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• October 02, 2016

  Structs: Some more Ruby (and a little C)

  I had a dream the other night about structs. I was a struct master (this is like being a ninja, only dorky). Are you relatively new to Ruby, but have a good handle on classes? Are you afraid of Structs, or haven't heard of them? This post is for y...

• April 10, 2016

  Return Values in Ruby: implicit, explicit, and puts, print, p

  I've been working a lot with people who are new to Ruby (and new to programming altogether), and a common theme is not understanding the values that are returned from Ruby methods, or that anything is returned at all, and what all this "return" bu...

• December 28, 2015

  JSON, XML and YOU

  So, I recently bombed a tech interviewIt’s true, I did. I’m pretty new to tech interviews, and I was caught off guard by some of the questions. One question was about the pros and cons of using JSON vs. XML to send and receive data through HTTP re...

• October 09, 2015

  How to teach yourself Swift in 8 days

  I don’t recommend this approachMy final project at Dev Bootcamp was an iOS app called breadCrumbs. We had just spent 15 weeks on Ruby and Javascript. No one in my group of three knew a thing about Swift, other than that it replaced Objective-C, an...

• October 09, 2015

  Working With CSV Files in Ruby

  comma, separated, valuesCSV stands for “comma separated values” and csv files contain rows of text. Each row has strings separated by commas. Each row, and the comma separated strings within each row, can be thought of as a single record in a data...