WEEK 5 ORM (Object-relational Mapping)
What is ORM? Imagine a magical box that anyone or anything can speak into without regard to what language that person or thing is using...
HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO (Representational State Transfer)
Today, along with the task of researching GET requests and POST requests, we familiarized ourselves with the concept of REST, or...
WEEK 3 NEW VOCABULARY
Some really exciting stuff this week! Every week we are learning a ton, but this week it's like we've been jettisoned into a different...
COOKIES?!? (and sessions)
So you want to know about cookies, eh? Well before today most of us in the Ronin cohort probably didn't have a concrete idea of what they...
BATTLESHIPS (a trip down memory lane, with a twist)
Week two has been exhausting, exhilarating, frustrating and incredibly fun. I have been tested a lot this week in so many ways, yet the...
DEPENDENCY INVERSION PRINCIPLE
What is DIP? At first, this concept seems a bit difficult to grasp, but after some struggling and council from our coach, we were able to...
MAD RESPECT FOR rspec
We are nearing the end of week 1 and there's already a ton to report. Every day between 2 and 3 times per day we hold standups, which are...
MARSHMALLOWS AND SPAGHETTI
Day 1! The day started much like many of my other days in the past week or so. I woke up, got dressed, ate a quick snack and brushed my...
git add rōnin git commit -m "adding an exciting change" git push
It is officially the penultimate day of the precourse. Today has been eerily quiet as I almost robotically run errands, prepare food in...
PRECOURSE WEEK 4 part 1 {just rōnin around like a chicken with its head cut off}
Kata (型 or 形 literally: "form"?), a Japanese word, are the detailed choreographed patterns of movements practised either solo or in...
