Python for 2020

By rickColosimo / April 8, 2020 / Comments Off on Python for 2020

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

By rickColosimo / January 10, 2016 / Comments Off on Updating code tools

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.…

Non-strategic Procrastination

By rickColosimo / November 22, 2015 / Comments Off on Non-strategic Procrastination

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…

Omakase and two stacks for Rails

By rickColosimo / May 7, 2015 / Comments Off on Omakase and two stacks for Rails

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…