Unlimited PTO can be a double-edged sword. Have you ever worked at a company where PTO was discouraged? The landscape has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. When I started my career, most companies had “sick time” separate from “vacation time”. Vacation had to be approved in advanced. And the concept of a mental … More How I take time off in an “unlimited” PTO world
Ever notice how you can type in “youtube” in Chrome and press tab to search directly in the URL bar? In Chrome this is defined as a “search engine”. You can see these by going to: chrome://settings/searchEngines. Chrome will set up many search engines for you (youtube, amazon, etc.). But you can also define your … More Adding custom search keywords in Chrome
We’re going to backup our database, stop the old Postgres, start the new one, and then restore our database on the new version. It sounds a little more complicated than it really is. If you’re curious on how Postgres backup and restore works, check out this earlier post. Start your old version of Postgres in … More Upgrading Postgres in Docker (and keep your data!)
TL;DR 1. pg_dump -d my_database > my_backup_script.sql 2. rake db:create OR psql: CREATE DATABASE my_database_name 3. psql my_database_name < my_backup_script.sql Running into issues, or want to understand in more detail? Let’s dig in some more. Step 1: Backup Your Data Open up your favorite terminal. Make sure your database server is running (in Docker, in … More Backup and Restoring Databases in Postgres
(Last updated June 22nd, 2019) Applications are now closed. We are reviewing all entries in detail and will be replying to all applicants on June 30th. This scholarship is available to students who have made an impact to another person, a small group, or a community through self-sacrifice. This award celebrates the power of helping … More The Samuel E. Wilson Volunteer of the Year Scholarship
Say we’re building two features: A checkout process. Support promo codes while checking out. We’ve finished building our checkout functionality. We wrap up our branch and sent the pull request through our review/testing process. In the meantime, we’re ready to start our second feature. Since we need the checkout code in order to add promo … More Waiting on a branch to merge in Git
My father played football at Fulton High, and received a scholarship to play football at Vanderbilt. He declined. He always wanted to be a Volunteer. Before setting foot on the University of Tennessee campus, my father joined the Air Force to serve his country during the Vietnam War. After the war, he officially matriculated to … More Always a Volunteer
Web traffic follows a fairly standard flow. Request to Response. Someone makes a request to a server (e.g., your mobile phone makes a request to Twitter’s server), and the server then processes that request and sends a response. All responses include a status code. The most common status code people see is 404 (and websites … More A Primer for HTTP Status Codes
I met Elixir in 2017. Elixir was the quiet, unassuming type. Polite, a bit nerdy, and intelligent. We had a few brief, albeit meaningful conversations. Elixir talked about its interest in telecom/VOIP/OTP. This wasn’t my current interest at the time. I had been working in BI/Analytics for nearly 7 years. But I appreciated the need … More Elixir: my nerdy, misunderstood friend
Spoiler Alert: I found build_stubbed not viable as a replacement of createin our test suite. To remove the dependency of the database in tests, I would recommend RSpec’s instance_double instead. Read on to find out why. I was excited to find out that FactoryGirl has methods to create in-memory objects instead of hitting the database. Running a … More What I learned while digging into FactoryGirl’s build_stubbed
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