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Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T	go to file
⌘⌃P	go to project
⌘R	go to methods
⌃G	go to line
⌘KB	toggle side bar
⌘⇧P	command prompt

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A story explaining MVC

MVC stands for:

• Models
• Views
• Controllers

It’s more fun to imagine the explainatin of MVC as a story with “a fat assistant, a skinny manager and a good looking sales rep" (fat model, skinny controller and well designed view) rather than a boring “3-tiered MVC architecture”.

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Rails Content Management Systems

When developing websites for small to medium clients, often a decent CMS is needed to get basic CRUD functionality and authentication off the ground quickly.

I've done a little bit of research into some of the most popular CMS platforms. Here are my quick thoughts.

1. Browser CMS

• Website: http://www.browsercms.org/

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Deploying to Heroku
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group :production do
  gem 'rails_12factor'
end

# Enable the asset pipeline
config.assets.enabled = true
config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false

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HAML: the unforgivable sin

Repost from: http://opensoul.org/2011/11/30/haml-the-unforgivable-sin/

I used HAML on several client projects and I hated it every time. There are certainly some things that are nice about it, but overall it is a net loss.

##For abstraction’s sake Abstractions are a beautiful thing. The goal of an abstraction is to reduce or factor out irrelevant details. Removing details focuses you on the problem at hand and not the underlying implementation.

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du -sh *

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<!-- for Google -->
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />

<meta name="copyright" content="" />
<meta name="application-name" content="" />

<!-- for Facebook -->          
<meta property="og:title" content="" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />

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{
  /* Map # to § key*/
  "§" = ("insertText:", "#");
}

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true and false vs. "truthy" and "falsey" (or "falsy") in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

Many programming languages, including Ruby, have native boolean (true and false) data types. In Ruby they're called true and false. In Python, for example, they're written as True and False. But oftentimes we want to use a non-boolean value (integers, strings, arrays, etc.) in a boolean context (if statement, &&, ||, etc.).

This outlines how this works in Ruby, with some basic examples from Python and JavaScript, too. The idea is much more general than any of these specific languages, though. It's really a question of how the people designing a programming language wants booleans and conditionals to work.

If you want to use or share this material, please see the license file, below.

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Keypress	Action
cmd + s	save changes in current file - DO IT OFTEN!!!
cmd + q	close Sublime
cmd + w	close one file at a time
cmd + alt + arrow	switch between files
cmd + numbers	also switch between specific files
cmd + f	search in you current file
cmd + shift + f	search the entire project
cmd + d	go to next searched word in file