By Gaurav Narula After implementing our Twitter-clone, Ribbit, in plain PHP and Rails, it’s time to introduce the next walk-through: Python! In this tutorial, we’ll rebuild Ribbit using Django. Without further delay, let’s get started! [responsive][/responsive] Step 0 – Bootstrapping As of the time of this writing, Django 1.4 supports Python 2.5 to 2.7.3. Before […]
By James Anders Ruby is a language with a set of powerful features – the most powerful arguably being Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas. In short, these features allow you to pass code to a method and execute that code at a later time. Despite regularly using these features, many developers don’t fully understand the subtle […]
By Rey Bango My previous two articles focused on debugging tools, so it’s only fitting that I continue with this theme. When debugging front-end code, you tend to spend a lot of time reviewing how CSS and JavaScript affect your page’s rendering; equally important is how network requests affect your site. In many cases, we […]
By Chris Kelly You’re already using source control for managing your code, right? You might even be using your SCM as the central piece of your workflow, like we do at New Relic. In this article, we’re not going to review the basics of source control management, regardless of which one you use. Let’s just […]
By Chris Fidao RESTful API’s are hard! There are a lot of aspects to designing and writing a successful one. For instance, some of the topics that you may find yourself handling include authentication, hypermedia, versioning, rate limits, and content negotiation. Rather than tackling all of these concepts, however, let’s instead focus on the basics […]
By Umar Hansa In this third part of our Chrome Developer Tools series, we’ll review how to modify and debug JavaScript. Optimization is an important part of the development process, especially for performance-critical applications. We’ll also discuss techniques for identifying potential bottlenecks in our code. As in the previous two articles, I’ll be focusing […]
By Patkos Csaba Writing code, which is easy to change is the Holy Grail of programming. Welcome to programming nirvana! But things are much more difficult in reality: source code is difficult to understand, dependencies point in countless directions, coupling is annoying, and you soon feel the heat of programming hell. In this tutorial, we […]