Talk - Stop Building the Backend by Kelly Andrews

http://nobackend.org/

jquery - find out if a checkbox is checked or not

$('#my_checkbox').is(':checked')

Rails related

http://www.mitchcrowe.com/10-most-underused-activerecord-relation-methods/
http://www.justinweiss.com/articles/rails-5-module-number-prepend-and-the-end-of-alias-method-chain/

Interview Questions site

https://www.interviewcake.com/

Sample question: write code for getMaxProfit

var stockPricesYesterday = [10, 7, 5, 8, 11, 9];

getMaxProfit(stockPricesYesterday);
// returns 6 (buying for $5 and selling for $11)

Curated reading list by devs in RSS format - Devs and Hackers

http://www.linksbydevs.in/

Pursue a completely free, online, CS education.

1) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BD8BJJUNaX63m2QmySWMGDp71nx4W4MyyiIBlfM
oN3Q/htmlview?pref=2&pli=1&sle=true

Was posted on https://www.reddit.com/r/programming by jzeal

2) OSS - https://github.com/open-source-society/computer-science

3) MIT courses - https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/

Great quote about how to train & treat employees

"Train people well enough that they can leave. Treat them well enough that they won't want to." -- Richard Branson

Unix Philosophy

http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/ch01s06.html

Excerpt:

Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes and one of the founders of the Unix tradition, had this to say at the time [McIlroy78]:

(i) Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features. 

(ii) Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don't clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don't insist on interactive input. 

(iii) Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don't hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them. 

(iv) Use tools in preference to unskilled help to lighten a programming task, even if you have to detour to build the tools and expect to throw some of them out after you've finished using them.