardarella.com/post/584224712

Craig Jolicoeur — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:15:53 -0000

negative. running path_helper -s prints the same PATH that I'm seeing in my terminal. I'll try a reboot too see if that fixes it although I don't see why it would for a simple unix utility that is run fresh each time /etc/profile is parsed

Re: http://bcardarella.com/post/584224712

Craig Jolicoeur — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:22:34 -0000

I updated /etc/paths to put /usr/local/bin on the first line, but it still doesn't appear to be updating my $PATH accordingly. Even after fully restarting terminal, the "old" order from /etc/paths is still used.

Any ideas??

Re: Startup Diaspora wants to be your privacy-conscious social network

Craig Jolicoeur — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:38:59 -0000

um, that is how all startups work. You come up with a product and people give you money to go implement it. These guys are doing the same thing just without using VC's. It isn't vaporware unless they never deliver a product ala Doom