Slack is a wonderful communication tool, I love how easy it is to get in touch with my co-workers, but it is also a huge time suck which I have become slightly addicted to. It is way to easy to start browsing through a channel, start checking on the pinned items (#living-vicariously, I'm looking at you), and then look up…
We just got through a full company retreat. Thinking back over my career, this might be the first company that I worked at that actually did one of those. I have down team things before, and had all company meetings, but not a full on retreat. It was great to see the entire company come together to work on a…
I have been working in Ruby and Rails a couple weeks now, but I don't know if I have been entirely happy with any of the editors/IDE that I have worked with. Coming from a Java background I used Eclipse/Spring Tool Suite for all my development work. I knew the short cuts, how to browse quickly and easily, and nothing…
Even though I may not be writing about it, I am continuing my deep-dive into the word of Ruby. At work I am mostly focused on Rails. My app is Rails, and the tickets I am working on are Rails (with some haml and scss thrown in, yay for learning some front-end development!). Currently I have been able to be…
I haven't been a Git user for a long time, I have just been actively using it since January. That may not sound like a long time, but for a developer using a tool for over 5 months is almost as much as some projects take (if you are lucky) or as long as a contract is. Since switching from…
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…
I learned new techniques and tools today, but they definitely aren't very relevant for my job but they were fun to work on. I just animated my first slack emoji today, and learned a ton in the process. If you too would like to be the rockstar on your slack channel, buckle in and I will teach you how to…
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.…
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…
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…
