Life is all about making mistakes and learning from them, right? Being a beginner is hard work, but it's also really exhilarating if you can accept that sucking at something is the first step to becoming really good at something. As Jake eloquently quoted ... So what's with the sappy intro?…
Recently, I have been trying learning Elixir and it has been quite the transition for me coming from Ruby. The toughest hurdle for me so far is understanding processes and how state is handled in Elixir. Primarily, the different ways messages are passed around between processes, because there are no…
In this blog post I will touch on how I created a bookmark style Chrome Extension that persists links to a database using a Rails API. I will cover the basics of setting up the skeleton for a Chrome Extension and get into how I used the Chrome API and…
All the Junk My last blog post dealt with verifying user email addresses using confirmation emails and unique tokens. Even if you read the blog, in which I laid out the majority of the steps, you are bound to make mistakes setting it up. Now, imagine how many mistakes I…
Project Mode It's project time for the students here at the Flatiron School, which means absolute madness has ensued. This is the time where you get to solidify some of the concepts you have been exposed to during the course of the semester, and also explore new concepts, because you…