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Database Column Type – Array

Database Column Type – Array

The following is a guest post by David Bella and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Okay, So More Like “List” Relational databases are a great way to store, well, related data, in a base. Often times, we have to store

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Self-Referential Associations, AKA Self Joins

The following is a guest post by Daniel Chang and originally appeared on his blog. Daniel is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Week 2 of learning Rails. After 6 weeks at Flatiron, I feel like a beginner again, but not quite like I’m stranded on a deserted

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Flatiron Day 25: Networking

Kicking-off week 5 we started the morning with pair coding on our class App LocationQuiz

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gem.first

The following is a guest post by Charlotte Chang and originally appeared on her blog. Charlotte is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. Click image below to access presentation…

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Objective-C Sins // Speaker Deck

Objective-C Sins // Speaker Deck Matt Bischoff's Homepage from Tumblr came by and talked to our iOS students about Objective-C Sins. Check out his presentation!

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Flatiron Day 19: Debugger Day

A project where we had to add NSFetchedResultsController and its delegate in order to fill a TableView with data.

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FASTER FIVE …on OSX

The following is a guest post by Sam Yang and originally appeared on his blog. Sam is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. OSX has some pretty handy shortcuts that a lot of users (especially those super adept at keyboard shortcuts and terminal) sometimes forget. Here are a

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Creating my first gem

The following is a guest post by Scott Luptowski and originally appeared on his blog. Scott is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. A few weeks ago, I built a Ruby script to find the current standings of the English Premier League and display them in the terminal.

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On Convention

The following is a guest post by Kyle Shike and originally appeared on his blog. Kyle is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. The use of convention in the programming ethos is a pretty remarkable thing. It exists outside of the ruthlessly binary computing process, and it ultimately

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Name Game Takeaways

The following is a guest post by Theo Vora and originally appeared on his blog. Theo is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. After 3 weeks at the Flatiron School, my teammates and I decided to embark on a mini project. We had dabbled in a lot of

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Autovivification in Ruby

Autovivification is the concept that a hash style data structure can make inferences about its internal structure as it is being created

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