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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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Convert a Ruby Hash into valid JSON

This post is about how to get a valid JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) snippet from a Ruby Hash.
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How I Learned to Code in 8 Months

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 follow her on twitter here. When many people look at my resume, they’re often confused by my drastic career switch. They’re also confused by how much I’ve learned in the past […]
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First Ruby Motion App

I recently dived into rubymotion head first and since there is a definite lack of quality tutorials out there I decided to outline my first ruby motion project.
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Ruby Patterns: Mass Assignment

The following is a guest post by Kevin Curtin and originally appeared on his blog. Kevin is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. A common pattern in programming is to instantiate a new object and assign a bunch of attributes during initialize. You probably recognize code […]
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How to Make Conditional Requests to Github’s API Using Octokit

The following is a guest post by Josh Rowley and originally appeared on his blog. Josh is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. For the last month, my team and I have been working on Gitbo, an app for finding open source software issues on Github […]