I’m going to post this every week to improve my Ruby chops. I subscribe to Ruby Methods Daily, where they send out a couple of Ruby methods to my inbox and I get to read over them. Reading with code is NEVER enough, though. So I’ve tried to use those methods for *something* each time I […]
A couple years ago, Jeff Atwood published a blog on Stack Exchange about their (then) philosophy for improving the quality of their community. The blog was titled “Optimizing for Pearls, Not Sand” and his conclusion was that answers are far more important than questions and therefore Stack Exchange would optimize so that answers were valued […]
Sitting in any tech classroom today for upgrade training as a student, I’m reminded of my experiences as a teacher. I remember the first time I had to teach a class and how all of my assumptions and expectations for my students were just …wrong. My initial approach was that I had some information to […]
This was the first and last group project at GA for our cohort. All in all, very great experience. Working in groups is never without it’s difficulties, but we had a group willing to work together and whose individuals were capable of carrying their own weight. Everyone contributed equally to our success, crushing any fears […]
Let’s walk through an app and talk about all of it’s parts. Since there’s a lot of details, I’m going to stick to bullet-point format and walk through each line of code, putting explanations in layman’s terms. Here we go! Express API Here’s our app:
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var express = require('express') var app = express() app.get('/', function (req, res) { res.send('Hello World!') }) var server = app.listen(3000, function () { var host = server.address().address var port = server.address().port console.log('Example app listening at http://%s:%s', host, port) }) |
var express = require('express') Remember: we’re using Nodejs, which is sufficient on […]
This series will be a quick and dirty, extremely simplistic overview of Express, a framework for Nodejs. The goals of the guide are to: How to setup Express Explain it’s basic parts Talk about app structure Part of the reason I’m writing this is to reinforce my own junior knowledge of the subject. Sometimes we forget how […]
Git is a file versioning system. It’s older than you or I so it’s not worth delving into it’s depths and resolving it’s mysterious ways. For now, it’s totally best to just know: it keeps multiple versions of your files. This guide doesn’t aim to give a perfect picture of Git, but just a clearer […]
In many ways, more than perhaps we’re able to realize, developer bootcamps and immersive programs like General Assembly (GA) are pioneering a frontier of education that will become a staple of the future economy. I’ve been witness to the erosion of university systems, not least because of the staggering cost. But also because Americans seem to […]
Honestly there were many lessons learned. I caught as many as I could remember here on Github: https://github.com/Protosac/pitchforks/wiki As an aspiring web developer, ever see a really cool website and think “OMG WHAT A GREAT IDEA!”? Somewhere in there you know it took a lot of work, but you also tend to believe that what makes […]
There’s actually no such command. But if you’ve got files in your repo that you’re tired of seeing in “untracked” because you’re not going to commit them:
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echo "MY_FILE' >> .gitignore git rm --cached MY_FILE |
You’ll also have to add the .gitignore file to it’s own list so that it doesn’t show up as well.