Working with strings in Ruby has been interesting. As the re is far more to pay attention to and what you can do then when dealing with just JavaScript. One of my favorite things is the ability to put a variable right in the middle of a string without having to first break out of it and then add it in. JavaScript var my_var = “day”; console.log(“Isn’t to”+my_var+” just lovely?”);...

Yes, so I am what I would call a hobbiest. I have worked the past 5 years “Learning to program” without any real discipline. Due to this is skipped all of the “challenges” except for the bootstrap ones. However, I still feel their quoted time is horribly off. I have seen a lot of other post from people said they went from 0 to done in under 1000 hours. way under what they quote....

I have started working on a very small side project while I am learning Ruby. It’s just a simple time tracker that helps me with my current IT admin job. I have been trying some different time trackers like Toggle. While I find them awesome, in fact I’m using Toggle right now to track my time writing, they are just not suited for fast paced, high risk world of IT. Okay, maybe just fast paced sometimes, with no risk....

Great post, I have always been a fan of making apps for niche markets because of this. Sure my audience isn’t as broad but its a safer market.

With my Front End Developer Certificate behind me I start the next leg of my journey. I am mainly following the guidelines laid out in in Joshua kemp’s book “No Degree No Problem”. As of Monday I officially started working though the book Learning to Program by Chris Pine. Right off the bat I’m enjoying Ruby but it is very odd programming in a language without curly brackets. As the majority of my time programming as been on in C based languages I find this one a little odd....

Last night I was able to finish up the Simon project wrapping up the last of the requirements for Free Code Camp’s Front End Development Certificate. I am pretty excited to have completed this, while it’s just a certificate from a free online site, it means the completion of the first step in my journey. It only took me about 3 weeks in all to get through all the required algorithms and projects....