Tom Leskin



Journalist turned developer.

Recent Posts

  • November 09, 2015

    Ember reading materials, including a free book

    Learning a new concept or even a JavaScript framework can be hard. It’s even harder if the documentation isn’t that beginner friendly. Although that isn’t really the case with Ember, in my opinion, I still enjoy finding a good programming book to ...

  • November 06, 2015

    Finding records with Ember Data

    One of the concepts I didn’t completely understand when initially learning Emberwere the different methods that can be called on models to retrieve records fromthe Ember Data store.My initial apps only used the find method, which provides records ...

  • November 03, 2015

    Building ambitious Ember apps is easy with Ember CLI

    Coming from the world of Ruby and Rails, learning JavaScript seemed a dauntingtask, especially when it came to learning things like this or what it meansto bind. Luckily, I had a great JavaScript instructor who was especially helpful when I decide...

  • September 08, 2015

    Learning how to learn, hacking at Pebble Rocks Boulder

    If someone had asked me seven months ago what I thought the most valuable thing wasthat I’d be learning at the Turing School of Software & Design, I probably would have answered either Ruby, Rails or Test Driven Development. With my cohort 150...

  • June 26, 2015

    Exploring the MEAN Stack

    One of the things that I love about Turing is the fact that the program and its instructors try to turn us into extremely diverse developers. One way they do that is by requiring us to do a Lightning Talk once a module after you complete Module 1....