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Blog Archive - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. Becoming a Web Dev: Follow Up on Code Fellows. Code Fellows Gold: Final Thoughts. Posted in Code Fellows. Code Fellows: Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Review. Posted in Code Fellows. First Hackathon: What went well and what didn’t. Learn Sass and Compass quick. Develop faster in Rails with Zeus. Posted in Ruby on Rails. Becoming a Code Fellow. Beginning iOS Development: Books, Stack Overflow and GitHub. Becoming a Web Dev: Follow Up on Code Fellows. Code Fellows Gold: Final Thoughts.
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Becoming a Code Fellow - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. Becoming a Code Fellow. My blog has been sparse because I’ve spent the last few months contracting and applying for iOS dev jobs. Although I eventually found a promising job as an iOS developer, I decided to join Code Fellows. A developer bootcamp at Founder’s Co-op. Look out for more posts about my adventures learning Rails and mobile development, as well as my transition into a new career. Also, I should have fun side projects to talk about. Please reach out to me.
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Becoming a Web Dev: Follow Up on Code Fellows - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. Becoming a Web Dev: Follow Up on Code Fellows. Big news, I am officially a full time web developer! It’s been a long journey and it’s not over yet but I am really happy to have made it to this milestone. In the spirit of giving back to the community, who helped me get to where I am today, I am going to write two posts with some advice on transitioning from a non-technical career into software development. Since I get a emails about Code Fellows. Did you get a job? Both I turn...
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First Hackathon: What went well and what didn't - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. First Hackathon: What Went Well and What Didn't. A hackathon merging civic engagement and technology was today. It was part of a larger event across the nation called Hack for Change. Organized by Code for America. I had a great time, although I didn’t do any coding. On reflection, I would do some things differently, so here’s a quick summary of my experience and what I learned. Met other front-end and back-end developers and designers. Contributed to helping to save cats!
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Code Fellows: Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Review - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. Code Fellows: Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Review. It’s hard to believe I didn’t know any Rails just a month before. While I have a lot to learn, Rails is truly incredible for how much it can do so quickly. A lot of credit is owed to the creators of Ruby and Rails, but also to Code Fellows. Which has taught me everything I know about Rails in the past month. Along with other assignments. This works out well since the concepts and amount of work is pretty extensive so having a l...
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Code Fellows Gold: Final Thoughts - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. Code Fellows Gold: Final Thoughts. I’m almost 3 weeks out of Code Fellows. And I’m deep in my job search. This has given me some good perspective of how my bootcamp experience is helping me find a job and if it was worth it. Before I dive into that, I’ll summarize the Gold portion of Code Fellows. It followed the same model as Silver, as I described in my earlier post. Or source on GitHub. So do I think Code Fellows was worth it? For the job search, there does seem to be some...
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Learn Sass and Compass quick - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. Learn Sass and Compass Quick. We had to do a lightning talk on a topic of our choice. Since Rails utilizes Sass and my CSS skills have always been more of a learn on demand thing rather than a deep dive, I decided to check Sass out. While doing so, Compass came up often, so I added a little bit of it to my presentation. Compass and Sass examples. Try it out by installing compass, cloning the repo and then opening the application.css.scss file. Sass has an interpreter that spi...
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Develop faster in Rails with Zeus - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. Develop Faster in Rails With Zeus. Waiting is my least favorite part of developing. In Rails, every time you run a test or a rake command, even if it’s just a few seconds, it’s seconds that stop your flow. Is a gem that is out to solve that problem. It preloads the Rails app so that when you run commands it doesn’t have to boot up Rails and so shaves time off of your commands. Like this:. Here are the supported zeus commands. It makes running all of these faster:. So I ran in...
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Uncopyright - Billy Shih
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Writing in English and Code. All content on this blog created by me, Billy Shih, is released to the public domain. No permission is needed to copy, distribute, or modify the content of this site. Attribution is appreciated but not required. Inspired by Leo Bauta. Becoming a Web Dev: Follow Up on Code Fellows. Code Fellows Gold: Final Thoughts. Code Fellows: Ruby on Rails Bootcamp Review. First Hackathon: What went well and what didn't. Learn Sass and Compass quick. Billy Shih - Powered by Octopress.
