When I first saw polymorphic associations in Ruby on Rails code, I was a little confused. However I have since realized that using this type of association make perfect sense in certain situations and Rails provides a elegant and easy way to model this. Normal Associations Most of our time, a model…

At my first internship, nobody told me about their version control system (which was significantly more painful than using Git is anyways). Inevitably, something went wrong one day and I lost a lot of work. I used my own rudimentary version control after that, making copies of my code in…

I recently wrote down some thoughts on interviewing and thought they might make a good blog post. This is sort of a follow up to my previous post, which was more the job search as a whole (this is more interview specific). I would definitely say that every interview (and…

After I finished up my teaching fellowship at Fullstack Academy in July, I spent about a month (which felt like a lot longer at the time) interviewing for my first full-time software engineer position. Eventually, I accepted a job that I am super excited about in mid-August (conveniently, I chose…

When Munzi Codes and I first made the Bechdelerator during a hackathon a while ago, we needed to get movie scripts so we could analyze them. Unfortunately, we soon discovered that there was only one real source for them and it was a bit of a pain to work with…