Sunday 26 January 2014

WDI Progress Update - Ruby, Sinatra, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, PostGreSQL, Rails MVC

Challenges:

  1. Validations, SMTP
  2. Homework bugs!!! 
  3. Data Validation with ActiveRecord
Progress @ General Assembly (GA)
  • Sublime Text 2 (Shift-CMD-R align multiple text lines, CMD+? to comment multiple lines)
  • Ruby (Object Relationship Mapping ORM)
  • Rails (Model View Controller MVC architecture, Deployment to Production using Heroku with GemFile, Scaffolding with database rake migration entire CRUD apps)
  • Ruby Gems - (ActiveRecord, ActiveRecord Associations, HATM, Callbacks, PostGreSQL, Validations, Bundler for deployment)
  • SQL (PostGres app, commands, tables, joins, foreign keys, CRUD)
  • Tapestry Presentation on Front-End Development by Phil Reither
Progress @ Intro to Startup Entrepeneurship
  • Unit 1 finished on 27th Jan !! Next steps: 
    • Unit 1 - Lesson 7 Independent study activities, participate in online forum, create app based on learnings
    • Unit 2 - UX, can't wait to start!!
Events:
  • Attended meetup Startup Sydney on 23rd Jan @GA
Curiosity:
  • Tank Stream Labs (startup community)
  • Behavioural retargeting
  • Gamification
  • RescueTime
  • StrongLoop
  • Grails
  • Universal design principles (accessibility): Haptics, Tactus, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  • The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
  • Trends API
  • CSS animations
  • WebGL
  • WebM format
  • Paralax
  • Caniuse.com (compatibility checker)
  • Flinto.com (IOS Prototypes, Wireframing)
  • Railcasts
Off Topic:
  • Magna Carta

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