John Gamboa

John Gamboa is married to his beautiful wife of over 20 years and they have five wonderful children together. John Gamboa is an IT Systems Engineer who works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He buys homes in Solano County, Vallejo, Benicia, American Canyon, Napa, Fairfield, Vacaville, Suisun City and surrounding areas. His recreational time is spent with his family, playing basketball or golf, reading, or watching movies.

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John Gamboa Fairfield California - Restaurant Review - Fat Panda Musubi

Downtown Fairfield boasts a diverse culinary scene, offering a plethora of dining options to suit every palate. From cozy cafes serving up artisanal coffee and pastries to elegant restaurants specializing in exquisite cuisine, there’s no shortage of great places to eat in this vibrant district. Whether you’re craving international flavors, local farm-to-table fare, or comforting classic dishes,…

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John Gamboa's Fairfield Vacaville Vallejo business is expanding and he's looking for quality people

Say Bye to Living Paycheck-To-Paycheck Have you figured out the 40-40 plan does not work? Working 40 hours or more a week for 40 years does not lead to financial independence. Too much month left at the end of the money? What do you feel when you hear these words? High Debt. Kids. College funds. Retirement. Inflation. Bills. Emergencies. At some point you’ve got to say to yourself… “There…

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We are looking for people who want to make a career change and build their own business!

Hey! John Gamboa here and we are looking for quality people who have an entrepreneur spirit. If you want to build wealth, build your own business, earn more money and are in the following cities, we want to talk to you. Fairfield, Vallejo, American Canyon, Vacaville, Napa. Are You On The 40-40 Plan? Have you figured out the 40-40 plan does not work? Working 40 hours or more a week for 40 years…

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Fenton's Creamery - not in Oakland, CA

Fenton’s Creamery – not in Oakland, CA

If you’ve ever watched Disney/Pixar’s animated movie Up!, then you’ve undoubtedly noticed the scene where Mr. Fredrickson and Russell are enjoying some ice cream at Fenton’s. That ice cream parlor is actually located in Oakland, CA.

I bet you didn’t know that there are actually two Fenton’s Creamery’s in the Bay Area! If you live or ever venture near the Napa Valley, Vallejo, American Canyon, or…

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Collections: Working with Hashes in Ruby

Collections: Working with Hashes in Ruby

Hashes are data structures that contain key => value pairs and are denoted by curly braces {}

hash = {:key => value}  # old syntax hash = {key: value} #new syntax

They can have multiple key value pairs.

hash = {:key1 => value1, :key2 => value2, :key3 => value3}

To add onto a hash:

hash[:key4] = value4 hash[:key5] = value5 hash   # => {:key1 => value1, :key2 => value2, :key3 => value3, :key4 =>…

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Collections: Working with Arrays in Ruby

Collections: Working with Arrays in Ruby

DISCLAIMER: I’m a noob to programming. This is not a guide or something that you should use to learn how to be a programmer. Some of it might be incorrect. This is just for me, John Gamboa, to record my progress in learning Ruby. Now that’s out of the way, on the to the article.

This is an array for a refresh:

array = [1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5]

Looking for something?

array.first # returns the first…

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Changing Objects Passed Into Methods - Ruby

Changing Objects Passed Into Methods – Ruby

When a variable is passed into a method, it may or may not be changed based on the operation that takes place inside the method.

For example:

def no_mutation(str) str + ", John? end words = "How are you" no_mutation(words) puts words # => "How are you"

Notice how the “+” operator doesn’t change or mutate the “words” variable? That’s because “+” is not destructive. It concatenates “How are…

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Local Variable Scoping Rules in Ruby- Part Two

Local Variable Scoping Rules in Ruby- Part Two

Continuing on the topic of local variable scoping rules, we come to the scoping rules for methods.

Check this code:

a = 5 def some_method   a = 3 end puts a # => 5 (Why 5 and not 3?

When the code executes “puts a”, it displays 5 and not 3. The reason is our 2nd rule.

Rule #2 – Methods create their own scope outside of execution flow.

We’ll visit methods a little more later in the blog.

Blocks…

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Local Variable Scoping Rules in Ruby - Part One

Local Variable Scoping Rules in Ruby – Part One

DISCLAIMER: At the time of this post, I, John Gamboa, was not a Ruby or programming expert. A total noob and I wrote this more to familiarize myself with the rules than anything else. What flows through sticks to you.

A scope of a local variable determines if it is accessible or not. For instance, if you were to code this:

var1 = 1 loop do puts var1 var1 = var1 + 1 break end puts var1

Run…

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First Web Dev Journal Entry

First Web Dev Journal Entry

So for the last few weeks I’ve been learning a web programming language called Ruby at launchschool.com. I decided to delve into web programming because it is a growing industry with lots of demand for skilled developers. With the advent of iPhone and the whole smartphone, mobile, slash always-connected phenomena, demand for web developers and software engineers has skyrocketed and with my…

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Musk frustrated that Kochs spending millions to kill electric cars

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and renewable energy driving force, is clearly frustrated with the most recent designs of the Koch brothers.

Greed

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Researchers say this disagreeable personality trait displayed by Bill Gates as a kid may predict success in adulthood

Around age 11, Bill Gates started to become a problem for his parents. As his intellectual...

Don't feel too badly if you have a rebel child.

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The Kitchen Door - Oxbow Market in downtown Napa, CA

#Napa #OxbowMarket #Food #Restaurant

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Vallejo's Good Day Cafe

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#Vallejo #cafe #food

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Temporary Profiles for New ADUC Users on Different Computers

Here’s a weird one that I just ran into recently on a network we inherited from another IT consulting firm.

A little background on this issue. The environment has a Windows active directory with Windows 7 clients. Several GPOs configured including folder redirection. A new user was just set up and a day later started getting a temporary profile.

Our tech team tried some things that have worked…

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Skype group video calls are now free on iOS and Android

The company rolled out a long-awaited update that adds the feature to Skype's iOS and Android apps.

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Microsoft's Windows 10 roll out has been going well, primarily driven by free upgrades for existing devices. While more than 200 million devices (including Xbox One consoles) are running Windows 10 after just six months, only around 22 million are active in the enterprise or education environments