Bottom Line - Ask for feedback after your rejection. Find the common threads, fix them, and get better at the interview game.

Bottom Line - Don’t involve the reviewer prematurely in product management / feature iterations.

I use Pry on a daily basis while writing / debugging code. I want to show you how to go beyond a simple breakpoint with pry. I’ll show you how I use it to learn about unfamiliar code and how to debug code.

I can’t be the only one who occasionally tries to start rails server and gets:

Bottom Line - Practice SQL by solving real problems.

Bottom Line - Don’t waste the reviewer’s time. Don’t make them over-think about things you should have provided ahead of time in the pull request description.

Forms are a huge part of a dynamic website. It’s through forms that you take user input and do something with it. It’s worth taking time to understand how to build different types of forms with rails.

I had a problem where fonts were loading fine in development environment but were failing to load in staging / production.

To know how the internet works, we looked at how the HTTP protocol worked. Let’s take a look at the two parts of HTTP: Request and Response.

Becoming a software developer forced me to learn the command line interface. At first, I strongly resisted. Coming from windows GUI — the command line looked like an ugly remnant of 1980s computing.