Here at the Flatiron School we are encouraged to actively blog. We are also required to present one blog post every two weeks to the group. So much interesting stuff has been coming from my classmates, I decided to do a weekly round-up of some of my favorite posts. Here are handful of interesting posts from the past week:
Charlote Chang blew us away with a fun little blog ‘presentation’ mixing variable scope and health care politics. Her post, Variable Scope: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ruling Class, is entertaining and informative not mention beautifully designed.
Trevor McKendrick’s last post 10 Ruby Tricks is nice list of new Ruby bits that I hope to incorporate into my coding immediately. How logical to set default attribute accessors with an attr_accessor_with_default method! And using the ‘-c’ flat to check the syntax of ruby code without running it—brilliant.
Amanda Himelstoss’s post Using the Mail Gem and Launchd to Make a Newsletter was a great introduction to a handy little gem, the Mail Gem, and also a little primer on an aspect of my computer that I haven’t explored much, Launchd. When time allows, I hope to make a little app like this collect relevant posts on a particular topic I am interested in.
Emily Xie’s latest post on Dynamic Dispath was a nice run down of one of the coolest sounding metaprogramming conepts we have covered, Dynamic Dispatch! It feels like you need to shout it. Emily gives some nice examples of how Dynamic Dispatch can be used to write cleaner code.
Last, but not least a few of my classmates made a fun Name Game app and Theo’s post runs down how they did it and few things they learned. Four weeks into the program, it is a bit embarrassing to not know someone’s name, so this was a great tool to fill in those last few gaps. It was also great to learn about Github Project Pages. I need to start thinking of some fun apps to publish.
