A recent confession by Piotr Solnica started another bit of drama in the Ruby world. I started writing this post just after reading Fabio Akita’s response to Piotr’s post - for me it shows all the problems with Rails’ defensive mindset, but it also reminded me that Rails is still a pretty cool framework. Feel confused? Let’s solve that.

Русские красотки снимаются в порнушке на западных студиях - это русское порно на Рукоебе, которое можно посмотреть онлайн или скачать себе в гаджет. Действительно топовые красавицы из России снимаются под эгидой лучших порно режиссеров современности. Теперь и ты сможешь посмотреть первоклассное порно с русскими звездами и моделями и насладиться процессом.

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The number of devices going online grows every day. Connecting them all presents new challenges since IoT hardware is often limited in terms of available resources. Cheap, power-efficient microcontrollers with unreliable power sources have to talk to each other over wireless networks with low throughput and high packet loss rate. They usually use...

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At Monterail we like to try new stuff. We try new languages and new (maybe not so new) frameworks.

Hanami (formerly Lotus) is a Ruby web framework created by Luca Guidi and community.

Probably the most problematic thing for people trying hanami after experience with rails is changing your mind away from the “rails way”. I can write many good things...

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A year after the first European Elixir conference, the language doesn’t rule the world just yet. Nonetheless, the recent edition of the conference shows that alchemists are on the right way to making it happen. Let me explain why.

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On the very day that our Internet of Things R&D team held its first meeting, a major news story broke: A group of tech companies, including Qualcomm and Microsoft, had joined the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) – one of the leading standards groups in the IoT world – effectively forming a new entity called the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF...

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The topic of whether designers should or should not learn to code isn’t actually anything new. The pursuit of creating the web of tomorrow has led to the blurring of lines between front-end and back-end development where the front-end developer has started to become too general. Ever since the popularisation of the AngularJS framework, JavaScript...

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One of the main goals of a Project Manager is to maintain a comfortable environment for developers in order to let them do their job in the best way possible.

And even though they don’t seem to relate directly to actual development, contract details often affect not only financial prognosis, but also the everyday work of web-development teams. Let...

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Diverse nature of creation

I was always really keen on building stuff. First it was with Lego blocks, which we all know from our childhood (I still love to build Lego with my nephew). Later, it became simple fighting robots that were entered in local contests - a group of friends and I tried to build some extremely amateur electronics and mechanical...

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I grew up in the golden era of monthly magazines about computer games (rest in peace Reset and Świat Gier Komputerowych). I was so crazy about them that I would look through the window by telescope to verify if a new issue had landed at the nearest newsstand.

Thanks to this sentiment, I fell in love with PragPub magazine at first sight. I cannot...

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In a world eaten by software, it’s often believed that making software is an exponential, factory-like process. A process of connecting thousands of lines of code that fly-in constantly from multiple anonymous developers who tirelessly type away on their keyboards. We have a solid track record to believe otherwise.

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