Programming is not about what you know. It’s about what you can figure out.
First day of Dev Bootcamp just finished and this will be the first in a daily series with my interpretation on the day. Boy did we cover a lot. Shereef talked for a good chunk of the morning and let...
View ArticleDay Two: Enter Recursion
Day two comes and goes like a whirlwind. We are assaulted with knowledge and even though I felt like I worked my butt off to prepare for this brain slap, I’m not feeling so much like that anymore. It...
View ArticleTake the Damn Tissue Box!
We started off the day strong with a talk given by Shereef on how to solicit, receive (see i before e except after c Shereef), and give feedback. I find myself cringing just a little at the thought of...
View ArticleSomeday I want to…
Today I gave my first lightening talk on a little “quirk” in IRB. Quirk is in quotes because I think it makes sense to Rob, but it didn’t really seem to make sense to anyone else. Inside IRB, at what...
View Article['this', 'is', 'all', 'yes'].each(&:capitalize!)
A week has come and gone and we are 10% done with our Dev Bootcamp experience. Reflecting back on the first week, I’m confident this is a very special group of individuals. Half of my goal here is to...
View ArticleOAuth Schmo-auth
I gave my first breakout talk today to give a few people an introduction to the awesome IRB alternative, Pry. This REPL gives you a slew of new tools to add to your tool belt, such as the ability to...
View ArticleGithub API Wrapper for the Win
I went into DBC today to work on JavaScript. It started as a JavaScript at least. It ended in an all out battle between myself and the Github API/OAuth2 gem. I decided to expand my Tumblr follow app to...
View ArticleA whole new world…
I now know Jasmine! Well… I know the fundamentals of Jasmine, which probably not by coincidence, reminds me a lot of Rspec, which I know pretty well already. In what turned out to be a testing themed...
View ArticleEverlane’s Interview Challenge…Solved
Last night Matt sent out an email to everyone. Ruining my chances for a good night’s sleep, it hosted the prescreen interview challenge Jesse gives out to prospective employees at Everlane. There...
View ArticleTeam Coding
It’s getting nearer to the end of week 5 here at Dev Bootcamp, and we’re now working in groups of 4. This has been a very educational experience because I’ve never actually worked in groups larger than...
View ArticleThe Warm Embrace of Vim, Part 1
There’s a lot to Vim, way too much to put into just one post so I’m going to do this in two but don’t let that deter you. You can learn the basic idea in a few hours. The muscle memory required...
View ArticleThe Warm Embrace of Vim, Part 2
In part 2, we’ll talk about how to really get Vim to work for you. As I’m a student of Ruby, a little bit of the material will be geared towards the practicing Rubyist. For the most part though, it’s...
View ArticleWisdom from Eloquent Ruby: From Oh? to Oh Yeah!, Part 1
I started my Hawaiian vacation off this week with the stellar book Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen. I’ve read a few Ruby books and they usually take one of two forms: They are tutorial type books that show...
View ArticleWisdom from Eloquent Ruby: From Oh? to Oh Yeah!, Part 2
In Part 1 in this series of posts, I showed you my highlights and notes from Chapters 1 – 9 in Russ Olsen’s fantastic book Eloquent Ruby. This week I’ll be posting them from Chapters 10 – 19. This post...
View ArticleWisdom From Eloquent Ruby: From Oh? to Oh Yeah!, Part 3
Metaprogramming. Wait! Don’t go. As a newbie rubyist (a nubyist?), up until about a month ago that word would have inspired me to unceremoniously click the Instapaper button, where the article would...
View ArticleTossing Out IRB for Pry
This week I spent some time learning how to use Pry. For those of you who haven’t tried this wonderful alternative to IRB, spend two hours with it. You’ll never go back. I won’t be hitting on all the...
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