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…
Category: Ruby
The Calm Before the Conf
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…
Code Documentation – before, after, and during coding
Sometimes you just need to started on some design for work on a larger ticket or new feature, you want to get your thoughts down and maybe start plotting out a code flow or some potential classes but what app do you reach for? So much of the time I reach for Google Docs, for…
Introduction to OpenStruct
Last week I had a task to start working with some CSV data pulled in from the database. There was already existing code working with the data, so I needed to make sure whatever changes were applied, that they were backwards compatible. The data was an csv representation of an array. The current code was…
Exploring Ruby IDE Options
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…
Update on Ruby and Rails learning experience
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…