[bswen]

I've worked as the main developer and designer at an online publication using Drupal, then WordPress, among many other duties including communications and social media. I learned enough PHP and HTML/CSS/jQuery to write custom themes and a couple custom plugins. Recently I started working a side project as a technical cofounder (called SpareChair) and have been working with a design/dev shop to build the site with Rails. The TeaLeaf Academy has nailed the tough problem of learning to code with Ruby and Rails online. It's a Goldilocks combo of written and video tutorials and exercises, weekly live sessions and nearly instant responses to questions from students, the founders and TAs in their project forums. It's focused on producing a coder ready to sit in that dev bullpen and hang with everyone from day one of the job and accomplishes that goal. And it's very affordable, the ROI is amazing. Anyone looking to get into Ruby and Rails should check it out.