About this Blog

I spent my time in college dealing with building codes. 

Not the software kind, but the construction and design kind. 

My degree is in Landscape Architecture, from Ball State. 

After college, I realized, as much as I love design, green infrastructure, and ecological systems...
I wasn't getting the tangible results of my designs I had hoped for. In architecture, you might have an amazing design and solution, but that doesn't necessarily mean you will ever see that design built. 

While working what I've come to call "a transition job" in collections, I kept coming up with different ideas for how the systems the company had in place could be optimized, or, in some cases, automated. I knew a friend of mine, Danny Beyrer, was in an academy for some kind of technobabble, so I kept asking him the hard-hitting questions of how these ideas could be built. The more he gave me, the more I was looking into it on my own. Danny was telling me about the academy course he was finishing, with 'The Iron Yard', and encouraged me to get involved if I was loving this stuff as much as I seemed to be.

I'm currently taking a course with Iron Yard, learning back-end engineering with Ruby on Rails. (And loving every minute of it!)
This blog chronicles my progress, struggles, thoughts, and successes along the way. I encourage you to join me in this journey, as it's a strange and wonderful transition...from building codes to building code.

-Ben Doane