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Words to erase from your vocabulary when coaching at RailsGirls

2012-11-28T20:15:19Z

On October 13th 2012 I had the pleasure of being a coach at RailsGirls in Munich.

Having spent quite a fair I amount of time in front of a computer screen, I gatherd a lot of tchnical terms and been using them as if they were standard vocabulary.

But if you use terms like ‘continuous deployment’, ‘rapid prototyping’ or ‘static typing’ like talking about the weather you will have a hard time teaching programming to a beginner. Unfortunately a lot of strange terms will arise during an eight hour course of web-development.

Because avoiding these terms all together will be impossible, you should be at least be in the position to give a good explanation to each and every of the following expressions (in alphabetical order):

database
datatype
migration
route/routing
server
string

But keep in mind. While looking up the correct definition might be a good idea, it’s much more effective to find a good metaphor that fits 90% of the time (e.g. a string is ‘a line of text’).

moved from jekyll to nanoc

2011-07-29T22:00:00Z

It’s been a while, since you’ve heard from me. In the meanwhile I managed to replace my static site generator. I successfully migrated my blog from jekyll to nanoc. The main reason for this is that is that nanoc lets you use complete ruby (using erb) in the front-end instead of inventing some own markup language.

The migration was easier than expected. I kept the date like permalinks from jekyll using this reply in the user group. For the pagination I followed the guide on the homepage. The published attribute from jekyll was pretty easy to integrate as I’ve seen a feature in a blog example on github.

These suggestions only left me with the migration of the articles, which was a piece of cake as the metadata syntax is almost the same.

new project - calcsub.net

2011-04-30T22:00:00Z

Over the easter holidays I started working on a new project. Today it has finally reached a state where I’m confident to say: I can go public.

It’s just a simple subnet calculator that takes IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and then calculates the start address and the end address.

You can have a look at it here or see the source on github.

The project is also added to the portfolio page.

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sexy tech links of april (last one)

2011-04-29T22:00:00Z

Notice: this bit will be the last “tech links of #{month}”. I decided to focus more on regular articles in the future.

Which open source license? - flowchart - Just in case you want to publish something.
Why Sign Up and Sign In Should Never Go Together - I try to keep that in mind if i ever get to build a system which requires user accounts.
HTML5 Page Structure - Lots of new metadata.

sexy tech links of march

2011-03-30T22:00:00Z

REST - REST is one of technologies, that nobody can explain. Here is a short overview where you can at least get an idea of what it might be.
10 examples of using find command in UNIX - This kind of a selfish link. I’ll post it so that I can find it later. But you can use it as well ;-).
The worst program I ever worked on - I think it will be a lot of fun to write code like that.