Nelson Mandela once said: “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” While Madiba is no longer with us, about a year ago I had the honor of meeting…
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Giving Thanks by Giving Laptops to Those in Need
Posted in Agile, Development, Ethics, Giving Back, Python Tagged with: Development, giving back, Python, sisonke, South Africa, teaching
HTTParty Cookies and Devise
So you are working in Ruby, you like to party, you like HTTP and you like cookies. For many ruby developers the HTTParty is a great way to make http calls from your ruby code to a web service. When…
Posted in Architecture, Development, gems, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Development, Devise, HTTParty, Oauth, Rails, Ruby
Using OmniAuth to Authenticate for Doorkeeper
In Ruby, if you want to set up a Oauth provider the Doorkeeper Gem is a popular solution. We had a application where we wanted to provide our end users with a oauth interface for our main authentication/authorization, but delegate…
Posted in Architecture, Development, rails, ruby, scaling Tagged with: Development, Doorkeeper, Oauth, Omniauth, Scaling, Service Oriented Architecture
Creating a Software Development Career
This month’s Atlanta Ruby User group had two sessions related to marketing yourself as a developer. One focused on Jobs (great job Al) and then one talked a bit about personal branding. While getting a job is important, and having…
Rubyfuza 2014 Recap
Rubyfuza is Africa’s premier Ruby-language conference held each year in South Africa at the beginning of February. This year’s conference took place from 5 – 8 February at the Strand Hotel in beautiful Cape Town. Approximately 150 people, (many of…
Posted in Agile, Development, rails, ruby Tagged with: Agile, Conferences, Development, Rails, Ruby, South Africa
Skinny Models and Skinny Controllers with the state_machine gem
Recently we have been working on a project to create a payment system using Stripe. When you are processing payments you often have a process that goes through a number of steps. For example, if you are processing a payment…
Posted in Architecture, Development, rails, ruby, Stripe Tagged with: Development, Rails, Ruby, State Machine, Stripe