Coder Catchup

A run through GithHub's new pricing structure. Is it good or is it bad? Will it suit you? Read the blog at https://github.com/blog/2164-introducing-unlimited-private-repositories

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/4/18/heroku_review_apps_GA https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/github-integration-review-apps Heroku Review Apps now Generally Available Review apps are the instant, disposable Heroku app environments that can spin up automatically with each GitHub pull request. They allow developers and their teams to automatically build and test any pull request, updated at every push, at a temporary, shareable URL. When the pull request is closed or merged, the Review app is deleted. GitHub users are notified of all this, right in the pull request web interface. What you get Realistic test environments, on demand. Getting the team involved Secure deployments, Support for Heroku Private Spaces Secure deployments, Support for Heroku Private Spaces Teams that want to restrict deployments to certain developers or build managers, can restrict deploy permissions on production or staging apps for compliance or security reasons without restricting the ability of developers to create, use,

For all the run down on Foundation for Emails to listen to the full episode here: http://codercatchup.com/episodes/34808-episode-064-build-better-email-templates-with-foundation-for-emails-2 Extract from the blog http://zurb.com/article/1434/foundation-for-emails-2-1-supercharge-you Foundation for Emails 2 has already changed the email workflow for thousands of people with a revamped CSS codebase, Inky markup to ditch tables, and a powerful workflow to stay D.R.Y. It makes coding HTML emails, well, easy. Today we are releasing Foundation for Emails 2.1 which further optimizes your workflow and speeds up coding. There are a couple new Inky components and more ZURB Stack magic to simplify your HTML email development and make you an email pro. There are 2 updates, one quite major, but the first one being some new custom elements, a New Spacer Inky component. Extract: Vertical spacing between email clients is not as simple as it sounds, in fact, it's consistently inconsistent. Versions of Outlook don't respect ma

Episode 066 - Spark - Laravel Site: https://spark.laravel.com/ Spark provides the perfect starting point for your next big idea. Forget all the boilerplate and focus on what matters: your application. Created by Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel. Laravel (The PHP Framework For Web Artisans): https://laravel.com/ Forge (Painless PHP Servers, Provision, host, and deploy PHP applications on AWS, DigitalOcean, and Linode. $10 / Month for Individuals): https://forge.laravel.com Envoyer (Zero Downtime PHP Deployment, Deployments you've only dreamed about. Zero downtime. Zero fuss.): https://envoyer.io/ The TLDR Superhero Scaffolding. Spark is a Laravel package that provides scaffolding for all of the stuff you don't want to code. Subscription billing? We got that. Invoices? No problem. We even take care of authentication, password reset, team billing, two-factor authentication, profile photos, and more. It's the perfect starting point for your next big idea. What do you get? Authentication Subscriptions Team

The CMS https://craftcms.com/ Full eCommerce Solution https://craftcommerce.com/

http://foundation.zurb.com/emails.html http://zurb.com/article/1432/foundation-for-emails-2-is-here

The problems with building software using the MVP Methodology Read my medium article for more information on why you should not use MVP for your next project. https://medium.com/@pixelstack/m-v-nope-6450b2758bd2#.msfk0lrx9

Github: https://github.com/insin/nwb nwb is a development tool for React apps and components, and plain JavaScript web apps and npm modules. It's effectively a frontend for Babel, Webpack and Karma, which allows you to get started with these tools without having to learn them up-front, and to use them together in a common way across your projects without copying dependencies and configuration.

A handy .vimrc generator to build out your ideal .vimrc configuration file - http://vim-bootstrap.com/

MailChimp is saying goodbye to Mandrill, your favourite transactional email service, what you need to know is all covered in this episode. More from their blog post: http://blog.mandrill.com/important-changes-to-mandrill.html

If you are into React or Redux, these cheatsheets are for you https://egghead.io/react-redux-cheatsheets

Check it out at http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/performance-budget-builder/

In this episode we check out Wilfred, a local boilerplate manager to allow you to get your projects started quicker. Checkout Wilfred at https://github.com/michaelowens/wilfred

The fear of asking for help It is a "silly" or "stupid" question. THERE IS NO BATHROOM!, I mean THERE IS NO SILLY/STUPID QUESTION! I will be judged! FALSE! Asking for help shows you want to learn and that you can rely on your team or peers or the internet for help. This comes down to TRUST Not knowing how Imposter syndrome How to ask for help There are a couple of different ways to ask for help, these being: Solo, asking the internet (stack overflow) In a team (hopefully you are using some kind of real time chat such as Slack) A private message (DM) Public question in a channel With a video What to ask and what to provide: A scenario, job story, user story, just some way to explain the problem and your expected outcome Break down your problem into steps Provide code examples (provide code snippets, in a gist for example, name the files and try and order them in execution if applicable) Provide screenshots if its a visual problem With a video

This React thing, people are going nuts for, so what is it? It is a javascript library for building UI There are very few key principles, these being Just the UI Virtual DOM: it abstracts away the DOM, giving a simpler model and better performance. Write your code all in one place Data Flow: Simple one -way data flow, it all flows down hill All Data revolves around 2 things, state and props, boom! How simple is that!? Framework or Library Not a framework, it is a library, think of it like jQuery A framework for example is Ember So is Ember better than React? 2 completely different things Can accomplish the same things as each other So what is so good about it? Simple to learn Use it in existing server side or static sites Can incorporate pieces here and there It promotes small compose-able components and modularity Oh and there is React Native, but thats a whole other topic What do I need to get started a web browser webpack, yes another task runner, but there are plenty of boilerplates out there to

A brief walkthrough of Continuous Integration, how it can benefit you, improve your QA and more.

Ruby 2.2.2 and up support only. No more rake commands! Everything is available through the rails command, migrations, everything. Happy days. Snappier dev mode: Evented file system! Basically that means it just checks for files that have changed and reloads those, it does not have to traverse all files on each request. Huge speed boost from that. Rails API is being merged into Rails. ActionCable (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0WUjGkDFS0 by David Heinemeier Hansson) ApplicationController.render - Basically made to work with ActionCable, it allows ActionController::Renderer to render partials as strings. where.or: Finally, with ActiveRecord we can now do Object.where(‘something = something’).or(Object.where(‘something = something else’)) Couple other things... belongs_to has a sane required by default option, yup, its pretty rare that you want an optional belongs_to relationship. if you don’t want this behaviour a simple optional: true will fix that turbolinks 3, respects redirects and replaces on redirect,

Your simple weekly getting things done workflow. Plain and simple. plan out goals for the week plan goals for the day work daily goals off using the pomodoro technique. Use a todo list Use a trello board with cards Use github issues with milestones Ship early, ship often (to keep the weekly goals achievable)

react.js will completely dominate the web JS front-end in general will dominate the web a large move from sass to postcss larger use of task runner/build tools (webpack, gulp) more sites using https more animated web via micro interactions

50 episodes of the Coder Catchup Podcast, a retrospective, whats coming + a Big Announcement