Beyond the Quad

In response to Twitter feedback on our recent post “Goodbye, Sprockets! A Grunt-based Rails Asset Pipeline,” we at Pedago would like to share an overview of our current build and deploy process.

How to replace the Rails asset pipeline with a Grunt-based system: Part 1 of our build and deploy process.

We use Cucumber for integration testing our Rails servers, and by default all Cucumber scenarios tagged with “@javascript” pop up a browser. We needed to get this running headless so we could run these tests on our build machine. We use the Atlassian suite, and Bamboo for CI, running on EC2.

This is the second of two blog posts delineating the pedagogical approach of Herb Simon, the man credited with inventing the field of artificial intelligence, for which he won a Turing award in 1975. (Read the first post here.) Simon was a polyglot social scientist, computer scientist and economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University, He …

This is the first of two posts delineating the pedagogical approach of Herb Simon, credited with inventing the field of AI, for which he won a Turing award in 1975.

Given how useful the tinkering approach is for keeping learners motivated, how do we apply a similar approach to a subject like Finance?

How do you convince a skeptic that climate change is real? The documentary Chasing Ice takes on this challenge to awe-inspiring effect.