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Contributing to others' code...
For our Turing Mod 4 open source contribution, I wanted to really contribute to the Boulder Food Rescue robot code (Link to GitHub).
This is a work I have started a few months earlier. As soon as we started learning Rails, I wanted to be exposed to code written by others and try to get to the level where not only I feel comfortable modifying code written by others, but others are also comfortable merging in my contribution. Hasn’t happened yet, but work in progress. …
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The feeling of going live: Deploying a Rails application
Yes, it happened! Every once in a while we have to pause, look back and try to be proud of what we have acoomplished. On my bus ride this morning, I am doing just that. For others, I might be the crazy person, who opened his laptop, only to wonder around, look through the window, seemingly lost in the views of the mountains to the West. But in my head thoughts are running around: I have now two projects live on the internet. …
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Jekyll blog post: which files are changing?
I have been working with Jekyll to update content on my site for a little bit more than a month. By now the overall design is set, so the only update right now is pretty much limited to new blog posts. Might be a new page in the near future, but that would trigger a very similar change list. My current choice of FTP client does not offer a feature to identify the list of files which changed and I just simply don’t want to copy the entire site content to the server every time I create a blog post, I wanted to summarize the list of files, which are changing every time we create a new blog post with Jekyll. …
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ActiveRecord association extensions
Hello from after Mod2 project submission! We just finished our first project within Mod2. As referred to previously, it was the Bike-Share project where we were tasked to develop a web application that utilized a database populated from San Francisco’s bike share service data with stations, trips and weather details and provuded access to content of the base. However access to the databse content wasn’t only through standard routes
index,new,show,edit, our implementation also included a dashboard functionality. …
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How to add our own task to Rakefile
This post would not have been possible, have Robbie not shared the initial details to set us to the right direction. Thank you Robbie! Still just started on our Mod2 project Bike share and as we were tackling one challenge after another, we came across the requirement to import data into our database tables from external CSV files. The requirement called for updating our seed file and as it is we tried to implement it as a new
rake task. …
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When postgres install fails...
Started working on our first project in Mod2. Building interface to present various forms of data from SF Bay area bike share service that we download from Kaggle. But first things first: we needed to make sure our development environment is up and running. That is where the first problem came… …
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Life after Wordpress: Jekyll update
Greetings!
Finally the updated site is up and running! …
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Welcome to Turing
As I am only two days away from starting Mod2 at Turing School of Software and Design, I figured I add a post here with a few thoughts that I think might be useful for others who will start Mod1 in the future. …
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Thankful
With the turkey already partially eaten, the leftovers carefully packed to provide reliable food supplies for the next two weeks, I did a quick math for the first eleven months of this year. …
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And this how I roll...
After using Wordpress for a while, I tried to look for something simpler, something with much less overhead for my site. As I am in the middle of learning programming in Ruby, when I found Jekyll, I was very much into giving it a try. It also means that this post that you are reading right now is nothing more than a static HTML page, generated by a simple
jekyll buildcommand. So far I love it. …
Laszlo Balogh
wannabe Software Developer, Engineer, Runner, Photographer and some other things in between...