Development Small Shifts 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.
Development Something to ponder 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
Development Today's Tiny Learning #2 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
Development Additional Resources 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
Development Day... 5, I guess 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
Development Day 4 - A Quibble -- or CL is Irritated. 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
Development Day 3 -- Initial resources 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
Development Today's Tiny Learning #1 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.
Development Beginning again 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