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Deploying a Sqlite3 Database to Heroku for Production Using Postgres

The following is a guest post by Jordan Trevino and originally appeared on his blog. Jordan is currently a student at The Flatiron School. In this post I want to discuss how we deployed to production on Heroku despite having applications running sqlite databases. The problem Sqlite is a very easy database to setup, and hence, it […]
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Day 5: Making My Params First

The following is a guest post by Steven Brooks and originally appeared on his blog. Steven is currently a student at The Flatiron School. This is continued from a series on Steven’s pursuit to build his first app.
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Why Didn’t My Octopress Work?

The following is a guest post by Ruthie Nachmany and originally appeared on her blog. Ruthie is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here. My octopress blog works now, but it wasn’t working for a while. I’ve overheard from some of my classmates at Flatiron that they are experiencing this as […]
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Programming, Postmodernism, and Ruby’s Self

The following is a guest post by Kirin Masood and originally appeared on her blog. Kirin is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow her on Twitter here__. Upon first glance it seems as if coding and programming are subjects that exist independently of all other subjects. Closer observation, reflection, and a little bit of […]
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Learning About AJAX

The following is a guest post by Adam Waxman and originally appeared on his blog. Adam is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. As someone who loves UX and design, it is not surprising that I’ve been wanting to learn about JavaScript – the language of the browser that allows […]
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Tracking the Results of a Rails-Powered Survey

After officially entering the world of rails a couple weeks ago at the Flatiron School, I decided to start a personal rails project to solidify my skills.