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Hello World! Let’s talk about App Delegates

The following is a guest post by Dasmer Singh and originally appeared on his blog. Dasmer is currently in the iOS-000 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. For my first ever blog post, I think discussing App Delegates is extremely useful in iOS dev.  The App Delegate is instrumental in every iOS […]
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Meditations

The following is a guest post by Michael Polycarpou and originally appeared on his blog. Michael is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. He is considered as the last of the five good emperors and is also […]
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Flatiron School Weekend Three – The Tap Method

The following is a guest post by Samuel Owens and originally appeared on his blog. Samuel is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Today I wanted to talk about a couple ways I think the .tap method in Ruby is useful. The first time a lot of us […]
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The Ternary Operator

The following is a guest post by Patrick Janson and originally appeared on his blog. Patrick is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. In this post, I wanted to take a look at a conditional that I have used many times as a beginner but as our class has moved into object oriented programming, […]
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A Short Explanation of ARGV

The following is a guest post by Joe O’Conor and originally appeared on his blog. Joe is a Flatiron School alumni. You can follow him on Twitter here. I’d come across ARGV or ARGV[0] a few times while looking at code examples on StackOverflow or the Ruby mailing lists. I recognized it as a kind of placeholder variable, but did not really […]
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Dot(.) Send Me to the Moon

The following is a guest post by Logan Hasson and originally appeared on his blog. Logan is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. One of the greatest things about Ruby is its never-ending ability to momentarily bewilder you before exploding your brain all over your face. Whether it’s […]