Music for learning

So picture this, you are sitting down at your desk, loaded up your tutorial, terminal, editor and have muted all your slack channels, you are ready to go.  But now you have to figure out something to listen to so you can tune out everyone in your open office, but what should you load up? For me, I need something…

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The problem with starting

Sometimes there is just so much information and resources that making the first step takes a long time to decide, just because you don't where to start.  There are so, so, so many free amazing resources for learning ruby that I keep on getting distracted jumping from one to the other.  Today did not feel like the best learning day.…

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A new day, a new wordpress theme

I'm not only new to ruby, macOS, but also to WordPress. Since at my new workplace, WordPress is kinda a big thing, I knew that I needed to learn this too. I am still trying to get a handle on themes and how to edit the look and feel of the website. I want to keep it clean, really nothing…

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Ruby Koans – Day 1 Progress

Slow start at first, but I think I am picking up speed.  equals and == sucks, they mean the exact opposite that they do in Java.  Ruby, == is equivalence (.equals in Java), and use .equal? to check if the objects are the same (== in Java).  That'll probably hang me up for a while.  This resource from ruby-lang helped…

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Ruby Koans – Is this the path to Ruby enlightenment

Ok going forward I am trying out iTerm for my terminal and Visual Studio Code for my editor. Don't know if these are best practices or anything, but when I was trying to pull down code from GitHub in just the default MacOS Terminal, it felt clunky.  So I am running through the Ruby Koans tutorial because it seemed more…

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I’m starting a Ruby blog

It's 2018 so it seems like a good time to start a blog.  That's a thing still right? It must be if my default wordpress theme has it. So I find myself starting a new career. I did this to myself, so I only really have me to blame.  I am or I was a Java engineer.  It was what…

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