Category Archives: Development

Using the Latest Stable Version (v0.6.10) of NodeJS on Heroku

Update: you can also use nodejs-versions in the labs plugin. If you’re starting some NodeJS fun on Heroku, you might find that it is not using the latest stable version (as of today is v0.6.10).  To help fix this problem Heroku has provided the means to build your own buildpacks with the Cedar Stack.  This [...]

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Code Themes

Professionals work hard to keep their tools sharp and ready, and developers tend to be quite passionate about their tools. I’ve been looking at different IDE themes, and am curious as to what people might be using. I find myself leaning toward the Railscasts theme in Espresso.

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Clean Illustrator FXG Files

When saving Illustrator Files as FXG there is an option to “Save Illustrator Private Data”. Even with this option unchecked I find the resulting FXG file has more data in it I need for use in a Flex project. I have a quick regular expression to remove most of the unnecessary namespaces and data from [...]

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Clean Code Course Notes

AdobeXD brought in Robert Martin to teach a Clean Code Course over the next few days. Decided to post my notes as we are going along. I’ll keep posting my notes as we go along. Updated: day 2, Refactoring; day 3, Unit Tests.

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