April 2009
7 posts
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Learning Ruby on Rails
For the last few months I’ve been putting in some good quality time to dedicate to learning Ruby on Rails. Although only able to do the basics, I feel I’ve come extremely far. The ability to quickly get a working web app up and going is such a great feeling. With only a little bit of programming experience, I have listened to the advice the great rails creators like David Hansson...
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My College Experience
Now into my last quarter at Cal Poly, I have to say that I’m having mixed feelings. After five years I’m thrilled to be getting out, but at the same time I don’t know whether I feel that I gained great skills and great knowledge. I can only say there were a handfull of courses that I actually benefited from in those five years and most of them being non-technical.
One of the...
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Being Able to Convert
PolyCareers has been live for a little while now and we have had some great contributions to the site, keeping in mind most of these internship reviews have been from our friends. Now the question is how do we convert the user sign-ups to actual reviews. I’m seeing user sign-ups daily but no reviews coming from those sign-ups. I think the problem is users are expecting a different page...
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Business of Selling Books
As a student at Cal Poly, there have been a couple of different ways that students have been able to sell their books to one another besides the usual of getting ripped off by selling back to the campus book store. One: ScrewTheBookStore.com and Two: Uloop.com.
I originally used screwthebookstore. Why? because there were enough students on it buying and selling. There was already a community...
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SQLite over MySQL
After following a tuturial on rails that used mysql for development I’m moving onto something much more easier and robust. Being able to create a database in an app simply by using the $rake db:create, then creating the controllers, views, and models using the $rake db:migrate to generate the mysql table structure is awesome. For more on this awesome easy setup check out the rails...