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RailsBerry rejected my talk and I am happy about it | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
http://jessewolgamott.com/blog/2013/03/04/railsberry-rejected-my-talk-and-i-am-happy-about-it
RailsBerry Rejected My Talk and I Am Happy About It. I received the greatest email this weekend: RailsBerry had rejected my talk for their 2013 conference. Normally: another oh well, they must have found really great talks to reject mine and a sigh. Why did I like this rejection email? RailsBerry gave me personalized, actionable feedback on making my future submissions better. First, the details about my talk. I’ve been teaching Ruby off Rails. Teaching Ruby without Rails. I’m a white male from the US.
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Using pg_dumpall to move all postgres databases to a new laptop | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
http://jessewolgamott.com/blog/2014/10/16/using-pg-dumpall-to-move-all-postgres-databases-to-a-new-laptop
Using Pg dumpall to Move All Postgres Databases to a New Laptop. I recently upgraded laptops because it’s been 2 years and my business lease on it was up. Which: cool to have the new MacBook Air with the day-long-battery TM, but moving computers is a pain. Except: I have dot files. And that makes it easier. After copying my home directory over, re-dotfiling, things seemed good. Except: my postgres databases. How to get them all from Air A to Air B without copying every.single.one. Pg dumpall db.out.
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ember-cli: Getting Started with the Awesome | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
http://jessewolgamott.com/blog/2014/10/20/ember-cli-getting-started-with-the-awesome
Ember-cli: Getting Started With the Awesome. Is a command line application that creates a separate project for your ember project. It is crafted by the Ember core team and extended by the Ember community. So: your backend API will be in 1 app/repo, and ember in a seperate one. This is a good thing for all sorts of reasons, but mostly: Your Front End App has grown up. So excited by how Ember CLI is shaping up. This is the story Ive been wanting to tell about developing web apps for the last 3 years. Movin...
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Getting Websockets, CarrierWave, and Fog to play nicely together | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
http://jessewolgamott.com/blog/2015/03/05/getting-websockets-carrierwave-and-fog-to-play-nicely-together
Getting Websockets, CarrierWave, and Fog to Play Nicely Together. Getting Websockets, CarrierWave, and Fog to play nicely together. Alternate title: Dancing with Dragons, or, how I got screwed by ActiveRecord Callbacks yet again. I’ve been working on the following scenario:. 2 different people have an ember app open. One of them adds a new record to the Rails app. I want other-person’s ember to refresh with that new record instantaniously-ish. Fairly simple, but here’s what’s going on:. Callbacks are run...
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Excitement! I'm teaching Rails at The Iron Yard Houston | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
http://jessewolgamott.com/blog/2014/05/05/excitement-im-teaching-rails-at-the-iron-yard-houston
I'm Teaching Rails at the Iron Yard Houston. Teaching Ruby has been awesome. It’s been so awesome that I want more. I want to meet the students face to face, and help change their lives for the better. To make that happen, I’m going to teach Rails at Houston’s first open-source stack code school. The Iron Yard Houston. Classes start June 2nd. I’m teaching a Ruby heavy Rails Engineering course. Matt Keas. Is leading the front end course (JavaScripts). Give people the opportunity to learn how to have a muc...
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Press | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
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And I’ll be happy to help. 2016 - 5 things we learned from a veteran instructor at The Iron Yard. Here’s what else we learned from talking to Jesse: 1. Teaching is both emotional and rewarding 2. For coding beginners, ignorance isn’t bliss 3. So new to code you haven’t tried it? Don’t join a bootcampyet. 4. Wrapping it up is easier said than done 5. Teaching what students NEED to know is crucial. 2014 - Q&A with IronYard Teacher and RailsConf Speaker Jesse Wolgamott. Follow me on Twitter.
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Open Source Projects and Whatnot | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
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Open Source Projects and Whatnot. We likely all feel we wish we published more open source software. Here’s what I’ve published it’s not much, but it’s shipped and supported. Video course, with 21 videos, approx 20 hours of content. Because JSFiddle is awesome. Persist, Version, and Fork Ruby Snippets. Secures for remote executable code. Parallel map using Celluloid Futures. Source. Make posting links to people’s trello boards easy. Source. Jwo does dotfiles. Source. Follow me on Twitter.
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Start Here | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
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The One With a JSON API Login Using Devise. The One Where I Have to Explain Why I Want Diversity in Our Field. Why I Built Ruby Off Rails. The One Where You Run Rake Commands With Capistrano. The Iron Yard (Ruby Instructor). EmberJS - Houston (Meetup). Houston Ruby Brigrade (Meetup). Ruby Off Rails (Ruby Online Course Free). Jesse Wolgamott crafts back-end curriculum at The Iron Yard. He lives in Sugar Land outside of Houston, and likes that you can end sentences with emoji :). Follow me on Twitter.
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Writing Like Actually Getting Words Onto Paper | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
http://jessewolgamott.com/blog/2015/04/06/writing-like-actually-getting-words-onto-paper
Writing Like Actually Getting Words Onto Paper. Writing is a series of small burst of rushing water, a thousand words pouring out of me in a very short period of time. Writing is day dreaming, when no words come at all. The rushing water has stopped, the creek dry and crackling. Writing is using your own voice and avoiding sounding important or intellectual. Writing is real. Both will create a page for you so you can focus on the writing. Fiddling with tools instead of writing is wankery distraction.
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Rails and the next 5 years | Jesse Wolgamott | JWo. TexMex Software Consulting
http://jessewolgamott.com/blog/2014/12/05/rails-and-the-next-5-years
Rails and the Next 5 Years. After a few flirtatious encounters with Ruby, I left .NET in 2009. I was looking for something better, something where I didn’t use an IDE, something where I didn’t feel like I was fighting the entire culture, and a place I could be happy being a devloper again. I found Rails. I found open source. I found Ruby. And I found myself. Rails isn’t going away. I will still use it for prototyping and for applications where expressiveness is key (billing code and administration of...
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