{"id":41,"date":"2015-07-08T00:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T00:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djmblog.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-07-08T00:15:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T00:15:04","slug":"coding-dojo-weeks-9-12-and-post-bootcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/41\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding Dojo, weeks 9-12 and post-Bootcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dinosaurcountry\/19509129425\" title=\"afternoon at the Coding Dojo by Daniel J. McKeown, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/422\/19509129425_86336e6fb9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"afternoon at the Coding Dojo\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our cohort of students has graduated from the Coding Dojo. \u00a0Now a number of us are engaged in the &#8220;engineer in residence&#8221; program which is focused on getting projects finished and deployed along with\u00a0 job search skills and techniques.<\/p>\n<p>In the last handful of weeks I have\u00a0learned a new language&#8211;Ruby&#8211;and tried out a couple ways to serve web pages using it: first with Sinatra, then with Rails. \u00a0While working on understanding the Rails MVC structure and its ActiveRecord ORM tool for databases, I started a on few projects including a yoga teaching platform (a codebase that I intend to continue to enhance with input from my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/omgurlyoga\">yogi wife<\/a>) and a social bookmarking tool. \u00a0With working betas of these projects done and having worked through the Dojo material (which heavily emphasized test driven development [TDD]), I was finally ready to take on the Rails black belt exam.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I can call myself a Coding Dojo blackbelt, I am looking forward to many upcoming coding challenges, including building some new projects on the MEAN stack using NodeJS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cohort of students has graduated from the Coding Dojo. \u00a0Now a number of us are engaged in the &#8220;engineer in residence&#8221; program which is focused on getting projects finished and deployed along with\u00a0 job search skills and techniques. In the last handful of weeks I have\u00a0learned a new language&#8211;Ruby&#8211;and tried out a couple ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/djmcloud.danieljmckeown.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}