Poetry Christmas Bells > I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, and mild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth,
Poetry A Stroke Of Inspiration I was recently inspired to write my wife a poem. I love you Cuttlefish!
git Graphical Git Tools Although I believe developers should learn git on the command line, graphical tools can be useful, especially for inspecting history. Last night a friend showed me a new one (below), so I thought I would list my favorites in this space.
Programming Featured Code Comments And When To Use Them tl;dr: Don't. Basically any information you might want to put in a code comment is better communicated somewhere else. Please read if you don't believe me.
Work New Job I started a new job a few weeks ago! I am now a Senior Developer at a prominent advertising agency. Photo by Thomas Quaritsch on Unsplash
Work Featured Parting Thoughts Yesterday was my last day for my NetApp contract. After saying goodbye to the team on Slack, one of my coworkers responded with the quote below.
git Transfer Git Branch Across Repos Quick guide for moving a commits in a git branch to a separate repository.
Programming Destructure First And Last Element Of Array Extracting the first and last items in a JavaScript array should be easier.
Web Development Web Development Starter Pack Getting started with web development is fun and exciting, but also frustrating, since you don't know what you don't know. Below are some links to many useful resources. Don't feel like you need to thoroughly explore each link; it is enough to get an
Programming A Gentle Introduction To Using Git A Gentle Introduction To Using Git Terminology working directoryThis is the top-level directory (folder) that contains your project files. Once you initialize git (git init), your working directory will have a new .git directory in it. Everything you do related to your project will be done in this directory.repositoryA
Modern Web Modern Web Notes Modern Web Variety Show 2017-01-24 by Tracy Lee (twitter [https://twitter.com/ladyleet]) (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/trianglemodernweb/events/235966025/]) Moe Long - Keynote JavaScript testing sucks. Mocha and Jasmine are okay-ish. Dan Wilson - Building Native With Angular NativeScript [https://www.nativescript.org/] and npm install nativescript Write
Ruby Triangle.rb Notes - Things To Look Out For In Rails 5 Things To Look Out For In Rails 5 2017-01-10 with Brandon Mathis [http://brandonmathis.me/] (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/236355556/]) History Rails 1 Rails 2 * Tiobe language popularity ranking [http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/] * EnvyLabs "commercials" * They did a whole series of "Rails Versus
Triangle.js Triangle.js Notes - React With Typescript React With Typescript 2016-11-16 with Doug Miller [http://www.douglasallenmiller.com/] (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Triangle-JavaScript/events/235486369/]) (slides [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12MI2CzetTwN5bx-Tq2t5UVUZCiug8OpFJQvUAJT3kpg] ) Static Typing Options For JavaScript * TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] - Microsoft * flow [https://flowtype.org/] - Facebook Advantages And Disadvantages pros * better
Notes Triangle Front End Notes - CSS Layout Techniques CSS Layout Techniques 2016-11-03 by Bermon Painter [http://bermonpainter.com/] (Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Triangle-Front-End-Developers/events/234560049/]) ( Twitter [https://twitter.com/bermonpainter]) Hardest problem on web... Horizontally and vertically centered box. body { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } .box { height: 100px; width: 100px; } Previous best solution was floats with
JavaScript Triangle Modern Web - Variety Show Modern Web [http://www.modern-web.org/] Variety Show 2016-10-24 by Tracy Lee [https://www.thisdotmedia.com/] (Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/trianglemodernweb/events/234226919/]) (Twitter [https://twitter.com/ladyleet]) The inaugural meeting in the Triangle featured free food and several excellent speakers. MetLife [https://www.metlife.com/] hosted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon
JavaScript Thought On React And Redux Note: This post is in response to a client asking why a single state store is preferable to a more object-oriented approach with multiple objects, each managing its own state. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First, a caveat: I don't have much hands-on experience with React, and I've never used
Ruby Triangle.rb Notes - Ten Gems To Know About Ten Gems To Know About 2016-07-12 by Brandon Mathis [http://brandonmathis.me/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/]) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. pry [https://rubygems.org/gems/pry] 1. pry-byebug [https://rubygems.org/gems/pry-byebug] (also byebug [https://rubygems.org/gems/byebug]) 2. awesome_print [https://rubygems.org/gems/awesome_
JavaScript Thoughts On Setting Up A Greenfield Node Project Basic Setup The choice is between a "traditional" server-side rendering setup or and API server with client-side rendering. I'm aware of full-stack frameworks like Meteor [https://www.meteor.com/], but that is complete overkill, at least for my current project. I'm looking for something
