Development

I've been using version control systems for years.  When you have to shift to a new one, it's not a big deal, right?  You just learn the new commands?Well, yes and no.

Today's wanderings in the land of making myself a better developer led me back to Katrina Owen's 2016 RailsConf talk "Succession."One thing in it struck me enough to capture in my commonplace

I'm doing some foundational review to make sure I'm on solid footing when I'm working on Rails – currently going through Software Carpentry's Unix shell for novices sequence – and there is this wee thing

I'm going to keep this post updated with additional resources as I find them – mostly to have a list of the things I haven't done yet.1/  theodinproject.com  I figure that I

I took an unintentional holiday Friday, but I'm back at it.  Today's task was to start wading through The Rails 5 Way.The first chapter is about configuration, so there was a fair

Today I was working at generalizing language in the Human Essentials App, and I came across "humanize".  Humanize is a method on string in rails that capitalizes the first word, turns underscores into

I happen to be undergoing some dental adventures whilst starting up this effort, so there is a certain amount of frustration at what I can accomplish in a day.Lining up some initial

Rails db:setup does not drop the database(s) if they already exist before creating them.If you want to drop the databases first, use  Rails db:reset.

I am on a  minor quest of sorts.I've been concentrating on my art, which I use C++ for, because it is fast, and I speak C as a native.  However,  I'm also