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Week 4, Day 6

Today started with some light reading - Eloquent Ruby.  Chapter 1 was about writing code that looks like ruby.  I wasn’t introduced to any new concepts but it was good to have some of the languages conventions drilled into me some more.  The authors of this book are definitely strong believers in writing clean code that doesn’t require comments.  I think ruby is particularly good at achieving this type of code and i really like that because i find having comments all through my code can make it somewhat unreadable and cluttered.

Towards the end of the day i began some design work on an airbnb clone.  I’m thinking of working on this project from here on in and hopefully have something quite substantial to submit for my final WDI project.  I haven’t done terribly much but i’ve created a nice little homepage using bootstrap.

Actually one more thing that is bothering me with bootstrap - the amount of bloated markup that it produces.  This Article pretty much sums up what is getting on my nerves.  Harish Chouhan (author) takes you through his web dev journey and explains why tables and inline styling are no longer used - separation of concerns.  He then points out that Bootstrap is bringing that sort of habit back into our markup to some extent.  Read the article if you’re interested in a solution to bloated markup with Bootstrap...