Week 3 Day 2 - Tumblr.find_post_by_date

Today's partner: Michael D.

Unpacking, since I can't actually remember what we did today:

I know this isn't the point of appAcademy, but today was the most fun I've had since we started. Michael and I were cracking up about mistakes and ruby/SQL absurdities all day.

Yeah, so we were doing something with SQL… I thought populating the test database would be more onerous than it was, but really it was a couple INSERT procedures copied over and over.

Oh, I remember now… so we made basically a tiny reddit clone, using database accesses on an SQLite3 instance. By reddit clone, I mean a class structure with Posts, Users, and Comment trees (Questions, Users, and Replys), where we had to write procedures to translate between stored and active objects. It was very educational, but similar to yesterday in that it was a straight walk through the instructions, implementing some calls that were well within our understanding of SQL and Ruby. Certainly nothing earth shattering, but the practice was good.

In not quite unrelated news, I've been meaning to get my financials in a format I can actually do something with… I think I have just enough tools to start doing something interesting with my data. A CSV parser, an SQLite3 instance, and a lot of ruby code, and I could probably do some pretty damned cool stuff :)