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Dustin Coates

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Dustin Coates is from small-town Texas, lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Favorite foods are breakfast tacos, chicken fried steak, and shawarma—not necessarily in that order. He enjoys JavaScript, Ruby, and Rails. In a past life, he was a full-time SEO and Analytics specialist. Find more code on github.

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Networking events are always tough. Either you don't know anyone and don't know who to talk to, or you're blatantly glancing at name tags all night. I decided there was a better way. Meetster allows attendees to check in and displays their photo and information on a second screen. Best part? No Flash necessary. Developed with Zahra Jabini.
  • Ruby/Rails
  • Gems Used:
    • Fog
    • JSON
    • Pry Rails
    • Rails Footnotes
    • Annotate
    • Carrierwave
    • BCrypt
    • RMagick
  • jQuery
  • HTML/CSS
A mock dating website for hipsters. To connect with a user, you must answer one of their questions correctly. Don't get it right? Too bad, there's no second chances. Developed as part of a group of five at General Assembly.
  • Ruby/Rails
  • Gems Used:
    • Fog
    • PG
    • Pry Rails
    • Rails Footnotes
    • Annotate
    • Carrierwave
    • BCrypt
    • RMagick
  • jQuery
  • Foundation
  • HTML/CSS
Have a giant wrench you no longer want? Trade it for a giant pencil (or anything else) at Barterville. Developed as part of a group of two at General Assembly.
  • Ruby/Rails
  • Gems Used:
    • Fog
    • PG
    • Pry Rails
    • Rails Footnotes
    • Ipsum
    • Annotate
    • Carrierwave
    • BCrypt
    • RMagick
    • AWS SES
    • Kaminari
  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • HTML/CSS
A simple lorem ipsum generator. Provided a number of words to use and the actual words themselves, it will return sentences of varying word-length and paragraphs of varying sentence-length.
  • JavaScript
Takes an image and scrambles it in an arbitrary number of pieces before reassembling it. Uses core JavaScript only.
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS
A nostalgia-driven memory game inspired by Super Mario Bros. 3.
  • jQuery
  • HTML/CSS
I didn't like retirement calculators not taking into account inflation or future raises in pay so I built the retirement calculator I wanted.
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS

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