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Dave Guymon

Dave Guymon

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I love coding. I didn't learn that about myself until years after college. In 2017, I switched careers from being a public educator to working in software. Now I'm just trying to figure it all out!

Are Algorithms Really Like a Recipe?

Oct 24, 20222 min read

Digging deeper into definition before diving into algorithm types · If you've ever asked someone what a computer algorithm is, you might have been told...

Are Algorithms Really Like a Recipe?

If Life Is A Game, How Do You Play It?

May 27, 20226 min read

The most important lesson I learned about career success and leadership. · One of my favorite movies is War Games. This 1983 hacker classic tells the...

If Life Is A Game, How Do You Play It?

There Are No Bad Seeds, Only Bad Gardens

May 19, 20225 min read

How to create the optimal environment and conditions for promoting teammates' growth · I've spent the last few evenings preparing my garden for planting...

There Are No Bad Seeds, Only Bad Gardens

Improving Performance through Self-Reflection

May 11, 20225 min read

A critical trait of all successful software developers. · Software developers like improvements. Uptime, low request duration, automation, and...

Improving Performance through Self-Reflection

Building a Reading Log App with the Google Books API and Ruby on Rails - Part 5

May 8, 202210 min read

User authentication with Devise and multi-tenancy with acts_as_tenant · In part 4 of this series, we finally implemented the ability to create books in...

Building a Reading Log App with the Google Books API and Ruby on Rails - Part 5

Building a Reading Log App with the Google Books API and Ruby on Rails - Part 4

May 2, 202210 min read

Creating Book records by passing fetched API data from a view to a controller and permitting jsonb data types in strong params · In part 3 of this...

Building a Reading Log App with the Google Books API and Ruby on Rails - Part 4