Rob Dodson is a web developer focused on building impactful web experiences with a strong passion for climate change. He shares insights on front-end engineering, climate tech careers, and sustainable technology through practical posts and real-world projects.
70 articles from this blog
A Ruby programming tutorial on how to write a program to check if a sentence is a pangram and find missing letters.
A tutorial on building a basic web scraper using the Nokogiri gem in Ruby to parse HTML and count word frequencies.
A tutorial on using D3.js linear scales to map data domains to visual ranges, demonstrated with a Fibonacci sequence chart.
An introductory guide to understanding and using scales in the D3.js library for data visualization.
A technical guide on integrating D3.js data visualizations into the Octopress blogging platform, including a working bar chart example.
Explains why Ruby Hashes don't support dot syntax for property access and compares them to Classes, Structs, and OpenStructs.
A tutorial exploring Ruby's Date class, the Chronic natural language parser, and Active Support for date manipulation.
A beginner's guide to installing and using RVM (Ruby Version Manager) for managing Ruby versions and gemsets in Rails development.
Explains a common Ruby on Rails syntax error (missing comma) and discusses Ruby's optional parentheses for method arguments.
A beginner's guide to understanding and fixing the NoMethodError in Ruby on Rails 3, explaining its common causes.
