Good post from Rishi on how to refactor code into Service Objects to improve code maintainability and quality.
Author: Gautam Rege
Rubyist, Entrepreneur and co-founder of Josh-Software - one of the leading Ruby development shops in India.
What It Takes To Write A Chrome Extension
Here is an excellent post on how to write Chrome extensions. It’s complete with an example using Pocket.
With a large number of services available online, we tend to to spend most of our time on our browser. Well browser do come handy for a large number of activities from reading news to making travel and dining reservations. What can be better than a browser that can do some cool stuff with a click of mouse or a simple key stroke… I guess nothing
Google Chrome is the best web browser around right now (see usage statistics), and part of Chrome’s appeal is owed to its excellent extensions. Its not really hard write simple extension to get your work done.
All it needs is a little javascript, html and may be some css if you want things to be a little more pretty.
So lets build one…
Purpose: Export Chrome bookmarks to Pocket account.
Requirements:
- Some javascript skills
- poor html skills
- since we want to talk…
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Tips & Tricks For Using Git
Here are some often used Tips and tricks with Git
Earlier, for maintaining Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds and his team were using BitKeeper asSCM system, but they had to opt out for another system because their were some concerns about the OSL and the support for the free version of BitKeeper had been dropped. Torvalds and his team wanted a SCM which is more faster in terms of performance than the existing systems, he wanted it to be fast enough that it can apply a patch in 3 seconds and update its associated metadata, but none of the systems were meeting his needs at that time, so he decided to develop his own.
So, Torvalds and his team started the development of new SCM in April 2005. He wanted it to be named after himself, like Linux. He said that he considers himself as egotistical bastard, so he preferred the name Git (English meaning of git is an unpleasant person 🙂
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