When you learn to code, there is a moment when everything begins to change. At Firehose, we like to call this the inflection point of coding. After this phase, the way you operate as a developer will be dramatically different. Building up to the inflection point is the process of becoming self-sufficient in programming, to the point…
Ken Mazaika
In the next few articles, we’re going to share some snippets of questions and answers that we’ve been dealing with during our 12 week course office hours. We’re putting these in blog post format so that we can help guide your research on how to become a web developer and also provide a public place…
Ken Mazaika
The first step of coding is getting in a place where you can write and run code you wrote. To do so, you’ll need to install a few programs and configure a few accounts. While this sounds easy and you’ve probably installed other programs on your computer like Spotify, Excel or Photoshop, developer programs aren’t…
Ken Mazaika
We’re going to be using a tool called nitrous.io to set up a web development environment. Nitrous.IO is a fully fledged web development environment that is accessible inside a web browser. This is the real thing, and will let you build your own web applications (it’s not an interactive tutorial – it’s a fully powerful…
Ken Mazaika
If you’re using CarrierWave to upload images to your web application, and you haven’t changed how the images get stored, you’re going to run into problems when you push up to heroku. Heroku allows us to store our code, and the images we know about as we’re building our web application, but they don’t play…
Ken Mazaika
I was working on a web application with a visual designer. He handed off the design for the site to me and it looked killer. I went ahead and coded the change up in HTML & CSS. When I thought I was done, I was super stoked and I showed it to him. His response? That’s…
Ken Mazaika