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• Customize your Ruby classes with to_s and inspect
• Exposing the code school lie
• Find the Why to Find the Way
• Hop off the tutorial treadmill with comment-driven development
• How do you get experience being a good teammate if you don't work in a team?
• How to build, retain and USE programming knowledge
• How do you build a GitHub portfolio when you don’t want anyone to see your code?
• How to convert a Ruby primitive to a custom domain object in two minutes
• How to learn Enumerable really really ridiculously good
• If you can't find the time to work on open source...
• If you don't know which open source projects you should work on...
• Is it important to write tests when you're coding for yourself?
• Is this deadly sin killing your Ruby code?
• How you can learn more by writing code than by reading it
• Learning to program doesn't happen by accident
• Master TDD by predicting the future
• Not sure what test to write next? Create a TODO list with pending specs
• One item or many? Array() lets you have both
• Refactor away duplication in your RSpec tests using the Parameterized Test Method
• Create great Ruby programs fast with self-reliance
• 6 ways to make sure you get helpful replies when posting a programming question to Stack Overflow (and reddit, mailing lists, and forums...)
• So you want to become a full-stack developer...
• The #1 mistake you make when doing TDD
• The two DHH-approved programming habits that will make you a good programmer
• Three ways to identify a company where you'll find a healthy work-life balance
• To learn Ruby and Javascript at the same time or to focus on just one... that is the question
• Tutorials don't have an expiration date
• Understand TDD by asking one simple question
• Want to make the jump to freelancing? You're better off slowly transitioning
• What kind of Ruby app should you build if you want to get a job?
• What Ruby's zero? method can teach you about object-oriented programming
• What's the best DNS host for your own web site? All your domain are belong to DNSimple
• What's the big deal about open source?
• How to discover which technologies you need to know to land your Ruby programming dream job
• Why do exceptions happen all the time in Ruby and Rails applications?
• Why I turned down a $250k/yr programming job when I was 22
• Why learning Ruby takes a lot longer than you think... and what you can do about it
• Why learning your second programming language can be harder than the first
• Why pairing with someone who knows less than you is the best way you can spend your time
• You can create a better tomorrow, starting today
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