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
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
To get ready for our launch, I created a new landing page to allow people to easily download the app.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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’.
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
This post is about how to get a valid JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) snippet from a Ruby Hash.