Polymorphic Associations
Had my first interview with Thoughtbot today. The interviewer asked me a question about how I would handle having comments for different objects in a discussion board (Posts, Images, Articles). My answer was to have a bunch of foreign keys under a comments model/table. …
NoSQL Databases
I’ve started doing some volunteer work for Sparkrelief. Sparkrelief is a non-profit organization that makes software to help streamline processes of helping people in need (especially during disasters). Currently, non-profit companies are super inefficient at disaster relief. Process savings through Sparkrelief software can be measured…
Life after Dev Bootcamp
I graduated Dev Bootcamp last friday and I’m back in Denver. It’s been a week since I coded and I’m feeling very antsy. I reached out for help early this morning on my next course of action. In DBC fashion, I had responses within an…
Rails Routes
resources :photos HTTP Verb Path Action Used for GET /photos index-display a list of all photos GET /photos/new new-return an HTML form for creating a new photo POST /photoscreatecreate a new photo GET /photos/:id show-display a specific photo GET /photos/:id/edit edit-return an HTML form for…
Postgresql
Found out something about myself today. It seems I’m the person in the cohort who likes to ice skate uphill. What this means is that I make things unnecessarily complex in an effort to learn more. My side project this week is to build…
Day 1 Phase 2–It’s A New Day
Our instructors Zee and Strand are hands on and easily available. The group project we chose is a discussion application (similar to Reddit). We will be building the web application from scratch using a skeleton version of the Sinatra framework. This means using the…
My life at Dev Bootcamp for the past 3 weeks
This article describes exactly what my life’s been like for the past 3 weeks. http://skillcrush.com/2012/08/07/confusion-is-your-friend/
SQL Day!!
I can’t believe we’re in our third week at Dev Bootcamp. Today was SQL day and the exercises were challenging but good for learning. By 8pm I was mentally drained and needed to unplug. Instead of going home I decided to watch some comedy…
Day 6 at Dev Bootcamp
I realized today that there is A LOT of brain power in my cohort. We have a math teacher, a recursion expert, and a PHP programmer. Some of the other phases are noticing that the Tiger Swallowtails are solving difficult problems quickly. A…
Day 3 at Dev Bootcamp
Feeling a bit tired today. This will make 3 days in a row when I go to sleep after midnight. What I learned today: Regex groupings: /([aeiou]*)([aeiou].*)/ These regex groups (stuff in between parentheses) can be called in a string, “21ay” produces pig-latin….