Free Ruby on Rails Workshop at Blue Apron

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Anthony E. Alvarez

I am teaching at a free 1.5 day weekend workshop geared towards introducing women to Ruby on Rails. The goal of the course is to help women build their first database driven website. In this workshop, we’ll take you through building a complete web application using Ruby on Rails. By the end of the day, you’ll have an application that connects to a database and reads and writes information. This workshop will be focused on developing web apps and programming in Ruby.

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Second Avenue Subway Opens

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Anthony E. Alvarez

As a native new Yorker. I remember my uncle telling me as a child, that Second Avenue Subway would be finished when I became an adult. Well. the grand opening has finally arrived today.

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VMs for Local Development at WPNYC

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Anthony Alvarez

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Presenting at WordCamp NYC Meetup from 6PM.in Microsoft Headquarters New York City.

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Free Ruby on Rails Workshop at NYCDA

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Anthony E. Alvarez

Free Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women in New York. Photo credit: Together Visuals

This workshop focus will be on developing functional web apps and programming in Ruby. Held on September 9 and 10th at The New York Code + Design Academy located in financial district of lower Manhattan.

RailsBridge NYC works to increase diversity in tech by putting on awesome free events.

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Vagrant for local and team WordPress Development

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Anthony E. Alvarez

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Giving a talk at WordCamp NYC 2016 on Sunday, July 17th from 12:50. This talk will explain the features, benefits and advantages of Vagrant, why it is so awesome and how you can get up and running quickly. Vagrant is a great piece of software that creates reproducible and portable virtual machines which can be used as web servers for local WordPress testing environments. Vagrant is a tool for managing virtual machines – creating a programmatic way create and configure virtual machines that mimic an application’s production environment.

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Local Ruby on Rails Development using Virtual Machines

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Anthony E. Alvarez

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Developing locally is one of the best things that can happen to web developers. Not only does it let you dispense with upload/download times, you can create as many projects as you want, work with real domains locally and generally speed up everything you do.

The presentation will be given on 2016-07-10 from 10:00 to 11:00 at Rails Camp NYC at the United Nations Secretariat Building, 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017.

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Best Slack Groups for Web Developers

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Anthony E. Alvarez

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When you’re just starting out, the tech world can feel pretty intimidating. That’s why open Slack groups are so ideal for tech beginners: You can get career advice, coding help, and general support without ever leaving your chair. Even better? You’ll meet mentors and friends from all across the world—and I probably don’t need to tell you that having a network can make all the difference.

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NYC Web Development Fellowship

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Anthony E. Alvarez

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The NYC Web Development Fellowship is a 22-week training program designed to equip New Yorkers with the skills necessary to launch careers in web development. This iteration of the Fellowship serves foreign-born New Yorkers who are authorized to work in the United States.

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Graduation Ceremony

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Anthony E. Alvarez

Won a scholarship to attend a 16 weeks intensive program to develop highly sought-after skills in DevOps, cloud and server administration sponsored by Microsoft.