Ruby

Day 3 at MakerSquare. A pun-y morning with wireframing and CSS layout. Looking back at the web design I’ve done in the past [which involved a vicious amount of Googling about <div> and floats and inline-blocks], I’m excited about developing the skillz to quickly iterate on designs I’ve sketched out. No more sweating over how the introduction of a new paragraph could break the layout. They say that by suffering with manual CSS layout, we will develop a greater appreciation for frameworks. Without having touched a single one of them, I can confirm that yes, frameworks are awesome. ...

Day Two at MakerSquare. First full day of class. Front end in the morning: Mostly stretching the HTML/CSS muscles and practicing pair programming. Realized that float:left and float:right size the element down to the width of the child element - light bulb! Starting to scratch the surface of best practices, from using “-u” in the initial git push to writing in the present tense for git messages. And, enjoyably, making the Sublime Text experience even more awesome by tweaking settings and learning shortcuts. ...

I love inject. To be more specific, I love Enumerable#inject. I find it easy to read and easy to use. It’s powerful and it lets me be more concise. Enumerable#inject is a good thing. Jay Fields’ Thoughts Facts. I’ve seen this thing in action before, but really started to scrape the surface today. It seems to be a good example of Ruby is about, namely making coding more friendly for people & allowing multiple ways of doing things. 

The Ruby ‘case’ expression is a powerful beast: a multiway ‘if’ on steroids. Programming Ruby No joke, I almost leapt off the couch when I first saw these in action.