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   Learning Ruby on Rails: Month 1(waterstreetgm.org)

   2 points by saltcod 15y ago|2 comments
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   by saltcod 15y ago

   Your points are valid, if a little protracted. The issue for the next 20-50 years isn't that everyone needs to become a programmer, its that currently no one is becoming a programmer. Until we start to graduate people from high school with
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   by saltcod 15y ago

   The other thing I want to add is how much 'else' I learned while running through Michael Hartl's tutorial. Despite many years making websites, I really had no clue about basic http methods — get, put, post, etc — and in fact, I didn't even
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   by saltcod 15y ago

   The Ubuntu and Mac setups should be pretty similar. It will be easier for you to get help developing through Ubuntu than XP. Stackoverflow/IRC are your friends when you run into trouble.
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   by saltcod 15y ago

   > Come back and you find out all you had to do was restart the 'Rails Server' Ha! Hilarious. That's happened so many times.
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   by saltcod 15y ago

   You're 100% right about having something specific to work on. Going through tutorials doen't commit you to anything, and hence never compels you to keep going when things get tough. The place where I stopped with Michael Hartl's tutorial wa
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   by saltcod 15y ago

   Fantastic post. Thanks so much for it. I decided to really dig into Ruby on Rails after Christmas this year, after thinking/talking about it for years. I was thrilled to hear that you really had no programming background—I think a lot of us
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   An antidote to Daring Fireball's readability issue (saltcod.github.com)

   2 points by saltcod 15y ago|0 comments
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   by saltcod 15y ago

   I was extremely surprised when you said that you felt that there was more resources out there for Python than for Ruby. Not saying you're wrong, I was just very surprised by it. It feels like there are amazing Ruby resources everywhere you
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    I've found WordPress to be perfect for small-medium sized things. Blog posts/news, static pages, image galleries, easy Youtube, dead simple social addons, etc, etc. I'd argue that WordPress is extremely solid and mature for these uses.
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    Handing a Drupal website over to a client was always hard. No wysiwyg, no automatic updating, built-in dependency hell (that the client can see in /modules), _constant_ warnings about module updates and security updates and core updates and
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    After about 10 minutes with Plone, a few months with Joomla, about 2 years with Drupal, and finally 3 years with WordPress, I think WordPress is still a brilliant solution for lots of problems. The closest competitor, Drupal, is an absolute
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    Thanks. Certainly I imagine it would be front-end development. I just had a moment (or a million moments) this past year where I realized that I'm doing all these freelance, on-off projects for people, I'm definitely not actually learning t
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    What the hell should I try and learn?

    1 points by saltcod 15y ago|4 comments
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    I charge $40 to do design and WordPress development. As another example, an ad firm I interviewed with a few months ago were charging $1,000 per day to develop a website, brand, 'strategy' etc. The $1,000 got you a developer (really just a
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    Did you know HTML/CSS/Javascript before, or was all that new too?
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    I wonder why this is on HN today? Maybe others, like me, wish that Apple produced an ergonomic keyboard? While I love the keystroke feel of both wireless Apple keyboards, I really wish they had a split ergonomic version. After a day of codi
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    ps: The new job I took pays just slightly more than half of what the old one did. I'm still extremely happy about my decision. I'm not depressed anymore, I love my job now, my home-life is better, etc etc etc. Seriously, don't fret about t
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    by saltcod 15y ago

    Please, please, please go read the book What Colour is your Parachute: http://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2012/dp/1607... I know it looks like a self-help book—at least that's what I thought—but it made a huge difference in