References

A repo of subject-collected references that I find useful.

Ultimately, this sort of thing is deeply personal, but maybe this is useful to someone else.

Subhead	Topics
General	Tutorials
Languages	Ruby, rspec/capybara testing, SQL, JS
Web	HTML, CSS, JQuery, Backbone, HTTP
Frameworks	Rails, Canvas
Tools	Git, helpful gems, install pages, further readings
Style	Style guides for many languages
Environment	Mostly bash/terminal stuff
Practice	Fun stuff to get you more handy with tools
Snippets	Snippets I've found myself searching for

General

• Tutorialspoint, a hub for many different resources

Languages

Ruby (version 2.1.5)

• Ruby Standard Library
• Ruby Core API
• Classes
  • Object: everything in ruby is an object.
  • String
  • Enumerable: a common mixin for enumerable objects.
  • Array
  • Hash
  • File / IO
• Ruby doc, a central place for finding .gems and their associated documentation
• Ruby docs, a searchable hub for ruby and rails API

Testing

• Rspec
  • home
  • matchers
  • core
  • expectations
  • mocks
  • ...and Rails
• Capybara API
• FactoryGirl
• Faker API

SQL

• Postgres
• SQLite
  • SQLite Command Line
  • SQL as understood by SQLite

JavaScript

• Javascript Hub on MDN
• Underscore, utility functions for JS

Web

HTML

• HTML 5 Semantics Tags
• HTML elements
• HTML tags
• DOM events

CSS

• CSS 2.1 Property Table
• CSS 3, but you should probably stick with 2.1 mostly
• CSS Specificity Calculator
• SASS

JQuery

• JQuery API
• JQuery UI API

Backbone

• Backbone API
• Backbone annotated source
• Underscore API

HTTP

• HTTP methods: GET, POST, PATCH, etc.

Frameworks

Rails

• Rails API
• Rails Guides, click the dropdown on the top right for more.
  • There are a couple that are really good and merit reading all the way through.
• Rails status codes, semantic HTTP Status Codes

Canvas

• Canvas hub, MDN
• Intro to Canvas, an excellent book

Tools

• Homebrew, painless compilation and updates
• rbenv, ruby environment manager
• Git
  • Pro Git
  • Git Ref
  • Gitready, a reference of neat tasks/commands
  • Git cheatsheet, a really neat visual git reference
  • Git immersion
• rspec/testing
  • Guard
  • Faker
  • Capybara
  • Shoulda matchers
• SQL
  • Use the Index, Luke, how to make effective use of SQL indices
• Rails
  • Foreigner, for adding foreign key constraints to rails
  • Draper, for decorating model objects
• HTTP
  • Postman, a chrome extension for making HTTP requests
• HTML
  • The SASS Way, readings about using SASS
• Bootstrap
• Chrome dev tools

Style

• Ruby style
• Better specs with Rspec
• How I write SQL
• Rails conventions: model, view: singular; database, controller: plural
• Crockford JavaScript
• JQuery Style Guide
• Github Markdown
• Advanced Github Markdown

Environment

Shell

• readline
• bash programming
• advanced bash
• unix shell

Practice/Inspiration

General/Math

• Project Euler
• Coding challenges (several)

Language specific

• Dr Eval, JS specific game
• SQL zoo
• Ruby Warrior, AI practice in ruby
• CSS Diner, selector practice
• jQuery Fundamentals

Tools

• Git "game"

Pinterest

• CSS Zen Garden

Books

• Course books

  • Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu
  • Effective JavaScript by David Herman
  • Backbone.js on Rails by thoughtbot

• General

  • Code Complete
  • Design Patterns
  • The Algorithm Design Manual
  • The Art of Computer Programming

• Software Engineering/Operations

  • The Mythical Man-Month

• Professional/job search

  • What Color is Your Parachute?

• Other

  • Butterick's Practical Typography
  • Dreaming in Code
  • Dataclysm

Snippets

• Git reset authorship:
  git filter-branch -f --env-filter "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='your_full_name'; GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='your_email'; GIT_COMMITTER_NAME='your_full_name'; GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL='your_email';" HEAD
• create new rails project: rails new project_name --database postgresql
• rails initial config (can probably be automated)
  • database.yml
  • Gemfile