build. every. day.

I've decided that it's ok to have an aspirational blog title like 'build every day'.  

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/bar/3/

success!  I typed everything inside the <script></script> tags into the Javascript Console, and got the bar chart to render.  

The key here was using the actual column names from the data.tsv file.

Reading through http://feministy.tumblr.com/ and http://lillielillie.tumblr.com/ is fascinating.  Fascinating to hear these real people describe their experiences with something I'm learning too, and of places I've yet to go.

But I have a problem.  I feel compelled to complete the story.  To find an origin point, and really enjoy all of the character development along the way.  I sense something...

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the devbootcamp style of the programming tumblr blog has the 'coming of age story' and 'universe populating' components that I found compelling in another literary corpus: the expanded universe of Star Wars books.  With both, I feel anxiety about switching between narratives.   Sci-fi genre fiction and developer memoirs  both offer a choice between reading the most recent release or following the in-universe chronology. So far, I stuck to the latter. Following the story from the begining really enhances the vicarious joy I find along the way.

I'm stuck in my efforts to make a call to the LinkedIn API from my rails app.  This post shows how to get an access token from an Omniauth login cycle, and then use that access token to make API calls.

But, this example uses Devise for user authentication.  I should probably generate a new rails app that uses Devise too and follow this example directly.  That might give me the insight to get the access token and use it in the Connections-to-CSV app.

I should probably write a detailed question & post it on StackOverflow.  

of The Well Grounded Rubyist

I came across this term, and thought "I doubt that means 'computer-generated-imagery' ".

so I searched, and found the answer.  

So far, I am two chapters in.  Right now, I recognize many ruby concepts. I'd like to get to the place where I understand them well.

I like the this answer to the implicit question, 'why design a program?'

Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers.

Andrey Esaulov about 1 year ago

Great screencast, but I got stuck. Don't know how to set them ENV['TWITTER_KEY'] and ENV['TWITTER_SECRET'] variables. How do I set them? Is there a config file for that?

Would really be glad If anyone could help.

Reply

Kori Roys about 1 year ago

Quick and dirty:

Open .bash_profile in your favorite editor eg: mate ~/.bash_profile

Add the two ENV variables like so: export TWITTER_KEY=your_twitter_key export TWITTER_SECRET=your_twitter_secret

Save and close the file

So, I've been building,  but not posting as much as I would like.  Let's fix that!

I'm talking to a few startups about developer positions.  For someone like me with a fairly small (but growing!) portfolio, these conversations usually involve a demonstration of I can build.

Last weekend I worked on a Ruby on Rails project to display some crude oil forward contract trades with market pricing.  It felt really good to use rails to solve a problem relevant to the sort of functional work I've done before.    

Earlier this week, I completed a survey with some low level computer science questions about algorithm efficiency.  These were topics that I think are taught in formal CS courses, but that I hadn't encountered before.

Fortunately, StackOverflow answers and course notes from MIT can fill in that knowledge pretty quickly.

Could not connect to a primary node for replica set <Moped::Cluster nodes=[<Moped::Node resolved_address="127.0.0.1:27017">]>

  This MongoDB error message reminded me a high level, perhaps obvious fact this morning.  When I type 'rails s' to start up a local server, the page will only load if the database is also running.  

  So, from the terminal on a Mac this command will run MongoDB:

A Ruby ODM for MongoDB

I'm setting up a rails-mongood-omniauth app.  The installation notes for Mongoid helped resolve these error messages from my new rails app that still expected a relational db.  The culprit?  Some references to ActiveRecord in config/application.rb

error message:

This RailsCast on the Foundation Framework prompted me to brush up on my CSS.

This is a repository containing the Python scripts I used to retrieve the set of my shared 1st degree connections from LinkedIn.

I've created a new repository after realizing that my LinkedIn API keys were all over the history of the old repo.  :-/

So, here is the Git lesson of the day.

https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data