In preparation for Dev Bootcamp in August, I’ve drawn up a hefty syllabus for myself to cover the next few months. I based this on what I could find out about the actual DBC syllabus from their website and the Continue reading
The naïve way to concatenate a string in Ruby is to just use the addition (+) operator. This does makes sense as the ability to perform arithmatic operations on strings in Ruby is one of the things that helped me Continue reading
I had my Dev Bootcamp interview at 2130 on 13th March 2014 and at 0900 on 14th March 2014 I received an email confirming that I had been accepted. This was obviously a great way to start the day and Continue reading
Update: I got accepted and started Dev Bootcamp in August 2014! Read my daily blog posts to find out what I’ve been working on and what an average day looks like at Dev Bootcamp. Very soon after submitting my Dev Continue reading
After a lot of time and reflection, I decided a while back that self-teaching and personal projects were great and helping a lot, but if I really wanted to become a great, well-rounded programmer I’d have to properly immerse myself Continue reading
In the midst of the bitcoin boom and bust, I came across an interesting site: cex.io, which lets you trade bitcoin mining contracts. Essentially you pay for computing power (in GH/s) with bitcoins, and you receive bitcoins back as a Continue reading