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  • Tips for Jekyll development

    Posted on Dec 10, 2015
    jekyll-tips Continuing the WordPress to Jekyll series,
    I've decided to give a few Jekyll tips that I've learned in the process of converting my website.

    Jekyll serve at the speed of light

    Over 5 years, I've written quite a few posts, over 500 posts.
    To test Jekyll out (for development) you have to run the following command:

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    jekyll serve
    However, with 500+ posts, it takes about 70-90 seconds to build, which is annoying if you're making small tweaks,
    that take minutes to compile.
    There's a cool little trick to make compilation happen a lot quicker, by limiting the number of posts:
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    jekyll serve --limit_posts=3
    This will only compile the last 3 posts, which is enough for 99% of test cases anyways.
    The average compilation time with the limit_posts parameter is about 3-4 seconds.
    This is a great trick especially if you have a bigger blog with 1000+ posts.
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    Tagged with jekyll, wordpress, static
    Posted in Technology
  • Moving from WordPress to Jekyll

    Posted on Dec 3, 2015
    wp-to-jekyll

    Since last week you may have noticed something different about the website.
    Maybe it seems to load quicker, or it looks a tiny bit different, or perhaps you've noticed that the footer is much slimmer.
    The reason is: KidsIL has once again been transformed!

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    Tagged with jekyll, wordpress, static
    Posted in Technology
  • The Power of Silence

    Posted on Oct 29, 2015

    sheep_musicFor the longest time I’ve been working on my computer with a headset on.
    Most of the time it’s music, lately it’s been podcasts, but I keep going back and forth.
    For years now I have been able to work without any issue while listening to music, in fact, I find it very hard to work without it.

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    Tagged with distractions, silence, apps
    Posted in Technology
  • Karma, Mocha, End to End Testing or Unit Testing?

    Posted on Aug 6, 2015

    unit-testing2I was recently asked by a good friend of mine whether or not Unit Testing are a must, or should he just stick to End to End Testing.

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    Tagged with selenium, mocha, karma, unit testing, e2e testing, end to end, jasmine
    Posted in Technology
  • Double event calling problem in Meteor

    Posted on Jul 30, 2015

    Meteor_double_event_call
    Recently, when working with Meteor methods, I've stumbled upon an odd problem.
    While going into debug mode:

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    meteor debug
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    Tagged with mongo, mongodb, meteor, meteorjs, double event
    Posted in Technology
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  • Welcome to KidsIL

    A blog for Tech, Life, and beyond!


    Interesting ever-green articles of mine:
    • Fractional CTO - Why Your Company Needs One
    • How I got hacked in 10 hours on Google Cloud Platform
    • Getting Distance between 2 points with MySQL Query
    • Generating with MeanJS and Yeoman Generator
    • Python's virtualenv, Ruby's RVM and PHP's vagrant

    Take a look at Meteoro.
    A Pomodoro app built with Meteor.
    For those who like to work on their productivity.


    If you're into Django, feel free to mess with AgriCatch, the engine I've built for Berlin On Feier (events app) that grew well beyond the app, into a general data aggregation library.
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