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HTTPrime: What Can We Learn About Http Request-Response From a Steakhouse?

The following is a guest post by Matt Campbell and originally appeared on his blog. Matt is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. why must an http request be so confusing?! Look, we’ve all been there. When first setting out to learn about the Great Internets, one of […]
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10 Useful to Somewhat Useful Bash Shortcuts: Every second saved is a second earned.com

The following is a guest post by Brendan Manley and originally appeared on his blog. Brendan is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. 1. move cursor one word to the left: esc + b Isn’t it annoying that you often find yourself holding down your left arrow key […]
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On Convention

The following is a guest post by Kyle Shike and originally appeared on his blog. Kyle is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. The use of convention in the programming ethos is a pretty remarkable thing. It exists outside of the ruthlessly binary computing process, and it ultimately […]
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Creating my first gem

The following is a guest post by Scott Luptowski and originally appeared on his blog. Scott is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. A few weeks ago, I built a Ruby script to find the current standings of the English Premier League and display them in the terminal. […]
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Inheritance and Modules

At the end of last week, we discussed inheritance and modules. I needed to review it as not all of it had sunk-in at runtime-lecture. So here goes.
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Name Game Takeaways

The following is a guest post by Theo Vora and originally appeared on his blog. Theo is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. After 3 weeks at the Flatiron School, my teammates and I decided to embark on a mini project. We had dabbled in a lot of […]