I’ve recently started a podcast called “Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits.” I interview a different professional developer, with a different background, each week. They’ll let you know what parts of their education they think were good, which were bad, and which were worth emulating.
“When are...
I was recently on Jason Swett’s podcast again. He’s a great interviewer and I always have fun with him.
By Twitter request we talked about… When would you not use Rails? It’s a great question.
For the entertaining version, listen to the podcast. For the just-the-facts extra-complete version, I’m...
In this series I’ve built out a Rails app from scratch, deployed it and I’m this close to getting it actually useful.
Will today be that final bit to hit “useful?” I don’t know as I write this, but it’s getting closer…
Last week we built out subscription buttons, profiles for managing subscriptions...
In this series I’ve built out a Rails app from scratch, deployed it and I’m not too far off from getting it actually useful.
I’ve also had a nice photo shoot with my stuffed animals so the site’s a lot prettier.
I want to build email reminders. It’s the last major thing for the site. Unfortunately...
You can learn a lot about how much a man fears something by seeing what he will do to procrastinate instead of doing it. Paul Graham talks about “sneaking” out to get a root canal, feeling like he was getting away with it, to avoid a board meeting of his first startup.
I talked last time about how...
In this series I’m building courseware (teaching software) to let folks go through lessons in a better way than the simple email classes I use now. Last week we figured out how to track progress for a user in a topic using an AJAX call hooked up to a button and selector in the browser. It looks okay...
In this series I’m building courseware (teaching software) to let folks go through lessons in a better way than the simple email classes I use now.
It’s getting close to the point where random users could benefit from it. What’s it’s missing now are email reminders, being deployed (available to use...
I’ve been building a piece of Rails courseware, something to let people work through blog posts, videos and lessons I’ve written at their own speed. First I set up a simple Rails 6 app, then I prettied it up a bit.
Now it’s time to do something interesting with the actual lessons, which I’ve been...
Last time we talked about why I’m building course software in Rails from scratch, and built out a basic skeleton of database tables and a first trivial view.
Today, let’s add a theme, build out the view a little more and generally make it look better. I think “Let’s Build” series look better with...
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Over the years, I’ve accumulated a bunch of blog posts, YouTube videos, conference talks and so on, teaching the things I teach — Ruby and Rails programming, building web frameworks, raw coding technique and more.
I want to put...
Here’s a video about threads in Ruby - how do you code them? What are the problems with them? I’m planning a few more short videos about Ruby concurrency. I don’t think enough people have a good grasp of the tradeoffs and problems of running more than one chunk of code at once, in Ruby or in general...
