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Hey Ash,

I've decided to approach this lockdown a little different. I've got this gym and I want to use it as much as I can. So I've written a bit of a program for myself. Do you mind having a look over and tell me how crazy it is?

Goals are: get stronger with my front squat, stay active and motivated. I don't intend on pushing the other strength areas too much, but having them there keeps me happier.

Each day I'm planning to keep the strength portion to same to see if I can progress over the 6 weeks, with the idea being that I alternate between the metcons. On Wednesday and Thursday I intend on dialling into the zoom class for mobility and "barbell".

Monday - No cardio Monday

Focus on upping my front squat strength then working on heavy power cleans.

lengarvey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AMzRAjA0-o&t=3m36s

A technical Keynote

A Technical Keynote presented by Michael Feathers at the 2016 Mile High Agile Conference.

"Get business and development to work together" -> merge together -> get better at software development

cultural chasm between business and tech

we aren't seeing how endemic software is to the work we are doing

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Hiring Remotely - Concerns

It's important to define what we mean by remote. There are a few levels:

• In another office in my country.
• Somewhere in my country.
• In a foreign office as part of a "remote delivery team" aka: off-shoring.
• Somewhere in the world.

The biggest concern I see is understanding how we will support remote workers as well as co-located people.

lengarvey

Hi Leonard,

I'd like for you to speak with our engineering team to discuss caching REA Group's content on Fastly's real-time CDN.
 
Fastly serves content for Target, Twitter, New Relic, Cloudera and GitHub (among others).
 
With Fastly, you can:
Cache your dynamic or static content, objects, video, and APIs
Invalidate your cached content in 150 ms
Deploy your own custom configurations instantly

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am lengarvey on github.
• I am lengarvey (https://keybase.io/lengarvey) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASBClVV_b4RRQ8_WLlqFYRqKFrHV66xybv8Y4raQh8mfygo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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Admin and Markdown

Installing an Administration System

One of the big problems with our blog is that we're using HTTP Basic Authentication to prevent anyone from creating and editing blog posts and that the links to perform these actions are right there in the blog. Instead we'd prefer to have an admin panel where we could manage our blog posts. We could build one from scratch but there's a fantastic gem called ActiveAdmin which we can use to

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Testing a Rails app

Setup

Add rspec-rails to your Gemfile:

group :test, :development do
  gem 'sqlite3'
  gem "rspec-rails", "~> 3.0"
 gem "byebug"

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Rails Girls Next

We're going to go through learning some more Ruby on Rails. I've based this guide on the Installfest guides that I built when I was working for Reinteractive. The goal is to take a blog application (that we can build from scratch by following the Installfest guide) and make a series of changes to the blog so that we can learn some stuff as we go.

Goals

1. Learn the foundations of testing.
2. Improve our knowledge of HTTP/HTML and CSS.

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Vertically Centering Carl

A Pen by Leonard Garvey on CodePen.

License.

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class FooWorker
  def perform
    # the perform in the worker only does a single thing
    # write a test to check if this is queued
    BarService.run 
  end
end

class BarService
  # write unit tests for this service class