In this short tutorial I will show you how to set up a local domain and an alias to shorten the typical 'rails s' command.

Project week again! This time around it is working with the Sinatra framework. For this project, I decided to begin working on an application for my girlfriend's company, Save Your Ocean. So, I'm not just doing this project to pass, I can actually use it for something. Double win!

This week has been project week for my bootcamp cohort. For our assignment we are to build a Ruby CLI Gem using Nokogiri to scrape HTML or an API.

So, I've just discovered [Codewars](https://www.codewars.com/r/A8eU4Q). Codewars is a unique website where you solve problems and rank up your profile for doing so. There is a large selection of languages available, so I'm sure they have something you'd be interested in.

The first mile of the software engineering bootcamp at Flatiron School introduces a lot of basic programming concepts that are important to learn. Luckily, I do have some experience with these, so I'm sure it came a bit easier to me than to others.

As some of you know, I have enrolled in Flatiron School's software engineering full-time program. One of our first assignments in this program is to write about why we decided to pursue software engineering.