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In this year’s RailsConf keynote, DHH took on the idea of the tragedy of the commons and open source software development. The talk was less about writing code or the Rails framework and more about self actualization and transcendence.

When I meet with Turing graduates for coffee, I often ask, “What are you looking for in your first job out of Turing?” Most of these students answer by saying something like, “I am looking for a company with great mentorship.” Stop saying that.

By the end of this tutorial you will be able to submit pictures to a trained machine learning algorithm and get the image's classification as a response. In other words, we are making Jian Yang's Not Hot Dog app.

For many professional Americans, December is a time of winding down, reflecting on the past year, and spending quality time with family and loved ones. For teachers, however, and new teachers in particular, December can be quite the opposite.

I get junk email all the time. Lately I've taken to creating filters in gmail based on the sender of the email. In this guide I will walk through a Google Apps Script function I wrote to repeat this repetitive email cleansing ritual.

Teaching, like developing software, is comprised of skills and techniques that take time to master. This guide will cover a few tools in any good teacher's repertoire that will help you in common engineering situations such as code reviews, technical presentations, and of course, training up other developers.

RailsConf 2018 talks have been posted and here are the seven conference talks that I attended in person that I highly recommend.

What I Learned at RailsConf 2018 about being a Good Software Developer

My summary and take on DHH's Rails Conf 2018 keynote.

Here is a detailed tutorial on implementing a test-driven linked list in Ruby using recursion based on a classic project at the Turing School of Design - Perilous Journey. If you like Ruby, Linked Lists, and Minitest this post is for you!

In this post we will return to the Rails generate scaffold command to build full CRUD functionality for our genres model of our Bookshelf App. We will also create some scopes and methods on our new genre model to facilitate future reporting of reading metrics by genre.

In this third post in my live blogging series, we will refactor our app to take advantage of Rails 5.1 system tests.

Let's explore the rails generate scaffold command to implement full CRUD functionality with our authors model.

The first in a series of posts on a book review app side project. Join me as I create a basic CRUD app in Ruby on Rails.

Well written tests can drive the development of software, serve as a quality control mechanism, and document functionality for other developers working on the same codebase. Style matters when it comes to writing tests specifically because tests are documentation of how your methods and classes are expected to work. Specs that obfuscate the functionality under test are counter productive.

Here is a tutorial on how to group sql records by day.

A quick demonstration of ActiveRecord's update_all method.

I finished re-tooling my career at the Turing School of Software & Design this past January. Now at roughly six months in the world as a Turing Alum and two months as an engineer at Ibotta, I wanted to share some additional ideas with perspective code school students, current Turing students, and recent graduates.

I am excited to announce that I have begun developing a Google Sheets online course geared towards real world use cases for one of Google's most powerful and free tools.

I have spent the last nine months transitioning from the K-12 education space to the tech world. The ride was challenging so I want to outline some of the steps I took to help me make the transition from code school graduate to engineer.

In this post I will show a testing pattern that I used heavily as a student as well as the design pattern I now use in its stead.