Woman on Rails

For some time I do interviews. I'm not an HR person. I'm developer. I do technical interviews for my company. My responsibility is to check how experienced is the person which apply for a job. How this person fit to our team from technical and personal point of view. This process is not about being perfect. It's more about being honest. Finally team and candidate should be able to work together. Today I would like to tell a little bit about what I expect from person to interview. I would like to show my point of view on this kind...…

I think almost every programmer has his own favourite text editor. Some people like Vim, some people like Notepad++ and I love Sublime Text. There is a lots of useful shortcuts, snippets and plugins which allow in fast and easy way work with code or simple text. …

I worked in last a few days with each_with_object method. Every time when I would like to use some method in Ruby I try read documentation one more time and I look on some example of usage. This time I went through APIdock and I noticed that in theirs documentation is missing one very nice example of usage each_with_object method. I tried to add this missing part there, but without success. In meantime when I'm waiting for message from APIdoc support I decided to write short note here about this. …

It took me some time from last post. So many things happened: events, workshops, travel. But I'm back! Today I would like to share my thoughts about Web Summit. This is big conference (exhibition for startups). I was on this conference once in Dublin and now in Lisbon. I decided to come because as a Woman in Tech I got free ticket. Maybe because of that I should not talk about what I don't like. On the other hand I think when no one talks about disadvantage, conference can not be better next time. Too big for me In Ruby...…

I'm back on track. This time I would like to talk with you about maps. How easy we can work with maps nowadays. To be able to use maps on my website I will be using: Leaflet - JavaScript library for interactive maps Maps tiles Ruby on Rails (not required but you need to have at least some html file) So first things first. What are they maps tiles? In simple words they are small square images, which show a map. They are served in packages. So on our website we see many of them. How we can get tiles?...…

For me, there are two types of remote work. Synchronic and asynchronic remote work. Synchronic remote work is work from different places but in the same time. For example I'm working from 9am to 5pm in Europe time zone. Second one - asynchronic remote work is when you are working from different places and in different times. So, it is possible to don't have chance to talk with anyone through all day work. I only have experience in synchronic remote work. So this article will be about my feelings and my thoughts about this kind of remote work. Day by...…