Some might have heard of the decision we took last year in October, for others it might be new: We jumped into the deep end of the pool by deciding to spend all of our time on what we love doing most – building tools for the web, using technology of the web. It is an incredibly exciting time in the life of uxebu, so let me sum up a little bit why and how we took this somewhat crazy step.
The uxebu incubator
We always tried to make time available for other projects, open-source work and R&D type of work. We pushed out a lot of cool stuff, such as TouchScroll, EmbedJS, HumanAPI, StorageJS and apparat.io. We even were spinning around ideas of giving everybody at uxebu the option to seed-fund their own idea/startup from uxebu funds by creating an incubator. We never were really able though to launch something into its own life – customer projects did a great job sneaking themselfs into our other projects with sometimes too high priority – you probably know exactly how this feels :)
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I am just hacking along, all TDD style of course, and the one problem I always come across again is to realize when I should mock and when not. My current idea is to have two blocks of tests, one with mocked data, the other non-mocking. Let me lead you to why I came up with that. Input and discussion welcome, I am curious about ideas and possible improvements.
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Now let me post a couple of code snippets that are lying around here already for a while. For the uber geeks out there you might yawn seeing them, but there are a lot of people who are searching for this stuff over and over, including myself. So let me post some small useful snippets that have went through my fingers lately.
Reading on, you will see snippets that help you with 1) detecting if a variable is a real array 2) how to convert it into a proper array 3) how to mimic a x = [3..25] kinda thing that other languages offer 4) how to easily pad a string with leading chararacter (i.e. zeros) and finally 5) how to create a unique function for arrays.
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This is a guest post by David Pfahler and Stephan Bönnemann of keeplook.in.
Total reading time: 3:57min (based on Alex)
When you try to learn a new programming language or work with a new framework for the first time you’re likely to google something along the lines of “How to …” or “framework X tutorial”. As a developer you might also be the one writing how-to articles for your own creations. If you’re interested in turning your 569-page long, textbook-style manual in to a golden asset of yours, please read on.
Hello there!
I know, I know, it’s been too long since we’ve met. But let me make that up to you by this monster post. An Xmas special! Not because all the participants in this episode played nice with each other. Oh no, they most certainly did not. It’s a full out war! But more because, well, Xmas-eve is tomorrow :) So, let’s see how threw what mud in which direction and why.
Mind you this is about three weeks worth of news, out of order, so some of it might be a little “old”. Then again, I guess anything in this industry is old if it didn’t happen today…
