Rust for Ruby Developers
I've written Ruby for most of my career and Rails still pays the bills. But these days a lot of my time goes into SolRengine, and Solana programs a...
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Declining Price Token Sales with Anchor - Building a Dutch Auction on Solana
After building a hello world, a price oracle, and a piggy bank, this exercise introduces the two concepts the piggy bank post promised: PDAs (Progr...
Time-Locked SOL Savings with Anchor - Building a Piggy Bank on Solana
After building a hello world and a price oracle, this exercise brings together several Solana concepts: time-based logic, SOL transfers via CPI, di...
Building a Price Oracle on Solana with Anchor
After building a Hello World program, the next step is managing real state on-chain. A price oracle is a great exercise for this: it needs to creat...
Your First Anchor Program on Solana - Hello World
After spending years building web applications with Rails, I decided to go deeper into Solana development. Not just using wallets and tokens — actu...
A Zero Setup Docker-based Development Environment for Learning Rust with Rustlings
Learning a new programming language often comes with an unexpected challenge: setting up the development environment. Before you can even write you...