Clay Carpenter

Clay Carpenter


  • Introducing Angular Waiting Button

    Ten years on from the introduction of AJAX, the web is now full of asynchronous operations. AJAX itself made those async requests feasible, while Promises have been around for a while now to make handling async responses simple. When working…

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    Introducing Angular Waiting Button

  • Simulating Poor Network Conditions with Toxiproxy

    Naturally, developers build apps in environments where network connectivity isn’t an issue — frequently the connections stay local to the development environment. That’s fine for being efficient while building out code, but it can also lead to a false confidence about the…

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    Simulating Poor Network Conditions with Toxiproxy

  • Managing Environment Variables with Global and dotenv Gems

    At Unrelated, our Rails projects use dotenv to load environment variables for development and test Rails servers. dotenv reads a file (by default, the appropriately named .env) that contains a simple list of name=value pairs and loads each as a new…

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    Managing Environment Variables with Global and dotenv Gems

  • Thoughts After Building Our First Ionic 2 App

    One of the most impressive aspects of developing the Ionic 2 app was just how mature and stable both Ionic 2 and Angular 2 were. It came as a surprise; I had expected to run into far more difficulty during…

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    Thoughts After Building Our First Ionic 2 App