May 2012
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Fly me to the moon, let me code among those stars
Over the past several weeks, I’ve talked a lot about what I planned to build. Now, it’s time for me to spend a little time talking about what I have actually built. One of the things that help developers organize their project plan are user stories. A user story is pretty much a really high level description that describes what a user visiting your site can do and also what an admin of the site...
May 29th
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Challenge Accepted!
So here I am, exactly 1 month away from Demo Day and the end of Code Academy. Wow, time has flown by! Am I freaking out? Just a little.. I only traveled 2153 miles away from home, with no meaningful income for 3 months and a boat load of expenses. It certainly doesn’t help that there isn’t a coffee maker in my house, and there’s an Intelligentsia coffee shop 10 ft from our classroom....
May 22nd
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"If I can code, I can cook."
WEEK 4 There’s a good reason why I’m combining week 4 and week 5 into a single post and that reason is something that happened yesterday in class. I couldn’t wait till next week to tell everyone… Last week we covered a wide range of topics from DRY, partials, git hub, to model validations. The first topic DRY stands for “Don’t Repeat Yourself,” this is a methodology many in the development...
May 8th