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Chris Oliver
Personal blog · excid3.com/blog · on HN as excid3programmingcareer
Chris Oliver's personal blog at excid3.com covers programming and career. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Chris Oliver's personal site, linked as a pointer to its author, a Rails community member who also maintains Jumpstart Rails. The comments do not discuss the posts themselves.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Chris Oliver specializes in web development with Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML5, and CSS3
What Hacker News says?
https://jumpstartrails.com/ It's very polished. Kept up to date. Follows best practices for RoR. The author is one of the most active RoR community members. https://excid3.com/ edit: If you like PHP then https://spark.laravel.com/ is an official Laravel project. I haven't used it but I've seen discussions where folks recommend it.
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on “What's the best SaaS starter kit?”Submitted Ideas For Beginning Web Developers as a story · 99 points
HN discussionAre there ruby or rails user groups/meetups around you? If not, there's a bunch of mentor groups, or reddit seems pretty supportive. Stackoverflow is pretty good but there aren't enought people answering questions for the volume they're getting http://www.railsmentors.org/ https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/Available-mentors http://www.reddit.com/r/rails/ http://installfest.railsbridge.org/installfest/ (Rail…
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on “Help with Rails?”Submitted You Don’t Truly Understand It Until You Think It’s Obvious as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking Back At What I Learned At College as a story · 47 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The Customers You Really Want as a story · 14 points
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HN discussionSubmitted How I Find Motivation as a story · 6 points
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