Sidekiq is useful for background Rails workers. Instead of tying up your rails server, it's better to handle certain processes asynchronously.

jQuery has a popular method for accessing the text contents of a targeted DOM node named [cci].text()[/cci].

As you work with JavaScript & jQuery, you will quickly get accustomed to wrapping your JS scripts with a DOM ready check.

Diving into jQuery source code, you'll find attribution for [cci]Sizzle.js[/cci] near the top. What is Sizzle? Sizzle is jQuery's spinoff CSS selector engine.

While watching Paul Irish : 10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source, his code at the 31:30 mark looks like similar to this: [cc] var times = [42, 28, 75, 50,…

This post is about how to get a valid JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) snippet from a Ruby Hash. In the world of Ruby, Ruby loves hashes.

While working in Ruby, I often find myself trying to get a count of the number of times each item appears in an array.

With a git workflow, you become used to commands like [cci]git add filename[/cci] and [cci]git commit -m "add filename"[/cci].

In Flatiron School, one of the first things we did was setup our bash) environment.

The first time you see the Terminal screen, it's very intimidating. "What am I supposed to do here How do I navigate?