What is PHP? PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. – php.net PHP is mainly focused on server-side scripting, so you can do anything any other CGI program can do, such as collect form […]
Impostor Syndrome? How to Overcome It
A couple of weeks ago after finishing my jobs board app I started to feel that maybe I didn’t know as much as I thought I knew, started wondering how did I get here? Am I really a coder? I got all sort of questions and doubts in my mind. It turns out I’m not […]
5 Steps to Building the Basics of a Job Board Rails App with Authentication and Authorization
Building a rails web application can be very simple or very involved, it all depends on what your goal is, however, there are certain steps that can help you do it very efficiently. 1. Have an idea of what you really want to build I like to start writing code after a have a basic […]
Why Did I Decide To Learn Software Development
I’m a financial engineer, speak two languages, live far away from where I grew up in, and worked the majority of my productive life in the restaurant industry in New York City, so I’m used to change, not afraid of challenges and able to adapt to any circumstances, but one, boredom. After 6 years of […]
Building a Ruby CLI Gem From Scratch
Let me start by saying that one thing I understand now is, as programmers, we don’t need to recreate the wheel, there are a lot of tools we can use to make our life easier in terms of building our projects. For this particular project Bundler will create our gemspec file by simply typing: gem bundler <gem name> […]