5 tips for keeping your Rails views under control
Use & enforce design and code styleguides for SASS & views Markup is about content not design Use SASS variables mixins Move CSS classes up in the DOM & design changes to CSS Use decorators (or helpers) to: Generate classes Generate copy Generate HTML attributes View my RailsConf talk on Incremental Design. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own MailChimp ...
If you see something, say the RIGHT thing :: Thoughts on intervening
By now, most of you have heard about the sexual assault at Code Mash. Justine -- and others that come out about sexual assault -- are some of the bravest people in the world. They have opened themselves and their lives up to the scrutiny of an often cruel world. And I salute them. But what I really want to talk about are the witnesses. Zach, who was talking with the developer who intervened, wrote a thoughtful post on intervening -- why ...
Why start-ups should be concerned about hiring a diverse group of engineers
I wrote this as a first draft after taking The Op-Ed Project seminar in the fall of 2012. It inspired a later article published on Entreprenur.com Hiring engineers for start-ups -- or any company -- is hard. In fact, hiring engineers was the 2nd hardest position to fill in 2012. So one of the last thing you want to add to your list of must-haves -- Ruby, Javascript, Ops, TDD, etc -- is gender diversity. A lot is at stake when you hire ...
Values: Where tech + handmade converge
I wrote a post on the blog for my coming soon! product inspired by a talk Francis Hwang gave at GoRuCo on Javascript. He said: Our tools will change, but our values can stay the same. Read my post here.
Is it really so hard to find female programmers??
I am currently hiring a few students for a summer internship. About 40% of the applicants were women and about half my interviews are with women. How'd I do it? It was common sense really. (more…)