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Efficiently Find Files with RubyMine’s Navigation Bar
RubyMine’s powerful “Go to file” command allows you to quickly jump to a particular file in a project. This is a great way to get started, but a development session often ends up being confined to a...
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By selectively hiding and showing sections of code, code folding allows you to focus on what’s relevant, while ignoring irrelevant details. Code folding is also a useful way for quickly getting a...
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As a business, design is built around deliverables: clients pay for wireframes, mockups, prototypes. As a practice, these deliverables are a means to a single end: communicating design decisions. The...
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Like most engineers, I do a lot of optimizing, often just for fun. When walking to work I seek the shortest route. When folding my laundry I minimize the number of moves. And at work, of course, I...
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At Pivotal Labs we have a basic policy for meetings, No Laptops Allowed. At first this seemed harsh to me, and for business- inefficient. Within my first three weeks though, I’ve been converted. I’ve...
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Productive Rails View Development in RubyMine
RubyMine includes several commands to simplify working with Rails views. In this post, we’ll look at OS X keyboard shortcuts for view navigation, creation, and previewing; ERB code generation and...
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Trying Out RubyMine 6.0
Last week, JetBrains released RubyMine 6.0. The most significant feature is multi-project support; perfect for component-based Rails architectures. However, in this post, we’ll look at OS X keyboard...
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TL;DR: Troubleshooting Oracle performance issues is non-trivial. Pay attention to Oracle’s memory management settings when experiencing local slowness, particularly if running against Oracle XE...
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A famous American man called Theodore Roosevelt once wrote: “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being...
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Bit.ly + static hangout links = quick feedback loops. Quick feedback loops are core to the Pivotal process. Effective communication enables successful agile projects. Pairing, stand-ups, and retros are...
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