I had been wondering if this site was going to be just a dead end in my blogging past. But here I am, with a new post. For a few reasons, it turns out that it will be beneficial to my work for me to learn some python. Thus, I’ve resurrected some python resources that…
Updating code tools I had a heckuva time today trying to migrate a rails app in progress to postgresql so I could deploy it to Heroku. The migration didn’t work, which led to confirming/installing postgresql. That was a couple times. It still wasn’t working – no rails splash page, even, let alone anything I’d coded.…
My friend, a college professor, sent me a case study exercise that a student asked him about. He sent it about a month ago, and I’m usually pretty quick on responding. But this one drifted down in the inbox because of a closing, more work, and my expectation that I would need or want to…
This concept of Rails having “two default stacks” is a tough one for me. I chose Rails over other possible “first language” choices because I respect the conscious decision of convention over configuration, and I recognize that good fences make good neighbors, particularly in the early stages of learning something with so many potentially moving…