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April 2008

Will Jessup is a founder and Managing Member of CitrusByte, a forward-thinking web application development business. Jessup talks about his company structure and how it attracts the best unique talent for his clients.

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April Meetup AOL Announced: April 22nd

by Daniel on April 11, 2008

We will have the next Los Angeles Web Application Developers Meetup at AOL this month. We are only letting in 75 guests this time. RSVP asap to reserve your spot.

AOL is the sponsor of this months meetup on April 22nd at 8pm. We’ll get between 50-75 developers together and go over some quick presentations about new cool stuff , eat some pizza and chat. The presentation format is 5-10 minutes on something that web application developers should know, followed by 5 minutes Q&A. There are four open slots right now, so please send me your proposals for a presentation!

When?: Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008, 8:00 PM

Where?: AOL, 331 N Maple Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Join us at Los Angeles’s biggest meetup for web application developers. Find out what’s new in development for the web. Presenters will allow you to pick up a few tips and tricks and find out about new tools. After our presentations enjoy refreshments (and beer) and network with other local developers.

http://web.meetup.com/34/

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Kill your fixtures and spec happily

April 5, 2008

The trouble w/ fixtures
I don’t use fixtures in my specs. At all. The fundamental issue with fixtures is that they setup a state for your database as a whole (or at least the tables you loaded). So when you use fixtures all your specs are running against essentially the same state. As you build your [...]

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Clean up your code a little with add!

April 3, 2008

Here’s a little chunk of code I’ve been using recently. It gives you .add
and .add! methods on your has_many relationships that work similar to the << method. The difference is that .add sacrifices chain-ability in order to return the object being added to the collection.
Adding instead of concatenating

Using book.authors ‘Geoff’) returns true [...]

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