by HELLO EVERYONE!!! It is May 10th, 2024, and you are reading the 10th Codeminer42’s tech news report (what a coincidence, right?!). Let’s check out what the tech world showed us this week!
Debugging in Ruby with pry-byebug – by Thomas Riboulet
The article discusses debugging in Ruby using pry-byebug, a gem that adds debugging and stack navigation to pry using byebug. It covers setting up pry-byebug, basic debugging with breakpoints, making small steps from breakpoints, advanced use cases like rewinding and replaying, adding breakpoints on the fly, and conditional breakpoints. The article also provides tips on finishing a debugging session and highlights the benefits of using pry-byebug for debugging Ruby code.
10 principles for creating a great developer experience – by Isaac Sacolick
The author talks about the importance of creating a great developer experience (DX) in organizations. It highlights the benefits of prioritizing DX, such as increased developer satisfaction, productivity, and innovation. The text provides 10 principles for creating a great developer experience. He emphasizes the need for organizations to focus on improving the developer experience to drive success in software development.
[TS] Consider type-safe localStorage – by Yuta Kusuno
This article talks about type-safe local storage in a frontend project but can also be applied in backend projects, focusing on handling different data objects and implementing custom storage classes. It explains the design of the ItemsStorage class, validation functions, and a demo page for interacting with local storage. The author shares insights and lessons learned from this experience and provides a link to a repository for further exploration.
Oracle unveils AI-powered coding assistant – by Paul Krill
One of the biggest cloud companies, Oracle, has introduced its own AI-powered coding assistant, the Oracle Code Assist, that offers context-specific suggestions tailored to an organization’s best practices and codebases. The tool can be used for writing, upgrading, and refactoring code in various programming languages and is optimized for Java, SQL, and general application development on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It aims to improve developer velocity, code consistency, and optimization through tailored suggestions, code origination context, automated language upgrades, code analysis, and OCI optimization suggestions.
Mastering Relational Database Design: A Comprehensive Guide – by Louai Boumediene
In the current data-driven era, businesses and organizations of all sizes need to store and manage information efficiently. In this blog post, the author deepens into the fundamentals of relational databases, their management systems, and the principles that underlie effective database design.
How is Flutter Platform-Agnostic? – by Obum
This blog post aims to answer us how Flutter is a platform-agnostic framework that allows developers to build applications for multiple platforms from the same codebase. Check it out and discover how this amazing framework does this.
How Do Closures Work in JavaScript? Explained with Code Examples – by Asoluka Tochukwu Austin
The author explains the concept of closures in JavaScript using a human relationship analogy. It describes closures as when a child function retains access to variables from its parent function even after the parent function has been removed from the call stack. The post also explores the concepts of functions being first-class citizens and higher-order functions in JavaScript to help understand closures better.
Decoding Chaos: How True Randomness Works in Software Engineering – by Gor Grigoryan
This blog post talks about the importance of randomness in software engineering, particularly in security, testing, and simulations. It explains how randomness is generated, including through true random number generation and quantum computing. The future of randomness in software engineering, including the potential of quantum randomness, is also explored. The text also covers topics such as Chaos Monkey, cryptographic systems, and Monte Carlo simulation.
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models – by Stack Overflow
YEAH! The long-awaited partnership between Overflow and OpenAI is real! (At least by whoever writes this text). They have announced a new API partnership that will combine the strengths of Stack Overflow’s knowledge platform with OpenAI’s language models for AI development. The partnership will provide developers with accurate and vetted data to quickly find solutions to problems. OpenAI will utilize Stack Overflow’s OverflowAPI product to improve model performance, while Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models to develop OverflowAI. The first integrations and capabilities from the partnership will be available in the first half of 2024.
JavaScript Visualized – Execution Contexts – by Lydia Hallie
Our friend Lydia Hallie presents us with the JavaScript execution contexts, highlighting how new contexts are generated when scripts are loaded or functions are called. She delves into key components like realm, global environment record, lexical environment, and variable environment. Moreover, she contrasts variable declaration with let, const, and function declarations, and elucidates function invocation and the creation of execution contexts. The importance of hoisting, scope chain, and closures is also emphasized, illustrating their role in enabling access to outer function variables.
Windows Terminal Preview 1.21 Release – by Christopher Nguyen
The Windows Terminal Preview 1.21 release introduces new features like Buffer Restore, font fallback, Scratchpad, and the ability to load an image as a texture. It also includes new font settings, advanced settings in the UI, rendering updates, IME integration improvements, and support for custom box drawing and PowerLine glyphs.
Effective Testing in JavaScript – by Ashley Davis
The blog post discusses the importance of testing in JavaScript development, emphasizing the need to catch bugs early and refactor code safely. It suggests testing techniques such as output, visual, and manual testing followed by automated ones, integration testing REST APIs, and frontend testing with Playwright. The author also highlights the value of thinking about tests before coding and the importance of delivering valuable and reliable code to customers.
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And that’s all for this week! Wish you all a great weekend and happy coding!
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