Seeing in Code
Looking at code is very new to me. Before April ‘13, the only lines of code I had ever seen probably were in the Matrix.
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Smart-Kegs: Part II
The following is a guest post by Chris Gonzales and originally appeared on his blog. Chris is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here__. It’s Alive!!! (Locally) KegKong lives! In Smart-Kegs Part I we left off with our flowmeter and arduino sending incomplete readings to the raspberry pi with no database persistance. I
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Digging in the Dirt
The following is a guest post by Micah Corn and originally appeared on his blog.
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Building BikeWithFriends, Part One
The genesis of the app was really more an area of focus than anything specific. After completing Ashley William’s CitiBike excercise for class at The Flatiron School
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Deploying a Sqlite3 Database to Heroku for Production Using Postgres
The following is a guest post by Jordan Trevino and originally appeared on his blog. Jordan is currently a student at The Flatiron School. In this post I want to discuss how we deployed to production on Heroku despite having applications running sqlite databases. The problem Sqlite is a very easy database to setup, and hence, it
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Day 5: Making My Params First
The following is a guest post by Steven Brooks and originally appeared on his blog. Steven is currently a student at The Flatiron School. This is continued from a series on Steven’s pursuit to build his first app.
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Why Didn’t My Octopress Work?
The following is a guest post by Ruthie Nachmany and originally appeared on her blog. Ruthie is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. My octopress blog works now, but it wasn’t working for a while. I’ve overheard from some of my classmates at Flatiron that they are experiencing this as
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Learning About AJAX
The following is a guest post by Adam Waxman and originally appeared on his blog. Adam is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. As someone who loves UX and design, it is not surprising that I’ve been wanting to learn about JavaScript – the language of the browser that allows
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Open Source: How to Git Started
The following is a guest post by Chris Lake and originally appeared on his blog. Chris is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Look, Contributing to Open Source is Super EZ There are loads of ways to contribute to your favorite open source projects. I list out a bunch of
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Building a Mobile App Landing Page
To get ready for our launch, I created a new landing page to allow people to easily download the app.
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HCI – the Possibilities Are Endless
The following is a guest post by Carlos Lazo and originally appeared on his blog. Carlos is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. One of the things that has most fascinated me about the world of technology is our ability (and even sometimes, inability) to interact with computers. You hear
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Infographic: From Development to Production
After a long few weeks of boot camp I decided to give my left brain a rest, let my right brain drive for an evening, and memorialize Spike’s lecture in this infographic
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blogs… how do they work?
The following is a guest post by Max Jacobson and originally appeared on his blog. Max is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here__. I’ve been using this Octopress blog for a couple weeks and I’m compelled to figure out how it works and came to be. Let’s spelunk now. In
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What Should I Learn When Becoming a Web Developer?
The following is a guest post by Alex Au and originally appeared on his blog. Alex is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. How will you learn to program? What you learn first can determine your future as a programmer. As a novice, I can only speak to my experience.
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