🥊 Newsletter WoR #23 : the last decade in tech, TDD vs TLD, the UX in Animal Crossing...
🥊 Newsletter WoR #23 : the last decade in tech, TDD vs TLD, the UX in Animal Crossing...
A bi-monthly newsletter about Ruby on Rails and the web.
In this issue we talk about the importance of documentation, we now know how hyperlinks became blue, we study the UX of error management in Animal Crossing…
👋 French issue (version française) | 🤌 Italian issue (versione italiana)
Web News 🗞️
We can admit we have been spoiled in December: we got the log4j memes (by the way you can find some explanations in this thread if you missed it), and also those about the AWS outages (here and here). Hopefully, 2022 will be smoother. 🙏
🛤️ Ruby et Rails News
Release of Rails 7.0! And already a tuto to make Rails 7 and Bootstrap 5 work together
A new Remote Ruby episode with Emily Giurleo et Jemma Issroff
The RubyConf 2021 talks are available online
Ruby Tip 💎
Ruby/ProgressBarSeeing the progress of a task will soon be easy-peasy.
Ruby-ProgressBar is a visual tool library enabling… a progress bar!
This progress bar made with text starts at 0 and increments 1 by 1 up to 100 every time the #increment method is called.
In the Web 🕸️
📜 The importance of documentation
Monica Powell just finished a series of articles about the importance of documentation: the first one is a gold mine of useful tools to create documentation, the second one is to encourage you to share your learning (the learning in public movement), and finally the third looks into how to take useful notes during your learning (with an introduction to the second brain).
✨ Using code as documentation to save time and share context, ✨ How to hone your new superpower: teaching, ✨ Your future self will thank you: Building your personal documentation - Monica Powell
💙 Roses are Red, Hyperlinks are Blue
In our Newsletter #17, we shared Elise Blanchard’s quest to know when and why the hyperlinks became blue. In this new article and thanks to the magic of the Internet, she comes back with THE answer about this cyan color so typical of the links.
✨ Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue - Elise Blanchard
Some Code 💻
🥊 TDD vs TLD
What is the best way to test our code? Valentina Cupać wrote some articles to compare both methods: Test-Driven Development and Test Last Development. The diagrams and use cases should help us see clearly.
✨ Let's compare TDD & TLD - Valentina Cupać
🧮 What We Keep of the Last Decade in Tech
Sure we are two years late to share this report, but with Covid do 2020 and 2021 really count? This article revisits a decade of tech evolution with some very well-known technologies we can’t miss today: types, SQL, Kafka, CI, Containers, Serverless, API economy…
✨ A decade in review in tech - Cindy Sridharan
Fun 🎉
🍬 A World Where Errors are Avoided
Maria Meireless wrote articles about UX in video games (The Witcher 3, Her Story, Baba is You, Mass Effect). We share with you the last one about Animal Crossings: New Horizons, it explains how errors are prevented in the game, because you know life is hard (😭), and a little bit of kindness is not too much to ask!
✨ Applying Usability Heuristics to Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Maria Meireles
Events 🎡
📜 Conferences and CFP 2022
This repo lists the upcoming conferences and CFPs for 2022. Aurélie Vache started this open-source project which will help us stay organized to not miss any important dates.
✨ Developer Conference Agenda - Aurelie Vache
🎯 Career Goals - Women Who Code London - January 20th
How do you see your career in the future? What are your opportunities? Winna Bridgewater will help you to see it clear, put words on your expectations to really reach your goals.
✨ Career Goals - Women Who Code London
⚡️ Lighting Talks - January 27th
Would you like to have the charism of a Hollywood actor during your first talk at a conference? Public speaking is something you can work on! The Lightning Talks sessions exist to give you the opportunity to practice and be more confident, in a safe space where you will have meaningful feedback to improve.
✨ January Lighting Talks - Women in Agile London
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Editors: Camille and Juliette
English translation: Aurelie
Italian translation: Paola