Dead rows in a materialized view
In the application that I work on, we have a materialized view. It was created from several joined tables. It’s used to speed up searching for data without joining seven or eight tables in every qu...
The Art of Project Management - part 2
INTRODUCTION In the first part of the cycle, we talked about initial estimations (in our case project concept) and characteristics o...
How to write neovim plugins in Lua
One of goals which neovim devs set for themselves, was making lua the first-class scripting language alternative to viml. Since version 0.4 its' interpreter along with 'stdlib' have been already bu...
Trailblazer tutorial: collections, forms, testing Cells - part 6
In this post, we will finish up refactoring views that we saw, including a view that is heavily based on callbacks. We won't be able to delete them yet since for now we only render the cell in one ...
Trailblazer tutorial: refactoring legacy rails views with Trailblazer Cells - part 5
Encapsulating backend business logic into Trailblazer operations is a very important part of building an app based on it, alongside contracts and moving logic from controllers. Another important st...
Trailblazer tutorial: updating old fat controller - part 4.
Since we prepared and tested Operation and Contract to create Proposal with Trailblazer way, it is time to clean the mess in the controller. Let's remind how our controller #create action looks...
Trailblazer tutorial: refactoring fat controller - part 3.
Before we move our business logic to Operation class we still need to handle: Setting the speaker data, Updating the bio of current user based on the speaker from proposal bio. **_(Iter...
Trailblazer tutorial: move business logic from controller - part 2.
Since we have basic cases and success flow tested and implemented, it is time to focus on our business logic which we want to move from controller to Operation. Our first identified logic is t...
Trailblazer tutorial: fat controller - part 1.
Introduction We write web development software for ~20 years, we used Perl, PHP, Python, C#, and Java during the first 13 years of our existence. Now for the last 7 years, we decided to focus ...
Should we even care about the code?
Context Before I start this little controversial blog post, I would like to give a little context of the situation, which made me come with conclusions below. About 7 years ago I started to a ...