Design

Design is the way your product looks and feels. It is really important, both to get users interested and to keep users engaged with your application. When I first started, I neglected design, and this was a terrible mistake. Luckily it makes for a great example of what not to…

Deploying Rails on DigitalOcean

Introduction: After completing Leo Trieu's tutorial, Hero: Learn Ruby on Rails and Full stack by cloning Code4Startup - version PRO, I wanted to make my website live. Initially I tried to deploy using Heroku, as Leo had taught me in the Newbie Version. However, Heroku forces you to use PostgreSQL…

Revisiting Sockets

Over the last couple of days, I have revisited Socket.io because I realized that I did not understand its power and coolness while I was doing the Chat-App Project. I have decided to implement a few new features, including: making it responsive, adding sounds when a user sends or…