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Monthly Archives: June 2009

How to learn more about Ruby on Rails

“Learning Rails has been an awesome way to learn about programming; using the ‘Rails’ framework and opinions helped me to learn best practices and object oriented programming concepts.”

How I did it: I bought Simply Rails 2 and coded the example digg like site, ‘shovel’. Then got very excited about rails and bought the Agile Web Development with Rails book; and built the example store application. Since I’m a huge fan of twitter I built my own short URL site for tracking clicks on the links I post all around the web – rant.cc . Starting to feel confident, I build out a new site in the agile style called prayerlife.net the concepts are similar twitter and 43things. This time I was working without a tutorial but referencing the Agile book and searching the web and google group Ruby on Rails: Talk for help along the way. I also tune in to podcasts: Railscast, Rubyology, and Learning Rails. In addition, I participate in a local usergroup, OCRuby.com, where I can ask questions and learn from others in realtime. At a meeting I learned from a presentation on using the console while demonstating ‘Active Record’; this helped me to catch the key concepts of data models.

Lessons & tips: The best way to learn is to… just build it. Get in touch with others who are learning as well. Also, connect with those who have programming experience. The podcasts are are great way to get past concepts that seem difficult.

Resources: Podcast: Railscast, Rubyology, and Learning Rails

Books: Simply Rails 2, Agile Web Development with Rails
Usergroup: OCRuby.com
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checking out some tips from ht…

checking out some tips from http://code.google.com/speed/

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What’s up with all the ‘green’…

What’s up with all the ‘green’ tinted avatars?

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My cousin @lucrative1 set up a…

My cousin @lucrative1 set up an classified site using WordPress; first time I’ve seen WP used this way http://buysellammo.com nice job dude!

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nice article on Opera 10 and s…

nice article on Opera 10 and sharing files without Flickr, YouTube, drop.io… http://rant.cc/6f4

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@PixlSequence just getting rea…

@PixlSequence just getting ready for summer, this week my daughter graduated High School, between work and home I’ve been constantly busy

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The line at Disneyland for Pir…

The line at Disneyland for Pirates of the Caribean was only 7 minutes, I’m stoked; what else is a chaperone to do on Grad Night?

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@DCTH whats with the ‘pancakes…

@DCTH whats with the ‘pancakes’ label on everyone’s avatars ? #DCTH

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Wow, (finally) an automatic up…

Wow, (finally) an automatic update from MFST Windows for Internet Explorer 8, I hope and pray that all of the IE6 users upgrade immediately

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