I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the…
Lately, I’ve felt like I’ve been focusing less on Ruby and more on Rails, Javascript, and other areas of my programming toolbox. I’m trying to change that by spending half an hour a couple times a week working through Ruby puzzles. There are tons of great sites out there to stay fresh on Ruby and more importantly learn more and get better. Here are some of my favorites so far:
“Why should a 20 year old art student learn to code?”
Answer by Robert Fletcher:
Because code is art.
And because coding is an art.Imagine this…
Imagine you’re a composer. You’re composing a symphony. But not only are you composing it, you’re performing it. And not only are you composing and performing it, you’re collaborating with tens, or hundreds, or even thousands of other composers and performers around the world, many of whose faces you’ve never even seen. And the composition and the performance are all the more beautiful for it, eschewing the notion of having “too many cooks in the kitchen”.
Imagine you’re a sculptor. You’ve got your tool kit. Your hammer, your chisels, your putty knife. But your tools aren’t perfect… “
India Issues First Compulsory Licence
Groundbreaking Move Sets Precedent for Overcoming Drug Price Barriers
12 March 2012, New Delhi/Geneva – In a landmark case, the Indian Patent Office has issued the first-ever compulsory licence in India to a generic drug manufacturer. This effectively ends German pharmaceutical company Bayer’s monopoly in India on the drug sorafenib tosylate used to treat kidney and liver cancer. The Patent Office acted on the basis that not only had Bayer failed to price the drug at a level that made it accessible and affordable, it also was unable to ensure that the medicine was available in sufficient and sustainable quantities within India.
New Delhi/Geneva, 5 September 2012 Bayer compulsory licence hearing has concluded and the judgment order will be issued in the coming weeks.
Photo: India 2008 © Jean-Marc Giboux/Getty Images
Medical Needs Increasing Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
On July 20 and July 21, there was a new surge as thousands of Syrians entered Lebanon. MSF teams were dispatched to the areas along the border and to the Bekaa valley, where many refugees are seeking sanctuary.
As the crisis in Syria continues to intensify, the humanitarian needs—both in Syria and in surrounding countries—are increasing significantly. Many people have been killed and wounded and tens of thousands have fled their homes, leaving behind everything they own. Medical and humanitarian assistance within Syria is extremely limited, and aid from international organizations, including MSF, has been severely restricted. In neighboring countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, MSF has therefore augmented its work with the growing numbers of Syrian refugees flowing across the borders.
Photo:An MSF nurse gives a vaccine to a young Syrian boy in northern Lebanon.
Lebanon 2012 © Nagham Awada/MSF
We are hosting Startup Weekend at DBC this Sept. It’s going to crazy awesome. This was an idea I had envisioned right after getting accepted to the program. I had emailed Shereef to see what he thought about the idea. Little did I know he had actually WON a Startup Weekend last year and knew the main coordinator for the Bay Area region.
We got a hazy plan together and Shereef agreed to host Startup Weekend at the DBC offices if I managed it as him nor the staff didn’t have the bandwidth.
I said ‘yes’ and figured it would be no problem. Of course I didn’t calculate the I’d have zero time once school got under way. So planning has been much slower than I’d normally have liked, but we are in a good spot and about to really ramp up.
Already about 16 boots from Summer have signed up. Sponsors are joining and a ton more planning is about to happen once I have some time after class officially ends next week.
I can’t wait to see what everyone builds in 54 hrs.
I can’t wait either. Boots… Kick ass
A quick tutorial on how to make a basic profile page with rails and deploy with heroku.
Impressive, especially for a first attempt at a video tutorial.
I want to start off this post with content from a previous post of mine as it seems relative to today. I’m plagiarizing myself, so that’s ok.
Some things I’ve learned about group dynamics when working on a project:
- The group must have a personal desire to accomplish the task at hand.
- The…
(Source: dnmcdonald)
In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that I wasn’t quite sure what type of learner I was. That wasn’t entirely true. I have a few ideas about what helps me learn. Repeating a process does wonders for committing something to memory for this guy. Similarly, learning things from the top, down,…
Patrick’s blog is definitely on my favourite.
Ghislain Ramage
Cyr Wheel
I get vertigo worrying he’ll come off the roof
Up until now in my career, I’ve been building and designing websites with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, along with ample assistance on the backend from Content Management Systems like ExpressionEngine CMS & WordPress. Over the last couple of years I’ve also learned a lot about deploying and hosting websites on a standard LAMP stack—on shared hosts, VPS’s, and PaaS solutions like the awesome WPEngine.com.
Recently I’ve gotten the urge to up my web development game by learning Ruby & the Ruby on Rails framework (ROR). This will enable me to build more sophisticated web applications, in addition to the content-heavy web sites that I’ve focused on thus far in my work.
Read The Rest: Dev Bootcamp, T-Minus 92 Days: Why I’m Learning Web Development With Ruby On Rails & How I’m Doing It…
(via devbootcamp)
