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How does yield work in application.html.erb
You'll encounter this in new Rails apps inside your application.html.erb: <body> <main> <%= yield…
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Rich Stone Input Output
AHA-moments for developer brains.
Success Stories
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Things you can and cannot do
Recently, my new company WebinarGeek forced me to do a webinar about myself. Actually, you could choose any topic, but…
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Ruby
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Ruby Open Source Projects For Beginners
Open-source is the greatest opportunity to gather real-world experience while you are still on your journey of getting into the industry.
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Career Tips
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3 Phases For How To Get A Job As A Web Developer By REAL Example
We'll see 3 phases that I just made up while looking back and recalling his journey. They are intertwined, but the time investment usually crucially shifts in one direction once a new phase really starts.
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Coding Challenges
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Crush Your Coding Challenges With REAL Test-Driven Development
Most coding challenges exercise more your coding/syntax and problem-solving skills and less your analytical and anticipation skills, not to mention your ability to do Test-Driven Development as a discipline. Let's see how to change that!
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Live Stream Coding
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Why Live Streaming Coding & Writing Small Programs!?
In my prior life as a professional live poker player, game streams, online and offline, were some of the most powerful learning opportunities that I had. The same is true for programming...
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Newsletter
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Mixed Thoughts Newsletter: Hi Alan, Let's talk Ruby APIs tomorrow, and much more
Some mixed thoughts about recent topics and future endeavors 🚀
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Ruby
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Ruby multi-line string hell 1
Ruby developers don't usually hate things about Ruby. But there's one thing that seems to be more complicated at times…
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[Part I] Ruby Freedom Stack Web App - Sinatra - MongoDB - Heroku - Minitest
Are you an (aspiring?) Ruby developer looking for some freedom for your web app or API ideas? Or maybe you…
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Success Stories
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Junior Success Story - Ricardo DevOps Engineer
Ricardo got in touch with me because was on his way to be a part of the Software Engineering world. He didn't have a big portfolio of hard assets yet...
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How to start learning Ruby? (timeless resources and techniques)
It's a very short compilation of the resources I found most useful when I started to learn Ruby a year ago. Use them to start, continue, and get unstuck!
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JavaScript
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How to understand JavaScript?
There is no way around acquiring knowledge about JavaScript and gaining experience in writing it.
However, the more you think, eat, and sleep JavaScript...
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