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Bootcamp - Week 7 - Summer in the City, Javascript in the City
My every day bike ride to school over Brooklyn Bridge People relaxing in Battery Park The energy at school is buzzing like a busy beehive...
What is the difference between $.ajax() and $.get()?
I've noticed that $.ajax() and $.get() seem to be used interchangeably. For example, when I make a request to the GitHub API to list a...
Sending Emails With Rails Application
You've set up your Rails app and want to send out emails to your users, for example welcome emails for sign ups or thank you emails when...
It all starts with 'rails new'
Week 6 into the bootcamp and we made an eCommerce site from scratch! Proudly Presents FlatironShop The Non-creepy alternative to...
Programmer's Worst Nightmare
You should know that there is one thing that scares budding developers to death: MERGE CONFLICTS on GitHub. They occurr when two people...
Bootcamp Life Week 6 - We can see the finish line...
What was happening this week? Some trivia first: What do bootcamp students do during their lunch breaks? Hangman! What do I have for...
Bootcamp Life Week 5 - Highlights
Another week has flown by. It was filled with learning, learning, learning, bike riding, eating lots of chocolate, some rain, but some...
Monkey Patching
When I was refactoring our Week 3 project, I was very motivated to create the DRY-est and most beautiful code there ever was. Scrolling...
Bootcamp Life Week 4
Time flies! I can't believe it is already the end of week 4! After the project week, we were going back to our self-study sessions. This...
Does ActiveRecord cache query results?
So I was building a basic CRUD app for the command line. It allows the user to create, read, update, and delete reviews for restaurants...
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