Denver Music Hack Day
Wanted to share my experience at the first Music Hack Day in Denver: http://denver.musichackday.org/ This is what my team built: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-denver-2013/hacks/makemeshake-dot-it Sorry about there being no audio on the demo. We attempted to upload the app to Heroku, but experienced problems with the JavaScript text/picture…
Equality in Ruby
== is equality of value. Typically overridden in subclasses to provide class specific meaning. === is the same as == but usually overridden in subclasses for use in case statements (Range, Regex, Proc). eql? is equality of value and type. equal? is pointer comparison (hash)….
CSS
Today I did Codecademy’s HTML & CSS course. Even though I know the CSS syntax it is interesting how my pages are still pretty ugly. I guess that’s why designers get paid. I learned a mnemonic device for the CSS box model Margin, Border, Padding,…
Object#send method and Lookup Tables
I placed my Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) Calculator code into StackOverflow for Refactoring feedback. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17417175/refactoring-feedback-for-reverse-polish-notation-rpn-or-postfix-notation My biggest issue with this problem was converting the input string operators (’+’, ’-’, ’/’, ’*’) into methods I could use for mathematical calculations. Enter the Object#send method. The…
Are Puerto Ricans happier than Americans?
I went back to Puerto Rico the week of 4th of July. Went to the beach on the 4th and saw many poor but happy people. Puerto Rico celebrates American and Puerto Rican holidays, so they have tons of holidays. I started to wonder who…