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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 03, 2014

Intensive code schools are gaining notoriety among people interested in launching programming careers as well as the tech companies who are hungry to hire talent. The Iron Yard, a nationally-renowned code school who opened Atlanta offices in March, opens its doors to the public after each set of three month courses to showcase just what it is their students are building behind those glowing computer screens. On June 20th, they welcomed their first graduating class into the developer community with a day of demonstrations and presentationsand the projects proved as varied as the participants in their courses.

What type of student fits the mold at an immersive programming school? The Iron Yard aims to change the landscape of education in technology, beginning by opening their courses to candidates from all walks of life. From mid-career financial gurus to creative-types, the common vein that runs true at The Iron Yard is a passion for learning and a propensity for problem solving. With no coding experience required, how far could a three-month course take students? Far enough to launch a career, get a job, or start a company. Students spend the final two weeks of their project-based curriculum building a robust application for over 80 hours each week, tackling everything from concept to deployment. That capstone project serves as proof that they are ready to work as a professional and solve programming problems for companies and clients.

This month The Iron Yard graduated Mobile Engineering and Ruby on Rails Engineering classes at ThoughtWorks in Midtown. The event was open to the public, local hiring partners, and recruiters. The presentation of final projects was exciting and full of variety. Some students took a playful approach to everyday needs: a socially integrated iOS app for barbecue enthusiasts, an application that mashes up famous love letters to send to loved ones, and a resource for generating cocktails based on current home inventory, to name a few. Others entered the education space, creating platforms for educating and training students of all ages. With the vast developer talent void prevalent in Atlanta, the presentations gave a hopeful glimpse into the future of tech in the growing Southeastern city.

Developers, developers-in-training, and representatives from area corporations, including State Farm, were present to see the culmination of twelve weeks of intensive programming. Graduates will go on to enter the industry as developers in back-end, front-end, and mobile technologies, and are currently interviewing for roles that will fill the wide gap we face in Atlantas tech industry.

Interested in learning to code or hiring development talent? Check out theironyard.com to find out more, and mingle with the graduates themselves at their next Demo Day.

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When Ruth and Hurst Mauldin downsized to Sedgefield in 1999, there was little but red dirt in their small back yard.

But the veteran gardeners looked past the red dirt and envisioned a lush, green sanctuary. In fact, Ruth says her garden has become a place she goes to contemplate, to celebrate and to praise.

The Mauldins, both retired educators, raised two daughters in a Tudor home in Myers Park one with a big backyard and a garden that Ruth describes as down yonder. When they decided to move to a one-story house 15 years ago, Ruth told her Realtor, I just need a place with a front and back yard so I can dig.

And as hard as it was to leave their mature garden behind, the couple love having their plants and flowers within easy reach. Its all just out the back door and visible from every window in the house.

And its not as if they left the old Myers Park garden entirely. Much of it came with them hostas, Lenten roses, azaleas, primrose, King Alfred daffodils and some liriope (commonly known as monkey grass) their old friends, Jean and Joe Vance, had given the young newlyweds in Birmingham in 1965.

Ruth says the garden is still a work in progress. The Mauldins have taken on the task little by little, and their garden continues to evolve each year and with each season.

Working in the garden is therapeutic and almost spiritual for the Mauldins, who love their church (St. Andrews United Methodist), take care of the earth and try not to harm any of its creatures.

They occasionally put out moth balls (the smell is supposed to be a repellent) for the critters that feast on their plants, but mostly they peacefully coexist with bunnies and chipmunks. Slugs are the one pest they wont abide.

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The couple has been known to go to extreme lengths for a plant they covet. Hurst confesses to a caper that involved digging up a Siberian iris in an abandoned area and transplanting it in their yard. It was just so gorgeous, says Ruth.

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A controversial winery project in Yountville won narrow approval from county planners on Wednesday after a contentious public hearing and some public wavering by a key planning commission member.

The hearing on the 100,000-gallon winery project proposed to be built on Yountville Hill unfolded much like a heavyweight boxing match proponents trading arguments with the developers, but neither side scoring a decisive knockout.

That initially left the commissioners split at the end of a marathon five-hour meeting before an overflow crowd, with Commissioners Matt Pope and Terry Scott saying they opposed the project because its production was too great and its marketing plan too aggressive for a 10.9-acre parcel off of Highway 29 and south of Yount Mill Road.

Commissioners Bob Fiddaman and Mike Basayne said they were in favor, and Commissioner Heather Phillips recused herself due to a conflict of interest, leaving a two-two deadlock and spelling defeat for the winery. Before the commission could vote formally, however, Eric Sklar, developer of the proposed Yountville Hill Winery, asked for a two-week delay to possibly revise the project and win over votes.

After a brief recess to discuss the delay, the commissioners returned and Pope said he would change his vote. By a 3-1 margin, with Scott opposed, the commission voted to approve the projects use permit to the stunned silence of the roughly 50 people left in attendance, almost all of them opposing the winery.

Pope prefaced his initial comments opposing Yountville Hill by saying he was deeply torn about the project, believing some of the vintners who wrote letters opposing it were saying I got mine, now too bad for you. He also believed that by making it difficult and prohibitively expensive for winery developers, the county was narrowing the pool of new winery owners to large corporations with the deep pockets to navigate the process.

Still, he said he was swayed by the arguments that Yountville Hill could be a precedent-setting decision for Napa Valley, in essence giving a green light for developers to pursue large-production projects that need ample tasting room traffic, nestled into narrow parcels in the hillsides.

Pope said comments from commission Chairman Bob Fiddaman ultimately changed his mind, as Fiddaman argued that the commissioners were bound by the countys existing interpretations of the laws and therefore had to approve the winery.

This was the most ambivalent Ive ever been, Pope said shortly before changing his vote. I am in support of this project and that is my decision.

Lester Hardy, an attorney working with Sklar on the project, said after the hearing that Pope changing his vote reflected him keeping an open mind about Yountville Hill, and shows that the hearing process with each side exchanging arguments and evidence ultimately works.

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By Erin Jordan, The Gazette

Predicting floods is a complicated business involving not just rainfall, but also geometry of river channels, character of hill slopes and mathematical formulas.

Boiled down, the data can help Iowans know when to start sandbagging or evacuate before high water.

For the general public, what really matters is just how high the river can get, said Witold Krajewski, director of the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa.

The Army Corps of Engineers predicted Wednesday morning the Coralville Lake would top the spillway next week, but later in the day scaled back the numbers slightly. Small revisions like this are constant because rain upstream can affect the whole system.

The predictions start with knowing the landscape in and around waterways.

Digital topographic maps from the U.S. Geological Survey show elevation points for every 100 yards across the country, Krajewski said. Scientists in Iowa also have access to LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging technology, that involves laser readings from planes that fly over the landscape.

Elevation maps allow scientists to figure out the locations of river channels and basin boundaries.

Also important to flood predictions is the character of the hill slopes that run into waterways, Krajewski said. A grassy field will absorb more water than a paved parking lot.

These base numbers go into computer models that help scientists understand how different rainfall amounts will affect the region.

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Homepolish skips commissions and product markups and instead charges customers a flat fee for a one-hour consultation at the client's home.

Junior designers cost $50 and senior designers cost $80 for the one-hour consultation. If customers choose to move forward, they continue working with their designer for an hourly fee. The rate for junior designers is $100/hour and senior designers are $130/hour. Both require a minimum of five hours.

During the segment, panelist Ryan Serhant asked how the founders planned to incentivize talented designers with the Homepolish model while the rest of the market makes the majority of its income on markups.

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"Homepolish gives emerging designers a platform and a way to really get their name out there. For the more established designers, for our price points and charging an hourly rate, it actually is competitive in the market," Santos responded.

The start-up has 20 employees in house and clients work with more than 130 designers nationwide, including its co-founder and trained interior designer, Santos.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2014, by Spencer Peterson

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In creating himself a tropical getaway in the Bahamas, interior designer Tom Scheerer overhauled a pair of dilapidated structures; a nunnery that he convert into his main house, and an 1800s cottage that became his guest house. The latter is known as the Cash Box, as it used to be the home of Mary Cash, who Remodelista describes as one of the "matriarchs" of Harbour Island, a designer-studded locale where the prominent mode of transportation is the golf cart and one's neighbors include the likes of Bill Gates and Diane von Furstenberg. Remodelista describes Scheerer's approach to remodels as akin to a preservationist's, and given the his original training as an architect at Cooper Union, it comes as no surprise that he opted to highlight historic features rather than gut-renovate them.

Scheerer, who was once described in T Magazine as "interior design's most humble and nuanced talent of authentic blue-blood gentility," rolled back the Cash Box's 1940s modernization by revealing its coral stone hearth and "keeping the mod consstove and fridgeout of sight." He also covered the cement floor in Cuban tiles, which he chose because they're found in "most of the oldest houses" in the area.

Scheerer picked the attic (pictured above) for his "master suite," painting over the rough pine floor with "many, many coats of shiny white" that help it bounce light around the room. According to Mimi Read, the author of Tom Scheerer Decorates, the seafoam green walls are "a nod to a Harbour Island old wives' tale about the wasp-repellent properties of the color green." She also notes that Scheerer's practical streak is the key to his remodeling projects: "'Don't make too much trouble for yourself' is one of his mottos. 'Live life now, rather than after a torturous renovation.'"

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