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. …

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. …

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…

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

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…

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”. …

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…

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…

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…