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 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 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 idea of what's available. The web
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) (meetup) Moe Long - Keynote JavaScript testing sucks. Mocha and Jasmine are okay-ish. Dan Wilson - Building Native With Angular NativeScript and npm install nativescript Write truly native apps with JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular. tns create - Telerik NativeScript CLI tool. This
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 (meetup) History Rails 1 Rails 2 Tiobe language popularity ranking EnvyLabs "commercials" They did a whole series of "Rails Versus xxx", which might be hard to find now. Here's Rails Versus PHP _why the
Triangle.js Triangle.js Notes - React With Typescript React With Typescript 2016-11-16 with Doug Miller (meetup) (slides) Static Typing Options For JavaScript TypeScript - Microsoft flow - Facebook Advantages And Disadvantages pros better tooling find errors earlier ramp up new team members faster refactor without anxiety faster development time cons project setup is more tedious typings certain flows
Notes Triangle Front End Notes - CSS Layout Techniques CSS Layout Techniques 2016-11-03 by Bermon Painter (Meetup) (Twitter) 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 .clearfix. This improved with psuedo-selectors, but was still not ideal. Flexbox & Grid (Not
JavaScript Triangle Modern Web - Variety Show Modern Web Variety Show 2016-10-24 by Tracy Lee (Meetup) (Twitter) The inaugural meeting in the Triangle featured free food and several excellent speakers. MetLife hosted. Simon MacDonald - What's New With Apache Cordova/PhoneGap (Twitter) (slides) PhoneGap is a polyfill, and the ultimate purpose of PhoneGap is to cease to
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 Redux, although I plan to
Ruby Triangle.rb Notes - Ten Gems To Know About Ten Gems To Know About 2016-07-12 by Brandon Mathis (Meetup) pry pry-byebug (also byebug) awesome_print quiet_assets faker letter_opener rubocop brakeman taperole flamegraph pry Edit ~/.ircrb to automatically use pry instead of irb. (Or just type pry into the terminal instead of irb.) awesome_print Colorizes Ruby's built-in
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, but that is complete overkill, at least for my current project. I'm looking for something that feels lightweight and has decent support. I've
JavaScript JavaScript Prototype Functions AKA "instance methods"! Constructor functions (any function you call with new) in JavaScript have a prototype property, which you can decorate with functions and other arbitrary values. When instantiating an object, these functions become instance methods. When calling a "method" (for instance foo.bar()), JavaScript will
Node npm And Global Packages Using a Node module that provides an CLI presents some challenges, especially to newcomers. Below is a discussion of some approaches and some pros/cons. Global Only Just install globally and don't worry about local installs. It will be easy to run the commands (no prefixes!), but you'll have to
