gSchool Stories

Advice to Future and Present gSchoolers

I’m a gSchool graduate ten days out of the full stack development program. It was an amazing six months that I will never forget. I’m very excited to continue interviewing for developer, QA, and DevOps positions and find my first job in tech with the skills I gained through gSchool…

Collection Select with Ember.js & Rails API

Searching for Ember help has been tough, so I feel the need to share my struggles and add to the resources available. Between the docs, a blog, and some Stack Overflows, I finally got it working.

Search Bar Madness: a How-To for Ember.js

In an effort to understand adding a search bar to my Ember…

Introducing… Colorado Wine Tracker!

I’ve been working on a Rails app for the past few months as my…

Setting up AWS for Carrierwave

Just a handful of steps to get AWS setup for your Carrierwave gem

Coding at the Speed of Smooth

I used to play online poker professionally (2009–2011) and it involved making multiple decisions in a limited amount of time. I was fast. My speed was a great strength in certain situations and a great weakness in others. By playing more hands faster I was making more…

Pull Request in One Minute

First off you should be doing all your work in a new branch. Once you’re code is ready for production run your…

Embracing the Sisterhood of Code

I was a bit hesitant to attend female-only meet ups. All I could imagine is something crazy from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. But now I get it.

When I left my last job, I had multiple people tell me I should check out groups like Women Who Code or Girl…

This is how you do basic CRUD:

Terminal `rails new widgets —database=postgresql