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Published in Program Practical

·Feb 22, 2017

Offering downloads without giving away the cow

So I had an interesting user story the other day. I was asked to implement a new system that would allow users to pay for and download some of our templates. This is all pretty well and easy thanks to Stripe and their Rails API. However we needed a way…

Ruby On Rails

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Offering downloads without giving away the cow
Offering downloads without giving away the cow
Ruby On Rails

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Published in Program Practical

·Feb 7, 2017

Program Practical’s new home!

Hey guys! Thanks for following me on Medium. I wanted to catch up with you guys and anyone who follows my blog on programpractical.com. With my current contract coming to an end. …

Medium

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Medium

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Published in Program Practical

·Aug 4, 2016

Fears of a New Job

I have found while I really enjoy programming full time. It has also brought on some anxiety I was not expecting. I had been up until July a full time IT administrator for a little over 5 years. …

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Fears of a New Job
Fears of a New Job

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Published in Program Practical

·Jun 6, 2016

Making your first push in git

Making your first push to a project can be a daunting task if you are new to git. Today we are going to review how I do my checks before pushing and what you can do to avoid making mistakes prevalent to newbies. For me my first step is always…

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Published in Program Practical

·May 30, 2016

Blocks, Procs, Lambdas, oh my!

Today I wanted to go over Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas in Ruby via a easy and short over view. …

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Published in Program Practical

·May 23, 2016

Skeleton Ruby Project: Mac Edition

A nice thing to have in your Ruby journey will be a skeleton project so you can quickly get up and running when you need to create a new project. We have done this project in an earlier post for computers running Windows. However, with the upcoming video series on…

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Skeleton Ruby Project: Mac Edition
Skeleton Ruby Project: Mac Edition

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Published in Program Practical

·May 16, 2016

When to start looking for a job

One question I hear a lot and have even asked myself a while back ago is “When do I know enough to start looking for a job”. …

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When to start looking for a job
When to start looking for a job

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Published in Program Practical

·May 9, 2016

Automated Code Review in Ruby

Today I wanted to review automating code review inside of ruby. Their meeting great open source projects to help make sure you are sticking to an idiomatic way of coding in ruby. The main one I will focus on today is Robocop and Robocop-git. Rubocop is an open source gym…

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Automated Code Review in Ruby
Automated Code Review in Ruby

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Published in Program Practical

·May 2, 2016

Live on YouTube

Program Practical is now on youtube. This month I am moving to a bi-media format with blog post going to start coming out weekly on Program Practical, as well weekly video post on YouTube. These post will cover a range of programming topics, from progress updates, coding tutorials, and…

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Published in Program Practical

·Apr 9, 2016

April showers bring in some changes

We are officially into april now I figured I would do my monthly wrap up and planning blog. March was an okayish month. If you follow along you would noticed I only ended up posting 3 times last month. While I am working on studying a lot I have started…

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Nic Ollis

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