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Mentally Reframing Ruby – Part 2

Mentally Reframing Ruby – Part 2

Using the blinking LED as an indicator, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could get my Ardunio talking with Gmail to alert me if I had any unread inbox messages.

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Mentally Reframing Ruby – Part 1

Mentally Reframing Ruby – Part 1

The Ardunio platform is based on a language (and environment) called Wiring, which is in turn based on C++ – quite a bit different from our pretty happy friend Ruby.

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How to Disappear

The following is a guest post by Joe Giralt and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. So you don’t trust the government and you want privacy. Assume the NSA pays 0.01cents per GB a month (which is 10 times cheaper than amazon) with a 20 million

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Creating Your Foundation

The following is a guest post by Joshua Collins and originally appeared on his blog. Josh is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. The three-week crash course in learning about computer programming leveraging existing teaching tools. Initial Greeting and Background Greetings and welcome to my technical blog. This is my

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Fumbling Around in Git With Fat Fingers

The following is a guest post by Micah Corn and originally appeared on his blog. Micah is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. As a babe in this programming excursion, I am always looking for help while I tool around. This has been very true with my playtime with ‘Git’.

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Programmer Of The Day: Grace Hopper

Today’s programmer of the day is Grace Hopper, computer scientist and United States Navy officer. She created the first compiler for a programming language, as well as one of the first modern programming languages COBOL. She served in WWII, and even popularized the term “debugging” when her team was removing an actual moth from a

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How I Learned to Code in 8 Months

The following is a guest post by Li Ouyang and originally appeared on her blog. Li is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can follow her on twitter here. When many people look at my resume, they’re often confused by my drastic career switch. They’re also confused by how much I’ve learned in the past

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First Ruby Motion App

I recently dived into rubymotion head first and since there is a definite lack of quality tutorials out there I decided to outline my first ruby motion project.

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Easy Datetime Comparison With ActiveRecord and Rails

The following is a guest post by Stephen Chen and originally appeared on his blog. Stephen is a Flatiron School alumni. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on Twitter here. TL;DR: Instead of creating or hardcoding your own DateTime and Date objects, use built in ActiveSupport methods in your ActiveRecord queries. Using ActiveRecord is great because

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How Params Works in Rails

As you might have guessed, params is an alias for the parameters method. params comes from ActionController::Base, which is accessed by your application via ApplicationController.

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Submitting a Pull Request

The following is a guest post by Kevin Curtin and originally appeared on his blog. Kevin is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. Last week I talked about the importance of conributing to open source documentation. Here is a quick guide on how to actually go through

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