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. …
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…
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 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….
First Day of Dev Bootcamp
It was an AWESOME first day! First we introduced ourselves and got advice from the other cohorts. Then some team building exercises and lunch. Finally, CODING (pair programming specifically)! My roommates and me coded from 3pm until midnight. It was great to do some pair programming…
Day 2 Dev Bootcamp
Today I struggled mightily and wrote some really bad code. My first thought was to save the code, and keep working at it. Cooler heads prevailed, and I deleted the terrible code. Today’s advice is to delete bad code and love it. The moment…