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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.
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HCI – the Possibilities Are Endless

The following is a guest post by Carlos Lazo and originally appeared on his blog. Carlos is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. One of the things that has most fascinated me about the world of technology is our ability (and even sometimes, inability) to interact with computers. You hear […]