Crazy Week

So this entire last week I have been working my butt off. I found a job driving a ready mix truck. Pretty good job just long hours so studying has been hard. Once I get into the swing of things I should be able to schedule in my meetups. The company is really flexible and I at least have really great benefits like this 3 day weekend. I am getting a paid holiday after only a week of being there.

This weekend we Tanya, Gemma and I are going to have fun at frontier days and luckily it's right down the street from where we live.

One Month Rails Continues...

Ok, so after reviewing Ruby for the last few days and getting a better grasp of some of whats going on, I'm feeling much better and more confident. I still am unsure why my last app I started with One Month Rails was never able to get pushed to heroku. I have started the whole process over from scratch and was able to get my new One Month Rails app live on heroku.

I should have the app finished by the end of the day today if everything goes smoothly. You can check out my app at enigmatic-earth-3276.herokuapp.com

SO far everything has gone smoothly so up until this point I know I am not repeating the same mistake I had the first time around.

Total study time logged: 304 hours

More Ruby

For the last few days I have been going back and trying to understand Ruby a little better. I found it pretty cool I was able to get the structure of an app hammered out pretty quick and live as well. I just really want to understand and really look at all the code and try and understand whats going on. This is really fun and I figure I really should know especially because I moved through the first half of One Month Rails so fast.

I was really happy to get the domain I purchased on godaddy to work for my app. It didn't seem that hard at all to get all the forwarding set up. I was unsure at first if what I did actually worked but it just took about 14 hours to go through. It was overall an easy process on both godaddy and heroku to get everything all set up.

Total study time 280 Hours

Totally happy!

Wow, so I guess I have posted a lot in the last week. Yesterday I started working on my own personal app at around 1pm, (not the one month rails app) to see if I could get it pushed to heroku. At 8pm I did it. Yea I was cooking dinner, watching tv, and coding at the same time and somehow pulled that off. All I can say is that I am totally happy that I was able to git-er-done. Now I am going back through the one month rails app, I am not sure if I will launch that one yet or not but I am starting over with that one from scratch.

I probably will kick butt today and leave tomorrow for Mothers Day. I think I deserve a days break and Tanya definitely deserves a special day. Thanks for being so awesome babe!

You can check out my app but please keep in mind that this is by far not close to being done. Just a work in progress and something to push live. www.jon-rogers.com

Starting from scratch

I still haven't been able to solve the problem with not being able to push my app to heroku. I have had a lot of help from everyone and I really appreciate all your time and effort with this. Due to not having any idea where the issue is, I have decided to start over from scratch to see if it was something I had done while building the app. Maybe this time around everything will go smoothly. Fingers crossed, I guess we will find out soon enough.

In other news, the DTC Ruby meetup went well and had some great presentations. Just a great group of people.

Halfway through One Month Rails

I have made it about halfway through One Month Rails and everything has seemed to be going great until I tried to push my app to heroku. Gosh what a headache! The funny thing is I already know that it is a simple fix. Oh well, looking at the glass half full, I will at least know what to do next time this issue pops up.

This is the error that keeps occuring:

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

Besides the frustration of not being able to push my app to heroku, I'm pretty happy with what I have learned so far.

Total study time: 245 hours

Starting One Month Rails

So this last month I have been learning all about HTML5, CSS3 a little JavaScript and a lot of Ruby. I have started to get used to working with the command line in terminal and I have also been learning a lot about git. I think I have enough of an understanding of ruby and the flow and the different things ruby can do, that I am now ready to start really getting into rails. I have met a lot of people who started with rails and soon realized that they needed to learn ruby in order to understand what was going on. I wanted to learn a good amount of ruby in order to understand rails.

I know that I have a long way to go but I have at least an idea of how things work. I am excited to know that I am ready to start applying what I have learned so far to actually building something besides HTML and CSS pages. I'm going to start with One Month Rails and then after that I will start reading Learning Webb App Development by Semmy Purewal as a primer before reading Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl.

I have realized that when you apply what you are learning to actually creating something, it sinks in a lot better. What I don't really like about the online schools where you code in the browser is that you never work towards something real. They have great information and teach you a lot but what I realized just in the HTML and CSS section on codecademy was that I had learned a lot more through reading Learning Wed Design by Jennifer Robbins and actually understood what I had learned and had already applied it to creating my own pages for my own personal website.

All in all I am really happy with my progress in April. I got off to a good start and now I am ready to keep on building off what I have learned so far. I never would have even imagined that I would be doing anything like this just 2 months ago. I was planning on driving a ready mix truck this summer but have realized I found something I love doing. I get to create cool stuff! Now I just need to keep learning and find a job that will allow me to grow and learn on the job.

A slow start for May

May has so far started off pretty slow. The flu has hit all of us here at home and we have not been able to do much besides try and get better. I have only been able to get a few hours of study time in during the morning while everyone is still asleep.

Once we beat this nasty bug going around, I should be back on track with my regular amount of study time of 8-10 hours per day.