I’ll admit, when I started taking my Rails project and adding JavaScript, it broke my heart a little. I loved where I had left off and I had big plans for how to expand it. I could see it all...
There’s enough pressure going into an interview. You don’t need to be unprepared too. Feeling anxious about my upcoming job search, I turned to the hive mind that is Twitter. Here’s what I learned:
So we have our models and associations, but before we really start to code, we need to get a better idea of what information these models will hold. When we look at the schema, it gives us a picture of...
I like to think of associations as relationships. How is this model related to that model? If they met each other on the street, and their friend was there, how would they describe their relationship? The most common relationships are...
Look, if you’re a parent, I don’t have to tell you that life is hard with kids. It’s hard when they’re a baby, it’s hard when they’re adolescents, it’s hard when they’re teenagers. It’s hard. But let’s add to that....
I have a love-hate relationship with my trauma. I hate it because of how it stopped my life for so long, how it prevented me from being myself, how it made me feel like I was stuck in this bubble...
When I woke up last January 1, I didn’t set out to code for a whole year with no days off. I didn’t set out to code in my car on long trips, to go to my first tech conference,...