I Went To MountainWest RubyConf 2011!

by dontangg on March 22, 2011

I recently went to MountainWest RubyConf 2011 (Mar 17-18).  It was in Salt Lake City at the public library.  It was pretty fun.  I met a guy that recognized me from Taylorsville elementary school!  People were mostly from the western (…)

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I Contributed to An Open Source Project!

by dontangg on November 15, 2010

In my last post, I talked about my envelopes budgeting project a little bit. Well, obviously, I need to display numbers as a currency. I found a convenient function in Rails where I could supply a number and it would (…)

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Envelopes Budgeting Is Out of Sight

by dontangg on November 10, 2010

For those of you who think “out of sight” means you can’t see it, think again. “Out of sight” means keen, unreal, hunky dory, exquisite, first-class, or awesome. Managing your money is obviously a very important thing to do. Everyone (…)

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Tutorial: Debugging in Ruby

by dontangg on November 5, 2010

Debugging is extremely useful to find problems in code. I’m going to give a really brief tutorial on how to use Ruby’s built-in debugger for the most common debugging reasons. When I debug, these constitute 95% of what I ever (…)

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Programming Is Art

by dontangg on November 2, 2010

“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.” _why the lucky stiff I like this quote. One of the reasons the I like programming on (…)

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