The Break Diving Personal & Business Success Blog
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By: Break Diving Staff & Members
Each book listed below under each category has been fully read, vetted, and approved by numerous Break Diving staff members and community members. Anything you see recommended on this page is something you absolutely must read in order to live a happier, more successful, more educated, more meaningful, and more fulfilling life.… Read More
The following is a blog post written by Break Diving member Brighton Dube, in association with the YouTube episode of AngelFish of the same name. After you read this, also view the actual episode on YouTube!
By: Brighton Dube
A Break Diver in South Africa
My name is Brighton.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc
Looking for a really fast and really private web browser that pays you in cryptocurrency just for using it? Â
Here’s the skinny: Brave is founded by Brendan Eich, formerly of Mozilla, and apparently, the guy who created the Javascript computing language. … Read More
by Zaher Talab
A Break Diver in Syria
Life is dramatically changing thanks to technology. One of these changes is now known as an online Massive Open Online Course for distant learning (MOOC). But is this the first time something was invented for distant learning?… Read More
by Chris Oliver
Founder, GoRails.com
When I got my first full-time development job, I thought things were going to be great. I thought I’d learn all kinds of things, see how a real development team worked, and that I’d be building cool features to help our users.… Read More
By: Christoph Wagner, Coding Team (former), Break Diving, Inc.
I’ve been spending some time recently learning a bit of Elixir and Phoenix.
If you’ve never heard of it, Elixir is a new-ish programming language that borrows a lot of syntax from Ruby.… Read More
by Emmilie Estabillo
Backend Development Team, Break Diving, Inc.
I recently attended my first coding hackathon. It was a one day, 10am-5pm event in New York City and the theme was to create for social good. It was, least to say, a valuable learning experience. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
and… Ruby on Rails web developer
Before I started Break Diving, I created a couple app on my own. Well, almost on my own.
You can see one of them at www.mymusic.bio. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME, EMT
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
For you coders out there who are hosting your dynamic sites on Heroku, here are some helpful tips that you will likely use over and over that you may find helpful to have here in a central place.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder & Exec. Dir., Break Diving, Inc.
If you’re a rails user, awesome news: there’s an amazing gem that takes less than 5 minutes to install, and voila, you’ve got a beautiful admin backend to handle all of your users. … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA, LLM, ME
Founder and Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
and… Ruby on Rails web developer
This is a short post to help you coders remember all of the parts required when adding a new page using an MVC framework.… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA
Founder & Exec. Dir., Break Diving, Inc.
and… Ruby on Rails Developer
What follows is a list of Ruby on Rails resources, which I will update from time to time as I find worthy additions. Â … Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
Well, I am officially a coder now! Â I can actually officially say it without any crack in my voice!
I graduated from the Firehose program in June of 2017 and since then, have already launched my first app, and am hard at work at my second!… Read More
by Dr. Monroe Mann, PhD, Esq, MBA
Founder & Executive Director, Break Diving, Inc.
It was sometime back in the 1980s. My family got two cool digital things for Christmas during that decade — though I suppose back then, they were two cool analog things, haha!… Read More