You just finished developer bootcamp, now what?

 Posted on July 11, 2019  (Last modified on August 19, 2019) Federico Iachetti

The world of programming can be daunting. But you don't have to go through it alone. Congratulations! You just made it through coding bootcamp. You're on your way to realizing your dreams as a software developer. But now that you're working on your portfolio, you feel lost in a sea of code. Seemingly simple features feel just out of reach. You understand the big picture of the framework you're using, but you have trouble connecting the dots. [Read More]

Writing a presenter's course - Part 03

 Posted on July 8, 2019  (Last modified on July 10, 2019) Federico Iachetti

Today I started an experiment I've been thinking for a long time. I'll write a course on stream in order to share the knowledge. On this stream I work in a course about creating a framework agnostic presenter library in Ruby. Here's a snapshot of the course syllabus so far: Basic Presenter [4/4] free What is a presenter? Target and Context Forwarding to the target object Demistifying the view Instantiating Presenters [2/5] paid Mystique. [Read More]

Why do I stream?

 Posted on July 8, 2019 Federico Iachetti

Recently I started a Twitch channel where I've streaming different things, like learning or re-learning technologies. My intention for the channel is to provide some value by recording myself learning and/or programming. I don't have many views and followers so far. This is probably due to a couple of reasons: I haven't really cultivated an audience I'm really new to streaming I don't promote the channel enough I don't have a fixed schedule And, probably the biggest, I'm not a great entertainer. [Read More]

Writing a presenter's course - Part 02

 Posted on July 7, 2019  (Last modified on July 10, 2019) Federico Iachetti

This was one of the most frustrating streams I made so far. My UPS went crazy in the middle of it, so I ended up having to split the video in two. And all that was after streaming for about an hour with the stream not really working. Part 1: Part 2: I started an experiment I've been thinking for a long time. I'll write a course on stream in order to share the knowledge. [Read More]

Writing a presenter's course - Part 01

 Posted on July 7, 2019  (Last modified on July 10, 2019) Federico Iachetti

Today I started an experiment I've been thinking for a long time. I'll write a course on stream in order to share the knowledge. On this stream I work in a course about creating a framework agnostic presenter library in Ruby. Here's a snapshot of the course syllabus so far: Basic Presenter [4/4] free What is a presenter? Target and Context Forwarding to the target object Demistifying the view Instantiating Presenters [2/5] paid Mystique. [Read More]

Presenter's course Syllabus

 Posted on July 7, 2019  (Last modified on July 10, 2019) Federico Iachetti

Here's a snapshot of the course syllabus so far: Basic Presenter [4/4] free What is a presenter? Target and Context Forwarding to the target object Demistifying the view Instantiating Presenters [2/5] paid Mystique.present (with) Inferring the presenter class TODO Mystique.present_collection Defining the base presenter class (Mystique::Presenter) This is already done in "Forwarding to the target object". Adding context This is already done in "Forwarding to the target object" [Read More]

Presenting: Presenters

 Posted on July 7, 2019 Federico Iachetti

What is a presenter? When we're writing a web application, we often find ourselves struggling with trying to put display logic in the right place. We have some logic that can either go on the model (or the domain object), but it can also go on the view. For example, we might have a user with a first and a last name. We want to show the full name in a particular way, so we can write this logic on the domain object, but this means that it'll spread across the entire app. [Read More]

Learning ROM, a Ruby Persistence Library - Part 02

 Posted on June 24, 2019  (Last modified on July 1, 2019) Federico Iachetti

This is the second stream on a series where I sit down to learn the Ruby Object Mapper library. On this stream I moved to a file based SQLite database instead of a memory based one. Things I learned on the stream: Configuring a file based SQLite database. How to write the SQLite database URI (I always forget how to do this). How to write migrations. How to create Rake tasks for creating migrations and migrating the database. [Read More]

Learning ROM, a Ruby Persistence Library - Part 01

 Posted on June 22, 2019  (Last modified on July 1, 2019) Federico Iachetti

This is the first stream on a series where I sit down to learn the Ruby Object Mapper library. I created the basic structure of an application, but just the persistence layer. I've started with Sqlite on memory just to get the basic setup up and running. On the next streams on this series I'll try to configure Postgres with migrations and seeds. Things I learned on the stream: I started by learning some of the basic concepts Repository It's the entry point to ROM persistence layer. [Read More]

Re-Learning CSS - Rebuilding Habitica Part 02

 Posted on June 18, 2019  (Last modified on July 1, 2019) Federico Iachetti

Continuing with the series about rebuilding Habitica, I finished building the top bar and resolving some of the issues on the layout.

In this series, I try to re-create the Habitica design with only HTML and CSS (well, SCSS). I'm not doing any actual functionality, just the look and feel.