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7 Habits of Highly Effective Programmers

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You hear a lot of books and videos mention a lot of things about habits these days. I believe that’s worth doing because habits are behaviors that we do consistently on auto-pilot without thinking too much about them, whether we like them or not.

As such, we need to be aware of unproductive habits and only build productive ones.

To help with that, I recently published an article on TowardsDataScience publication that I hope can help with that.

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Save countless hours from YouTube by hiding recommendations with this Chrome extension

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I have already written about a really helpful Chrome extension that can be used to hide recommended videos on YouTube, but I wanted to write about it once again, as I want to emphasize something that may have slipped unnoticed in the first article. This Chrome extension does not hide recommended videos on the right side of the video that you are watching, but also on the homepage. I learned about it only a few months after I initially started using it and the reason for that is because you have to manually go and turn on this option for yourself.

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Get informed about best free online courses at Class Central

A lot of learning is now done online without having to pay an expensive monthly subscription fee. Massive Open Online Courses, also known as MOOCs, have gained popularity in recent years and the number of people that attend them is really high.

As time goes by, the number of MOOCs only increases, so it can be hard to choose the courses that you want to attend and also have an initial impression about the reviews of others for that particular MOOC. For these and many other things related to MOOCs, Class Central can be very valuable.

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Free Udacity Nanodegree courses: Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree, iOS Developer Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, and More

There are so many things that we can learn, and so many resources that we can choose to learn from that it makes it really challenging to choose the right resources that can help us get better jobs, or improve our careers in general. Udacity offers many nano-degrees that we can use to level up our careers with courses that are organized and prepared to help us progress from a beginner level to a more advanced one with quality content. Students who manage to finish the projects get the degree and are guaranteed to get a job related to the degree. If you cannot afford paying for these nanodegrees, fortunately, you can still attend many of the courses that belong to these nanodegrees, without having to pay anything.

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Add translations fields in RailsAdmin using rails_admin_globalize_field gem

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In the last post, we saw how we can translate a variety of dynamic contents that we may have in our Rails applications using globalize gem. There is another complementary gem to globalize that can be used to do these translations inside Rails Admin, which make it a lot easier and simpler to insert these translations inside RailsAdmin’s user friendly interface.

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Build a Cryptocurrency Comparison Site using Ruby on Rails and TDD

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I recently had the pleasure to publish my first article at Scotch.io, which is a very popular platform. It is one of the longest articles that I have written so far. It is a written tutorial on how to build a cryptocurrency site in which you can see the changes of values of BitCoin, Ethereum and NasDaq overtime. The project accompanying this article is developed with Ruby on Rails using Test-Driven Development (TDD). Continue reading

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