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Guest Speaker: Sandi Metz
A very special thanks to Sandi Metz for stopping by today and encouraging the Flatiron students to continue their pursuit to learn to code! “The appearance of confidence is better than confidence itself.” “__There’s a challenge between getting good at what you do and paying attention to the winds of change.”
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Horcruxes or Repos? A Git Guide to the Perplexed
The following is a guest post by David Manaster and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on twitter here. It’s been an exciting first week at Flatiron School! By far the most confusing thing for me to date has been Git. So I’m going to dump everything I know […]
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Fumbling Around in Git With Fat Fingers
The following is a guest post by Micah Corn and originally appeared on his blog. Micah is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. As a babe in this programming excursion, I am always looking for help while I tool around. This has been very true with my playtime with ‘Git’. […]
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Guest Speaker: Gwen Bell
Name: Gwen Bell Job: Technical writer and web developer Site: gwenbell.com Twitter: @gwenbell GitHub: Gwen Bell What are you speaking about today? The magic of Git. (With a little Node.js, Express, Jade, Stylus and Markdown thrown in for good measure.) What was your experience learning to code? I’m self-taught. Started with a book in 2004 because I wanted to make […]
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Guest Speaker: Jeff Casimir
Name: Jeff Casimir Job: Principal at Jumpstart Lab, Director of gSchool Site: [http://jumpstartlab.com](http://jumpstartlab.com) & http://gschool.it Twitter: @j3 What was your experience learning to code? I have a degree in computer engineering and, when I got done with school, I had really no more interest in programming. It wasn’t until three years later when I discovered Rails, […]
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Programmer Of The Day: Grace Hopper
Today’s programmer of the day is Grace Hopper, computer scientist and United States Navy officer. She created the first compiler for a programming language, as well as one of the first modern programming languages COBOL. She served in WWII, and even popularized the term “debugging” when her team was removing an actual moth from a […]
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Caching Fragments
The following is a guest post by Li Ouyang and originally appeared on her blog. Li is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about her here, or follow her on twitter here. In order to speed up performance, sometimes you’ll want to cache a page. Once the data changes, the cached page should expire, […]