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Git-tipping our Guest Speakers

Here at the Flatiron School we do our best to bring in the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, and tech moguls to come in and share their knowledge and experience with our students. As a way to show our gratitude we are now saying thanks with the help of Gittip. Gittip is “a way to […]
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Learning a Little Rails, the Second Time

Focus on the fundamentals first and foremost. Then move into a lighter-weight framework like Sinatra, and then give Rails a go.
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Rails Scales

The following is a guest post by Matthew Schmaus and originally appeared on his blog. Matthew is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here__. Although I just began learning about the magic and wonders of Ruby on Rails, I’ve heard for some time that Rails has issues with scalability once you […]
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Build a Blog-Based Site with RefineryCMS

So this post is a little more self-serving since I need to build a simple fashion blog for Stunable AND I want to learn some fun rails CMS solutions for my class at Flatiron School.
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Guest Speaker: Divya Narendra

Name: Divya Narendra  Job: Founder & CEO, SumZero, Inc. Site: sumzero.com Twitter: @divyanarendra @sumzero        What did you speak about to the Flatiron summer class?  I had two of our engineers come in to discuss the power of Active Record.   What was your experience learning to code – did you face any challenges […]
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Building a Mobile App Landing Page

To get ready for our launch, I created a new landing page to allow people to easily download the app.