Both R and Python are incredibly good tools to manipulate your data and their integration is becoming increasingly important. The latest tool for data manipulation in R is Dplyr whilst Python relies on Pandas. In this blog post I'll show you the fundamental primitives to manipulate your dataframes using both libraries highlighting their major advantages […]
Author: mottalrd
Upload video files with progress bar using Rails, Paperclip and Javascript
Rails does not help much when dealing with AJAX uploads by means of external JS libraries. I recently came across a case where a user on www.codementor.io was struggling to use JQuery-upload-file to upload a video to a Rails backend. The main reason to use the library was the progress bar feature, something that is […]
Understanding the Resque internals - Resque::DirtyExit unveiled
If your Resque jobs fail because of a mysterious Resque::DirtyExit a quick tour of the Resque internals will help you fix the issue and be back up and running in a matter of minutes.
Bringing Ruby fetch to the Javascript world
If you are a Rubyist you are probably comfortable using the fetch method on a day-to-day basis but when you are developing in Javascript this sweetness is not immediately available. This is why I wrote underscorejs-fetch.
Refactoring a complex Javascript calendar
Frontend components are hard to implement and more often than not the code reflects this complexity. In this blog post I will show you how I refactored the code of a complex frontend calendar sharing some of the findings that led to a cleaner implementation.
A journey through a Web App optimization session
Fast web apps are beautiful to use and are one of the key requirements for a successful user experience. Not only, if you are running an e-commerce business being faster also have a great impact on revenue. Here I will show you how to analyze and speedup the performance of your web app for two […]
Compute property recommendations: A collaborative filtering approach
In this blog post I'll show how to build a simple recommendation engine for apartments. What are the possible design choices, how to implement them in practice, and how to validate the performance of your system.