This morning I had a customer discovery interview…(I know I haven’t blogged in a while, but in short: I’m working on a new independent project and working with foodies all day)…ok, back to the blog post. So, this morning I had a customer discovery interview with a small grocery owner for said project. During the […]
Isn’t it ironic that the founder and organizer of Black Founders is saying that she’s sick of the diversity in tech talks? Here’s a couple of scenarios that’s happened over the past couple of weeks. – I participate in the Launch hackathon. As the hackathon is ending, the Launch conference begins and opens up with […]
Testing is a subject that is often talked about as a best practice in the Rails community. However, behind the scenes, many a Rubyist forego testing, using lack of time and “prototyping” as an excuse. The root cause is that a lot of Rubyist have bad habits that need to be broken, including myself. Two […]
Tbl uses a script for starting new rails projects. After you run ‘rails new example -d=postgresql’, create a new file in the script folder of the new project. (don’t worry about an extension for the file) Add the contents to the new file This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted […]
(excerpt from Thunderbolt Labs Blog) The Thunderbolt Labs team is highly distributed and travels often. You can find us working at any given moment from San Francisco, Virginia, Maryland, PDX, Barcelona, Sweden, or in between at 38,000 feet. Our team works (and plays) better together than a lot of companies we know where everyone’s forced […]
This week pairing with Tammer Saleh has been pretty cool. Its a great opportunity and I’m learning a lot. My main reasons for joining the TBL team is to ramp up my developer skills. The first feedback from Tammer, after our pairing session was that I didn’t know how to type. Actually, he told me […]
I’m excited to announce that last week I joined the Thunderbolt Labs family. I’ve accepted a role as an apprentice and will be supporting operations, as well as ramping up to be a badass developer. Wait! What about Picturely? Picturely was a great project where I learned a lot. One of the goals of picturely […]
My blog posts have been quiet with intention. My main objective for blogging is to document my journey as an entrepreneur and developer for my personal use and for others who may have an interest. Its a rarity that I write about personal matters, however I could not return to the routine of blogging without […]
This weekend I participated in the AT&T Mobile HTML5 Hackathon. I had very mixed feelings in the beginning about my participation for multiple reasons. The first reason in which I was against participating is because I have a number of incomplete apps from previous hackathons that I have yet to complete, and I didn’t want […]
Compiled list of my fav resources and tutorials for building rails web apps Twitter Bootstrap is a great styling and css template. It also has responsive design http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ Railscast Tutorial on Twitter Bootstrap http://railscasts.com/episodes/328-twitter-bootstrap-basics OmniAuth Login Authentication https://github.com/intridea/omniauth Railscast Tutorial on OmniAuth http://railscasts.com/episodes/241-simple-omniauth
Hadiyah Mujhid 