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NYC Standup 8/22/2011: GroupMe Acquisition, RVM 1.7

Interesting Things GroupMe was acquired by Skype. Congratulations GroupMe! RVM 1.7 came out last week, with some big changes. The execution of the .rvmrc file in your project after a cd into the...

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NYC Standup 8/23/2011: Alias_attribute, AWS memcache, Syck

Interesting Things Ian and Ben pointed out that alias_attribute, a little-known Rails helper, can be used to alias a method for an ActiveRecord attribute. Alias_method will not work for this purpose....

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NYC Standup 8/24/2011: iTerm Time Machine

Interesting Things Ben discovered that Cmd+Opt+B is a magical time machine for iTerm, complete with a scroll bar for traveling back and forth in the buffer. He was quick to point out that this feature,...

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NYC Standup 7/18/2012

Interestings Array.new(size, obj) vs Array.new(size) { block } Array.new(size, obj) will duplicate the object, whereas Array.new with a block will call the block n times, resulting in different...

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Field Trip Chronicles: Pivotal NYC Hardware Hacking Club

Pivotal NYC’s resident solder-happy Arduino-slingers (Pivotal Labs Labs, if you will) took a field trip today to Hack Manhattan, a hacker space, garden, and science laboratory on 14th street near our...

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The simplest thing that could possibly work in Tetris

At Pivotal we practice a form of Agile software development descended from the original Extreme Programming (XP) created by Kent Beck et al. XP codifies many of our core practices including pair...

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