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Just some scribbles and jots. These are just a few of the notes, videos, and screencasts taken by the team at Envy Labs. You're welcome to join in and contribute to our experiments.
5.1.12 by admin
Gregg Pollack talks about our online learning platform, buy generic cialisgeneric cialisCode School. Check out the video interview here.
3.16.12 by Gregg Pollack
Lots has happened since buy cialis onlinebuy cheap cialisRails for Zombies 2 was released last October, I can’t believe that was the last post to the Envy Labs blog! I definitely want to give you the rundown, but first I wanted to post a video which gives some insight into the course building process at Code School.
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Here’s the run down on what’s happened at Code School in the past few months.
Feel free to take a look around the generic viagraorder levitra onlineCode School site if you haven’t in a while. You’ll find many of our newer courses allow you to play the first level free. Also if you want to keep updated we’ve been blogging more on the order levitraorder levitraCode School Blog these days. You can also follow code school on twitter.
12.5.11 by Gregg Pollack
Envy Labs is officially looking for a (paid) intern. We looking for someone who:
10.26.11 by Gregg Pollack
Just yesterday Code School released Rails for Zombies 2, the sequel to the first Intro to Rails Zombie course. This new course picks up right where the last one left off with 5 more vidoes, and 52 more coding challenges. Topics include:
By the end of the course you’ll be much better prepared to create your own Rails applications. Here’s the intro video to learn more:
With Zombies 2 we also released our Code School Open Enrollment program, which allows you to get access to all our course for one low monthly price. Head over to Code School Enrollment to learn more about that.
10.7.11 by Jacob Swanner
Often, here at Envy Labs, when we start a new application, we’ll use the latest version of Rails available; even if that version happens to be a prerelease. Unfortunately, as new versions are released, it can be difficult to know what steps need to be taken to upgrade your applications.
There are many times when just modifying the Rails gem version in your Gemfile and then running bundle update seems to work: your tests still pass, application runs like normal, etc. So, you never think twice and go about continuing to develop your application. But, were there other changes that could/should have been made as well? Perhaps Rails has changed the default value for some configuration setting; perhaps release candidates did not deal with assets in the same way the final release did. If you are using prerelease versions, more things tend to change as newer versions come out.
9.29.11 by Gregg Pollack
There once was a developer named “why the lucky stiff” also known as ”_why”. He did many great things in the Ruby world, including the creation of an website called Try Ruby which allowed anybody to try their hand at programming ruby by coding in the browser.
Here at Envy Labs we’ve been inspired by _why’s work and you can see his influence with Rails for Zombies, where we teach people Rails by coding in the browser. Rails for Zombies was such a huge success it led us to build Code School, where we build paid coding courses.
We’ve learned a great deal about how to do in-browser coding as we’ve built Code School, and a few months ago Eric Allam started to wonder if we should take our knowledge and contribute back to TryRuby. After a call to Andrew McElroy who graciously maintained the project with David Miani (after _why disappeared), Eric dove in.
Flash forward two months later and today we’re happy to announce the release of TryRuby version 3!
9.23.11 by Gregg Pollack
Four years ago I was doing the Rails Envy Podcast when we received a voicemail from a listener known as R. Elliot Mason. The instant I heard the voicemail I knew it was special. I also knew there was only one way I could truly give tribute to such an amazing voicemail. Thus, the “We Ain’t Got No RSpec” Remix was born. Below you’ll find the original voicemail recording, followed by my Remix.
9.4.11 by eric
Last week I wrote a post about using the Asset Pipeline outside of Rails because we needed to test answers for Code School’s upcoming Zombies 2 course. But we also need a way to test javascript (that uses jQuery) that manipulates a DOM, and all from inside of Ruby.
ExecJS is a ruby gem that lets you run JavaScript code from Ruby. It does this by using the best javascript runtime available to evaluate Javascript and returning the result in Ruby! For example:
ExecJS.eval "'red yellow blue'.split(' ')"
# => ["red", "yellow", "blue"]
Rad! Or you can use it to compile a block of javascript and then call it later, like this:
context = ExecJS.compile "var run = function(foo) { return foo + foo }"
context.call 'run', 'bar'
# => 'barbar'
8.28.11 by eric
In our upcoming Rails for Zombies 2 Code School course, we have a couple of challenges that make use of Rails 3.1 new Asset Pipeline. The Asset Pipeline is the thing in Rails that serves up your javascript, images, and stylesheets. But it can also compile CoffeeScript into Javascript, or SASS into CSS.
And so we wanted to teach people a little bit of CoffeeScript/SASS in Rails for Zombies 2. But that means we have to have a way to test CoffeeScript/SASS. We accomplished this by extracting the bits in Rails 3.1 that implement the pipeline and used them to serve and compile CoffeeScript into Javascript and SASS into CSS.
8.23.11 by Gregg Pollack
Envy Labs is up to 20 people now, and we’re looking for one more Senior Ruby/Rails Developer to join our team here in Orlando, Florida. I prefer videos over typing (who da thought?), so here’s a video giving you a short tour of Envy Labs and talking a little about what it’s like to work with us.
To learn more about what is important to us, check out our Core Values. If you think having a set of Core Values is cheesy, please don’t apply. If you think you might be a good fit for our team, email me with some stuff you’ve done. You get a bonus for open source, videos of your presentations, and anything else you can send over (aside from a resume).
In the video I said that we organize the “weekly barcamp”, yes I meant “yearly”.. thank god.
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