rjs

Somebody asked me how to become a Product Manager. Here's what I wrote them.

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Hi Jon,

Those are a lot of questions. Let me try to simplify it.

I think a Product Manager is a person who is responsible for determining
what a product should be and how it should evolve. This is a design role

clemens

class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base
  before_validation :generate_number, on: :create

  private

  def generate_number
    prefix = "R#{Date.today.strftime('%y')}-"
    last_order_number_this_year = self.class.where("number LIKE ?", "#{prefix}%").order("number DESC").limit(1).pluck(:number).first
    number = last_order_number_this_year ? last_order_number_this_year.match(/\A#{prefix}(\d+)\z/)[1].to_i : 0

thbar

  def buckets
    [
      'myapp-production-backups',
      'myapp-staging-backups',
      'myapp-s3-logs'
    ]
  end

  def test_buckets_subdomain_private
    buckets.each do |bucket_name|

tvandervossen

Testing

Automated testing (even though still not widely used by Objective-C developers) would make 
refactoring much easier, faster and safer. Good test coverage would also allow maintenance 
to be done and new features to be added without first having to fully investigate the 
function of all parts of the codebase and the way these parts fit together. This especially 
applies when work is contracted out to developers other than those who originally created 
the application.

The lack of a comprehensive automated test suite is a real disadvantage. Adding one is 

sirupsen

if defined? ActiveRecord
  def explain(query)
    query = query.to_sql if query.is_a?(ActiveRecord::Relation)

    ActiveRecord::Base.connection
      .execute("EXPLAIN ANALYZE #{query}") 
      .to_a
      .each { |hash| puts hash["QUERY PLAN"] }

    nil

tvandervossen

Can you please answer the following questions so we can assess the project, 
and judge if we would be a good match?

1. Is this a new project, or is this for an existing website or application?

- This is a project for a completely new site or application
- This is a project to update an existing site or application

2. Which of the following areas do you need help with?

mbleigh

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem 'sprockets'
gem 'sprockets-sass'
gem 'sass'
gem 'compass'
gem 'bootstrap-sass'
gem 'handlebars_assets'
gem 'coffee-script'

madrobby

<script>
document.write('<script src=' +
('__proto__' in {} ? 'zepto' : 'jquery') +
'.js><\/script>')
</script>

voodootikigod

#!/usr/bin/env node

// this file is stored in a directory of APP_ROOT/script for me, all things are relative to that
var APP_ROOT = __dirname+"/../";

// this assumes there is a file stored in APP_ROOT called "config.js" with the following structure: 
//
// module.exports = {
//  "development: {
//    "postgresql": "tcp://postgres@localhost/dev-db"

r00k

My name is Ben Orenstein and I work at thoughtbot in Boston.

Notes will be published. 

I'd like to tell you a story. (5:42)
  I've never talked about this publicly.
  Umass.
  Second job.
    Version control.
  Successful since then.