In Part 1 I'll explain how computers read 1s and 0s. Part 2 explains how software emerges from these numbers.

Most people know that 1s and 0s are the foundation for everything that happens inside a computer. What often isn’t so clear is what these 1s and 0s are actually doing. How does the text on your screen materialize from 1s and 0s? How can such complex applications--which include graphics, user interaction, you name it--all boil down to a string of binary?

Finding the right co-founding team is a difficult task for the entrepreneur. While there are community driven events to help folks meet each other, finding someone highly technical who is willing to start a company with you is going to be difficult, no matter what. This becomes even more difficult if you are bootstrapping, because technical people who are capable of handling a founder role can command a good salary these days.

Quick Left hosted the RailsBridge workshop, along with the organization of the event by Thoughtbot's Desi McAdam, earlier this month. We asked some participants to let us know their thoughts on the event and Katie and Paul of 23rd Studios graciously volunteered to share their experiences below. Not only that, they took amazing photos of the event. And yes, that's me giving a speech in a bike helmet.

Hi there, we’re Katie Falkenberg and Paul Talbot, co-owners of 23rd Studios. We just attended the most recent RailsBridge at Quick Left in Boulder and had a blast!

Paul has always been interested in learning new things and has been taken with code ever since he was a youngster. He mostly does photography and video, but Katie does a lot of web work, though mostly on the design end, and when the chance came up to attend the RailsBridge workshop, we both jumped at the chance.

Virtually every application needs a solid way to organize and store application level configuration settings. There are a slew of gems out that purport to do the work for you, but here is a solution that you can implement in short order, with no external dependencies.

Hi! Welcome to my blog series! If this is your first time here, the general idea is to explore many facets of programming from the perspective of a beginner. This week, we're building off what we learned last week, which was a beginner's guide to SQL!

Hello hackers! This is my ongoing blog series about various topics in web development. Previously, we covered command line usage from a complete beginner's perspective, eventually moving towards some more advanced command line topics.

We'll be firing up the terminal for some examples later on, so if that sounds like something you wouldn't be comfortable with, I definitely recommend checking out last week's post which was a review of sorts.

Ready? Here we go!

Welcome back to my blog post series! Back in January, we set out to learn as much as we could about utilizing the command line from the perspective of a complete and total beginner. I don't know about you, but I've definitely picked up a lot of command line chops just in the process of researching and writing these posts. I thought it'd be useful to lay out what what we've gone over, as both a refresher and an indicator of how much ground we've covered.

Greetings, friends! Welcome back to my ongoing command line series. If this is your first time here, you might want to check out some of the older posts before diving in. Today we're going to talk about the 'xargs' command in depth, and then we'll touch on the cut command.

Hi everybody! We're serving up another helping of command line tips and tricks this week. Halloween is a couple months away still, but I'm tentatively calling this feature Trick and Treat. If you have no idea what this series is about, check out my previous posts!

In this article, we'll show you how to create a basic Node.js application using the Express framework and deploy it to both Heroku and Nodejitsu.