Flatiron School

Reblogged from Ruby 005 student Liz Baillie During my first two weeks at the Flatiron School, I was inundated with information. I spent so much time coding and learning about code that I actually started to dream about it. One night, I went to bed after watching one of the new episodes of Orange is […]

If Flatiron School alums weren’t as funny as they are super-talented, we wouldn’t see them hanging around hilarious coding events with armfuls of trophies. But, hey, guess what they did last weekend. They won Comedy Hack Day. All images from comedyhackday.org Grand Prize Ruby 004 alum Daniel Fenjves teamed up with fellow devs Dustin Nelson […]

Four months ago, Tristan Siegel was an aspiring archeologist and William Jeffries was an accountant. Fresh out of Flatiron School’s Web Development course, they’re already out to make something that matters. They started building Heat Seek NYC to help address the need for livable heating in NYC’s lowest-income apartments. As they learned, Landlords can lower […]

We’re really lucky to be able to host and attend a lot of events with the NYC programming community almost every day. Last week was no exception. We co-hosted a pretty huge Dev Stackup with Charlie O’Donnell, and grads from our most recent class got to share what they’ve been up to with NY Tech […]

This is a guest post by Dinshaw Gobhai of Constant Contact based on a talk he gave on campus To a developer, operations can seem overwhelming, mysterious, and sometimes just boring. ‘DevOps’ is everywhere, but what people are referring to? Is it tools? Is it culture? Is it something one can learn? The answer is […]

The following is a guest post by John Richardson and originally appeared on his blog. John is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Background: ADK 46-R The ADK 46ers are a set of 46 mountains in upstate NY higher than 4000 feet. If you climb all of these […]