ConU or Contribution University is an app for software developers that want to track their contributions to open source projects. I built the first version of this todo-style app with Ruby on Rails (RoR) with an SQLite database and have now added the use of JavaScript (JS) and an Active Model Serializer JSON Backend to create model objects and render an index and show page without a page refresh.
As a student more than halfway through the full-time online immersive software engineering program at Flatiron School, I’ve already been on a couple of job interviews. In my first interview, I was given the following paraphrased advice by a VP of Software Engineering:
I look at the mental game of coding like this…
There are three problems with the way news is done today:
I believe in keeping things fun, simple, and low-stress whenever possible because often my nature takes me in the exact opposite direction and that, I’ve found, is not a healthy or productive state for me.