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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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Thank you, NYC

We are thrilled that The New York Times chatted with recent alum Jahmil Eady about her experience with the NYC Web Development Fellowship. The program is incredibly special to us, and it’s awesome to comb through tweets to see Jahmil’s story excite and inspire people—mostly because of how deeply it excites and inspires us. The […]
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Seeds

The following is a guest post by John Richardson and originally appeared on his blog. John is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Background: ADK 46-R The ADK 46ers are a set of 46 mountains in upstate NY higher than 4000 feet. If you climb all of these […]
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Hide Your Keys, Hide Your Tokens … Unless Deploying to Heroku

The following is a guest post by Greg Eng and originally appeared on his blog. Greg is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. In that case, you have to do a little more than just hide them. Typically, an API will require a key or authentication token before […]
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Database Column Type – Array

The following is a guest post by David Bella and originally appeared on his blog. David is currently in the Ruby-003 class at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Okay, So More Like “List” Relational databases are a great way to store, well, related data, in a base. Often times, we have to store […]
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Flatiron School Day Twenty Four – Include or Extend for a Module?

There are two ways to add a module to a class, include and extend.