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Learn to make and sell . Making and selling are the two most valuable skills you can master this year. And I mean making and selling in the broadest terms. If you're a developer, making comes naturally to you. But in addition to making software, I also mean making other things - music, stories, furniture, paintings. If you're a developer, you might not be keen on selling. But I'm not talking about…
harishg.jpg 7.79 KB Today, I am interviewing Harish Garg , a software developer, educator and author of the an upcoming book on how to build products with GPT-3 . This interview is part of the Learnetto Interview Series with interesting experts and teachers from all walks of life. Please introduce yourself - who are you and what do you do? I am Harish Garg and I am a Founder, Software Developer…
Today, I am interviewing Kevin Cunningham , a software developer, educator and author of the brand new book on Headless WordPress which launched on Learnetto this week. This interview is part of the Learnetto Interview Series with interesting experts and teachers from all walks of life. Please introduce yourself - who are you and what do you do? Hi! I’m Kevin Cunningham. I run a digital…
This job opportunity has now closed. We are no longer accepting applications. To be the first to find out about future job opportunities at Learnetto, sign up to our newsletter . At Learnetto , we pride ourselves on producing the highest quality educational tutorials and courses for software developers. We have big plans for launching some great new courses and tutorials in 2020. And are looking…
Today I'm pleased to interview Ajdin Imsirovic, senior developer, author and teacher of two brand new Angular courses on Learnetto - The Free Visual Guide to Getting Started with Angular and The Complete Practical Angular Course . In this interview, Ajdin shares his thoughts on Angular and frontend web development. Please introduce yourself. My name is Ajdin Imsirovic. I'm a self-taught full stack…
The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James is a strange and funny book. It's one of my all-time favourites. These are some of my favourite quotes from the book: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." "I don't know whether I am Turing dreaming that I am a machine, or a machine dreaming that I am Turing!" "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design…
UPDATE : A new version of the Complete React on Rails Course is open for pre-orders. Get $10 Off Today . When you start using React with Rails, one of the frustrating problems you quickly run into is trying to access associated model data from your React component. Let's say we are building a chat app with Rails and React . We have three models, Chatroom, Message and User, which have the following…
Rails shipped without jQuery as a dependency for the first time with version 5.1. Rails used to rely on jQuery for Unobtrusive JavaScript features but now ships with its own library rails-ujs with the same features. One of the most common use cases for jQuery in Rails was making AJAX calls through forms and links. If you’re using Rails 5.1 for the first time, you might get confused about how to…
UPDATE : A new version of the Complete React on Rails Course is open for pre-orders. Get $10 Off Today . The webpacker gem has given us an easy way to use JavaScript libraries, including React, inside Rails while using native JS tools like yarn and Webpack. If you’re using Rails 5.1 or higher, you can directly create a new app with React support out of the box simply by running: $ rails new myapp…
I gave a talk titled 'How to use React with Rails' at the June meetup of the London Ruby User Group (LRUG) . You can watch the talk here on the Skills Matter website . The slides are on Speakerdeck . If you enjoyed the talk, check out my Free React on Rails course and The Complete React on Rails course . "How to use React with Rails" LRUG June 2017
This is a step-by-step tutorial that will show you how to do basic form validation in React. You can see the full code on Github and see the app running on Heroku . We’ll use create-react-app to get up and running quickly with a simple React app. Install the package from npm and create a new app: $ npm install -g create-react-app $ create-react-app react-form-validation-demo Now let’s run the app:…
Please subscribe to the Learnetto Podcast in iTunes and rate us to help us reach more people. Swizec Teller is our guest on the newest episode of the Learnetto podcast . Swizec is a talented and accomplished software engineer, originally from Slovenia, now based in San Francisco. Now he helps startups, having previously collaborated with MasterCard, Google, and Mashable, among others. A…
UPDATE on 18 November 2021: See the new tutorial on How to use React with Rails 7 (including Ruby 3 and import maps). Note: This tutorial has been updated for the latest versions of Rails and React. It is based on Ruby 2.6.5 and the latest Rails gem (6.0.1 at the time of writing this tutorial). You can install and use Ruby 2.6.5 using Ruby version manager (rvm) like this: $ rvm install 2.6.5 $ rvm…
Original here ;) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto#/media/File:Matz.jpg Here's an excerpt from my article on Medium: Rails developers should learn React because there's growing market demand for developers who know both. Learning to use React will make you more money and a better developer. In many ways, React is to the modern frontend, what Rails is to the backend - there are…
Please subscribe to the Learnetto Podcast in iTunes and rate us to help us reach more people. Our latest guest on the Learnetto Podcast is Taylor Pearson , entrepreneur, marketing coach, and author of the bestselling book The End of Jobs , about a new landscape of the job market. We invited Taylor to talk about his background and the interesting thesis of his book - that in today's world it’s…
Disqus is the most popular, reliable and straightforward way of adding comments to your site without having to code it up from scratch yourself. It automatically handles user authentication, threaded comments, voting and spam control. In this short tutorial, you'll learn how to add a commenting system to your Rails blog (or site) using Disqus.
Please subscribe to the Learnetto Podcast in iTunes and rate us to help us reach more people. On today's episode, Hrishi is speaking with Matt Isherwood, a user experience designer and instructor based in London. Matt is a UX design consultant specialising in e-commerce, marketplace websites, and mobile apps. He has years of experience in the luxury sector and working on UX strategy with startups.…
This is a guest post by Samir Talwar , a software developer based in London. Samir cares deeply about software quality and craftsmanship. You can read more of his writing on his excellent blog and follow him on Twitter . In my last tutorial, we figured out how to host static web pages for free on GitHub pages . However, if you tried to host images or other large assets in the same fashion, you may…
LaTeX is a system for preparing professional documents. It was created by an American computer scientist Leslie Lamport. Leslie Lamport, creator of LaTeX. Image under GFDL. The aim of this tutorial is to offer a simple introduction to LaTeX. It includes information on how to get the LaTeX system, what hacks to use, and how to get to like LaTeX. I am a self-taught LaTeX user so I know from…
Please subscribe to the Learnetto Podcast in iTunes and rate us to help us reach more people. Marko Vuletič is a Slovenian web & mobile UI/UX design professional. His work is centred around creating apps and websites which are visually pleasing, but, most importantly, functional and user-friendly. An app he redesigned, Moments, has been featured by the US App Store as the best new app. Marko also…
Please subscribe to the Learnetto Podcast in iTunes and rate us to help us reach more people. Our guest on the fourth episode of the Learnetto podcast is Cindy Potvin, a Montreal-based software developer. Cindy started blogging about her experience of Android and web application development in October 2013 at blog.cindypotvin.com . Since then, her blog grew to include series " Learning as a…
Saul Costa Super excited to publish this interview! I recently spoke to Saul Costa , co-founder and CEO of Codevolve , an exciting new company which makes an amazing product for interactively learning computer programming. Go check it out. You can also follow Saul on Twitter . Here's the interview: Hrishi Mittal (HM): Hi Saul, how’s it going? Saul Costa (SC): It’s going great, how about you? HM:…
Samir Talwar This is a guest post by Samir Talwar , a software developer based in London. Samir cares deeply about software quality and craftsmanship. You can read more of his writing on his excellent blog and follow him on Twitter . I run a few websites. The one that gets the most traffic right now is communitycodeofconduct.com , which is used by a number of software communities as a place to…
Please subscribe to the Learnetto Podcast in iTunes and rate us to help us reach more people. In episode 3 of the Learnetto Podcast, I spoke to Laurence Bradford, a self-taught developer, who has been teaching herself how to code for 3 years. Having experienced the difficulties of the learning process first-hand, Laurence understands the most effective ways to obtain tech skills. Her website Learn…
Please subscribe to the Learnetto Podcast in iTunes and rate us to help us reach more people. In the second episode of the Learnetto podcast, I interviewed Imran Esmail of Escape Your Desk Job . Imran is an expert marketer who teaches people how to use social platforms like Quora and Slideshare as a way to grow your audience. He is the co-author of the Domination Series books Quora Domination and…
Please subscribe to the Learnetto Podcast in iTunes and rate us to help us reach more people. For this very first episode of the Learnetto podcast, I interviewed Kalob Taulien , CTO of Xcellerator Tools and web development teacher. Hrishi Mittal (HM) : Welcome to the first episode of the Learnetto podcast. I am Hrishi Mittal, your host and the founder of Learnetto, an awesome new place for…
This is a guest post by Juan Pablo Amaya, a product developer at CodeScrum . Codescrum is a software development company led by Jairo Diaz and focuses on creating user centric digital services and products for clients. This post originally appeared on the CodeScrum blog . In a past post we shared a Rails starter template ( rails-template ) with a minimal base for building common rails…
This is a guest post by Linda Haviv , a web development student and Community Engagement Producer at Fox News. This post originally appeared on Medium . Web scraping is so cool but if you have never done it before you may not know where to begin… not to worry! The following is a beginner’s guide to web scraping in Ruby. When I was first introduced to data scraping, I was super excited to give it a…
Betalist gave us a nice boost of signups to our beta mailing list Learnetto got featured on Betalist last week on Monday 1st Feb 2016 — https://betalist.com/startups/learnetto . It was a good experience for us and gave a much needed kickstart to our marketing. Learnetto listing on Betalist I just want to quickly share our results and some tips so that you can get the most for your startup if you…
I've been reading Justin Jackson 's new book Marketing for Developers and finding it extremely useful to plan the marketing for Learnetto , a marketplace for courses on learning how to build and sell products online. These are my notes: First things first - I'm not reading this book cover to cover. I'm using it as a hands-on how to guide to do specific things. I've read lots of books and blog…