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Flatiron School + Fog Creek
Sweet! Today is the day we get to tell you about the new Fog Creek Fellowship. We’re so excited to announce our brand new partnership with Fog Creek Software—creators of Trello, FogBugz, and Kiln. As part of a two-month fellowship program, Fog Creek will host and mentor a select group of freshly-graduated Flatiron women. Paired […]
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Canyon of Heroes
Or a lesson in Financial District history, from Ruby student (and archivist!) Ashley Blewer, originally posted here. When walking to and from class every day at the bottom of Manhattan, I’ve noticed plates of text on the ground with a date and name of a famous person. I didn’t realize what these signs were about […]
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A Better Git Workflow: A Better World AKA My Induction Into The Git Police
Originally written and posted by Web Fellow Edward Leon Jasper right here. I can’t possibly think of anything more joyous than a great Git workflow. What I thought was once so easy has proven to be not easy at all. Working with Git in a group has been a scary monster: hours of work lost […]
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Using the Twitter Streaming API
Using the Twitter Streaming API liz-baillie: For my upcoming Flatiron Presents Meetup presentation (which is TONIGHT, eek!), my presentation partner Luke and I went through a number of ideas before settling on the topic of Using the Ruby-Processing Gem. After explaining how the gem works and what it does, we initially wanted to reenact a…
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Project Recap: Kickammender
Like so many of our alums, Michael and Joe both applied to Flatiron School at points in their lives when they weren’t sure what was next: Joe was an economics major turned Marine, and Michael was shirking questions about applying to PhD programs. Now full-time developers, they used their time at Flatiron to level up […]
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Um, so we have these chairs…
… and Ruby 005 student Ben Serviss has cleverly used them as an analogy for learning to program. Who knew! Here’s his post, reblogged from here. The first time I walked into The Flatiron School, I thought to myself: “What are these crazy orange things?” I had come to one of the weekly NYC on Rails meetups […]
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Flatiron Students Present
Yesterday evening, we kicked off this semester’s weekly student presentations. Every Flatiron student has to give at least one technical presentation while they’re here. There’s pretty much no getting out of it, but last night’s presenters had the reckless audacity to go first. It’s kind of a big deal considering they’ve only been coding for a […]