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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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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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Open Source: How to Git Started

The following is a guest post by Chris Lake and originally appeared on his blog. Chris is currently a student at The Flatiron School. You can follow him on Twitter here. Look, Contributing to Open Source is Super EZ There are loads of ways to contribute to your favorite open source projects. I list out a bunch of […]
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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.