I have recently been working on a project which deals a lot with front-end technologies. While writing automated tests for this project, I came across this interesting thing called the XPath, when trying to locate the various elements in a web application. I have not dived deep into it yet, but basically, XPath is an … More XPath: Ways to define it.
Wrapping up chapter 5, and moving on to chapter 6. What is there to be learned next… … More Ruby on Rails Tutorial (part. 4)
Rails-flavoured Ruby? What does that even mean… … More Ruby on Rails Tutorial (part. 3)
Continuing my learning from Michael Hartl’s book, Ruby on Rails Tutorial. This post reviews what I took away from Chapter 3. … More Ruby on Rails Tutorial (part. 2)
This blog post covers my learning from the first 2 chapters of Michael Hartl’s book, Ruby on Rails Tutorial. … More Ruby on Rails Tutorial (part. 1)
How one picks up a new language, is to learn a few words at a time, and practice it. I have had a brief experience (or crash course) with Ruby previously. However, as I have not been practicing it, I’ve forgotten most of it. Starting afresh, I’m going back to basics to re-learn things all … More Learning Ruby
Just followed Getting Started with Rails from the Ruby on Rails guide here. First impression is that, there is quite a bit of magic when using Rails. There are generators that help to generate the necessary files, and even database migration scripts. On top of that, there is also some magical linking happening. Just to sum … More Ruby on Rails (Getting Started)
How often do we use this word in our modern day lives? Do we ask for help when we need it? Or do we take it a step further to ask others if they need some help when we see them in need? It was a wet start to the workday in town where many … More HELP!
Now that I have a little bit of time on my hands, I’ve begun picking up a little on C#. Being a person used to Java, it was confusing to just dive into C#. Sure there were similarities here and there, with some data types, and control flows. However there are also notable differences which … More Getting Started in C#
It has been a while since I last put up a post. During that time, I’ve been to multiple interviews, collected my degree and transcript, and also decided to start my full time career as a software developer with ThoughtWorks. It has been close to two months since I joined ThoughtWorks and it has been … More TWU 50
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