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Let’s explore: what is a shell and terminal?

Posted on April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 by christine

Reading Time: 4 minutes I still feel new to the world of terminals, consoles, and yes, shells. Being a Java engineer for 12 years really didn’t expose me much to these concepts in my day-to-day work, but now as a Ruby on Rails engineer, it is my preferred way of interacting with my tests, servers, get and any other…

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What a developer needs to know about 2FA

Posted on January 30, 2020February 26, 2020 by christine

Reading Time: 5 minutes 2FA (two factor authentication, multi-factor authentication) has been a subject I have been deeply interested in for over a year now. It started when I started at Flywheel, and had an opportunity to work on the team that need to implement a 2FA solution. While researching for the implementation, I hit several dead ends with…

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A Month of Learning

Posted on December 31, 2019January 30, 2020 by christine

Reading Time: 5 minutes My month(ish) of learning So one of my goals has to been to dive deeper into Ruby and Rails, but as well as to try to learn a new thing, maybe technical, maybe not, every work day. And then to write that thing down. This was to help with accountability, you know actually doing it,…

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Engineering Bookclub – Pragmatic Programmer Chapter 8 Notes and Questions

Posted on May 24, 2019 by christine

Reading Time: 3 minutes So sorry this took a while to post, but let’s dive into the last chapter for The Pragmatic Programmer! As always, thank you to Ari Caplan of Dev Empathy Bookclub for letting me use questions from the book club. If you are looking for an awesome group of people to discuss books that can help…

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The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 7 Notes and Questions

Posted on April 19, 2019 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes Notes on Chapter 7, Before the Project All about what to do before starting a project. Seems like it is pre-agile methodologies. Since the agile manifesto came out 2001 seems to fit that timeline. Dig for requirements, don’t gather. They are on not the surface but deep under assumptions. A requirement is a statement of…

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The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 6 Notes and Questions

Posted on March 28, 2019 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes So my engineering bookclub is continuing on with Chapter 6 in The Pragmatic Programmer. We have had some stops and starts along the way. For chapters 4 and 5 we ended up combing the weeks because none of us were really feeling discussing chapter 4 (Pragmatic Paranoia). We did have to move Chapter 6 from…

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The Pragmatic Programmer – Chapter 5 Notes

Posted on March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes For our beginning notes to review and discuss for our book club choice, The Pragmatic Programmer, I used notes from Joe Hallenbeck. This was great for the first 4 chapters, but then I had to put in some work and start taking my own notes. These were just to help jog the memory for discussion…

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Engineering Bookclub – The Pragmatic Programmer

Posted on February 28, 2019 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m leading a book club at my workplace, Flywheel . We are working through “The Pragmatic Programmer From Journeyman to Master” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. Published in 1999 this books walks through techniques and tips to level up your development. Even being published more than 20 years ago (😱) there are plenty of…

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RubyConf Retrospective

Posted on November 19, 2018November 28, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: 4 minutes I made it through my first technical conference. There was a lot more socializing, networking, and partying then I every thought there would be. These were 3 loooonnng days of non-stop learning, meeting incredible people and being a part of an awesome community that I didn’t even know existed 6 months ago. Man, it is…

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The Calm Before the Conf

Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 by christine

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m attending my first RubyConf tomorrow in L.A. This really is my first technical conference that I have ever attended. It is awesome that my employee is putting the time and money into growing me, and I really hope that I can use this as a learning experience, as well as growing my knowledge about…

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