I'm Attila. I'm a senior full-stack freelancer, an ex-Londoner who worked previously for @terracycle, @ubxd and @lastfm. My focus is on high quality output using agile development, Ruby/Rails and JS.
I'm Attila. I'm a senior full-stack freelancer, an ex-Londoner who worked previously for @terracycle, @ubxd and @lastfm. My focus is on high quality output using agile development, Ruby/Rails and JS.
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I have seen this being a common question across newcomers to Rails. When you are adding a new column to an existing table with a non-null constraint, you start writing a migration as follows: This will raise a PG::NotNullViolation error as postgres is smart e…
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As part of my attempt to learn more about Phoenix I decided to write a Phoenix application backend to the infamous TodoMVC example using ember-cli and the JSON API standard. There are a few examples out there how to set up communication between an Ember applic…
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As part of my ongoing effort to evaluate FreeBSD as a server OS I took the time to see what it takes to replace OpenSSL with LibreSSL for increased system security. I'm sure most of you are familiar with the beast that OpenSSL is and I wanted to see whether co…
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As it occurred to me that some people don't quite realise how they can tame their npm to behave like a good UNIX citizen. What do I mean? Well let's look at my ~/.npmrc configuration: ~/.npmrc is loaded and interpreted every single time you run an npm command.…
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In this post I'll show you what umask is and how to use it to set more appropriate and more restrictive permissions of newly created files on a FreeBSD system with the intention to increase the level of security. If you have used UNIX you must know about permi…