10-02-2022

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Meta Stuff

still need to sort out the bspwm desktops - these windows for zoom and slack are driving me nuts and I want to isolate them into their own desktop

Today's Foci

Focus 1

  1. Get through the pair challenge to prep for Friday
  2. Finish the pair challenge before 1400 today

Focus 2

  1. Look at the Friday challenge and get a vague plan
  2. Having read through it

Focus 3

  1. Read more of the Database Design for Mere Mortals
  2. expect.(blog_notes).to have_content 'notes on book'

Topic

Bookmarks

First off was fixing a typo, which helped significantly.

I must rememeber to think about refactoring the code out of the Controller, and into the model - if I think of it using the model first, retrieving the SQL query might make a little more sense.

Wrapping Data in Objects

Obviously - data is just data

to build on the fantastic quote the other day 'date is what you store, information is what you retrieve' we want to "wrap" ( more stupid jargon designed to obfuscate meaning ) - we want to "wrap" the data into a Ruby/Language object, so we can manipulate that data as we wish.

Ace - makes sense to me.

There we go - useful jargon. We're building an Object-Relation-Mapper. Hooray! Why am I so sassy today?

Useful Tactics

On a html form

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />

The value must be 'Submit' with a capitalized 'S'

open a new tab!

target="_blank"

add a placeholder to an input

<input ...placeholder="Enter your name here" />