Another post today continuing with my math problem project. This one is very mathy, but if you understand the straightforwardness of the theory, this one is not as confusing as my previous entry. ###PROBLEM STATEMENT The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29. …

If you’re coming from my last blog, you’ve probably picked up on the fact I started doing the classic Euler project. So here’s the next challenge… ## Problem: Even Fibonacci - Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. …

If you are new to programming, I’m going to recommend a book that will allow you to take your eyes off a screen (unless you really prefer it online) for 30min-1hr day: Code Complete (link to amazon). In this blog, I will apply some lessons learned from chapter 9 on…

Last week, I participated in an online event hosted by skilled. If you are unfamiliar with the site, basically they provide a platform for mock technical interviews. Pass or fail, I find it’s a worthwhile experience to check out their services if you are in the interviewing processes. Anyone who…

First of all, what is Ruby-on-Rails? Simply, it’s a ruby gem, a code library, which is open source, and an MVC web framework. What’s great about that, is that using Rails, you won’t have create the base application functionality over and over again. So let’s jump into how to get…

I’m assuming if you’re coming to this article from my last, you felt there was a little bit of unresolved information. Can you elaborate a little bit on this ORM thing? Why all this secrecy behind ActiveRecord? An Object-Relation Mapper allows object-oriented programming to use an SQL database, which is…

Seeing this recent article about Theranos in between deploying apps on Heroku, it felt like the right time to talk structured query languages and databases. In this first blog, I’ll discuss a little bit how the two are related and used by this Rubyist. …