RSpec is an awesome tool for behaviour-driven testing. It’s mostly used in test driven development (“TDD”), where the developer writes the test based on what the application should do, and then creates the program to accomplish the goals of the test. At first, I found this tedious because it means extra work for me (the developer). But in the long…
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My Twitter Favoriter Experiment
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
I wanted to prove that favoriting semi-random tweets increases followers in Twitter. I wrote a “bot” that favorites tweets that contain hashtags that I’m interested in. For my own peace of mind, I didn’t choose mainstream or popular hashtags (ie. #KathNiel) because I wanted to have a set of quality followers. I’m sure there have…
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WordPress x NGINX
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
After being a complete pain in the ass, I was finally able to make both my blog.katpadi.ph and katpadi.ph work! WordPress x NGINX, bitch! Here are the things I learned (the hard way): The magic happens inside the “sites-available” directory. A file called “default” (it can be named anything) has the important stuff to be…
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Hello DigitalOcean!
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
It’s not uncommon for people to start from a shared hosting. I did! I used 1freehosting for quite a while until it couldn’t handle my stuff anymore. I mean, not the traffic, just the overall things that I want to do (and deploy). This week, I officially said goodbye to 1freehosting. (Please don’t judge me). Thnks…
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DxS: The Coffee Slayer
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
A clone of the game Heavy Bird created using the Phaser framework which is a clone of the widely-popular game Flappy Bird. It’s basically cloneception! Anyway, the main difference is that it doesn’t score up when you get pass a tower. It scores++ when you collect Starbucks drinks. I also made it shake and throw random blocks when you…
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Hackathon #2
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
I was part of another hackathon last weekend. This was my 2nd for the year. Same main sponsor, different result. My partner and I lost. #huhubels The hackathon event was called TadHack. GlobeLabs was one of the many remote sites that they partnered with. The event is a little bit different because the mechanics were…
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API Limitation Is Not A Cliché
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
Working with APIs can be both fun and a pain in the ass. This is a story of how I flirted with APIs and got schooled so bad. Facebook’s Graph API Facebook doesn’t have a search hashtag function but they have a search endpoint. Wait, they HAD a search post endpoint. Facebook apparently upgraded their…
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My First Hackathon Experience
by Kat Padilla • • 1 Comment
Last Friday (May 9, 2014), I attended my first ever hackathon. The event is part of the “The 1st Philippine TechCamp : Disaster Risk Reduction and Response for Resilience Building”. Anyway, I was lucky enough to be paired with Steve who’s a “veteran“ when it comes to these kinds of events. #TechCamp Hackathon Day 1 The…
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A-Footer-Link2Page-Widget
by Kat Padilla • • 0 Comments
A swaggy simple WordPress widget that lets you add a link of an existing page to your footer.
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I miss being bad and being corrected
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