How to extract information from interview rejections
Bottom Line - Ask for feedback after your rejection. Find the common threads, fix them, and get better at the interview game.
How to iterate less on code reviews
Bottom Line - Don’t involve the reviewer prematurely in product management / feature iterations.
Intermediate Debugging Ruby on Rails with Pry
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.
How to kill a rails server
I can’t be the only one who occasionally tries to start rails server
and gets:
Practicing SQL through examples.
Bottom Line - Practice SQL by solving real problems.
How to make good pull requests
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.
How Ruby on Rails Forms and Nested Forms Work.
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.
Tips on importing fonts in Ruby on Rails
I had a problem where fonts were loading fine in development environment but were failing to load in staging / production.
How HTTP Request / Response Works
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.
How to use the Command Line Interface
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.