April 2016
Rails + React + NPM: Another Option
Most of the instructions I found for combining react-rails with browserify-rails and npm modules were at least a year out-of-date. But I finally got it all working, and it turns out that it’s pretty straightforward. In this bog post, I’ll show you how to use the convenient react-rails helpers to build views while using browserify-rails to bring in npm modules where and when you need them.
Movie Night!
Collective Idea and the Hope College Computer Science Department are working together to host a screening of CODE: Debugging The Gender Gap in Holland, MI. You are invited to gather with us to watch this film in Winants Auditorium in Graves Hall on April 18th at 7:00 pm.
How We saved the TSA $185,200. I mean 185,200 Bytes.
The TSA paid $1.4 million for a Randomizer app that chooses left or right We can build it better.
Multiple Personalities in Git
At Collective Idea, we use Git all the time. Right now, I have 50 Git repositories cloned on my computer and they fall into a few categories. My problem is that I need to commit from a different email address depending on which type of project I’m working on. I explored three ways to do this, looking for the least intrusive.
