Colin Di Meo

So these past few weeks we've been delving into Node.JS. It started out with a  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  and now half way through the course I'm extremely intrigued. I had the chance to go to a RailsBridge workshop this last weekend, and had my first foray into Ruby and Rails. That only drove me to be further interested, so much so that I've decided to re-consider if I'll be spending my last month at the Iron Yard on React, or Ruby. I love JS, and I love front end tweaking, I could spend hours tinkering away on CSS. However, once we started populating pages with Mustache, Mongoose and MongoDB I was just blown away. It's almost magical to see a page populate based off an API or a database. It's truly something special. I don't know exactly what I'll do yet, but I will admit - Ruby has definitely perked me up and has me looking at it seriously. I also like the idea of being introduced to a few different languages. I won't master anything in 3 months, so why no...

Shit. I forgot I was trying to do the blog thing while I was in the Iron Yard. Being in a gauntlet of learning and staring at a computer screen all day, rummaging through Stack Overflow and Google searches to figure out bits of code tends to dull your desire to hop on the computer for leisure.  It's been a huge gap between my last post and now, and between those times I've learned heavy amounts of HTML, CSS and Javascript. We're currently working on Node.JS using Sessions, Mustache and Body Parser as well as a few other things (Mongoose and MongoDB are next week!).  The pace at which we've gone, and the amount that I've learned has been immense. So immense it's precluded me from writing any of this kind of stuff. I'm dreaming about code. I'm thinking about code over my cereal in the morning. I'm thinking about code while I use the restroom. IT NEVER ENDS!!! I'm in the process of building a Mystery Word game using Node, Sessions & M...