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What books on Ruby should I read when trying to move from Junior to Intermediate Developer?

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What books on Ruby should I read when trying to move from Junior to Intermediate Developer?

Want to avoid going through lots of frustration when self-learning Ruby or any other programming skills? In this post, I'm going to share a few tools for your self-learning technical practice toolkit and get the most out of your continuous technical practice.

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How To Build a Developer Portfolio and Be Stuck Forever

How To Build a Developer Portfolio and Be Stuck Forever

early career devs

How to Build a Developer Portfolio And Be Stuck Forever

Have you spent months building a tech portfolio to get your first developer job, but not getting any results? That's mainly because a portfolio is an endless project with no scope and no end-goal. It's easy to get stuck forever. How about building trust instead?

Thiago Araujo
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Will I ever get to this level? There's so much to learn!

early career devs

Examples of Successful Self-Taught Developers

Feel like coding is not for you? You're not alone. To give you a boost of inspiration, here's a list of a few successful Rails developers that come from unusual backgrounds.

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Photo by Ryanniel Masucol from Pexels

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The Unstuck Guide for Developers

Feeling frustrated with everything you need to learn? Feel like things will never 'click'? Try this surprisingly simple way to get unstuck as a developer.

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5 years of experience required for an entry-level Ruby job?! What nonsense is this?

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Dev With No Experience? Here's one way to get experience today.

Beep. Another rejection. You don't have experience for an entry-level Ruby job. Worse: chirp, chirp, chirp. No replies at all. Are you tired of all of this? If you want to get real-world experience, apply this strategy to get different results.

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