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
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.
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
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 "
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:
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
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
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,
Ruby Fun With Ruby Enumerators Yesterday evening for fun I decided to write a factorial method in Ruby. My first attempt looked like this. 5.times.inject(&:*) This is a really elegant solution, and it almost works,
Programming Functions Versus Methods When I first started programming, I remember encountering functions and methods. I was familiar with functions from high school algebra, but I had no idea what a method was. They looked similar to
Programming Triangle.rb Notes - Nothing Is Something http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/ 2015-08-11 by Sandi Metz (video of the same talk at RailsConf) Smalltalk infected Condition adverse Message sending Abstraction seeking Bunch of code slides here... Ruby has
Programming Java Makes It Safe To Assume The Worst Today I started getting strange errors whenever I added a dependency to our Android app. The dependencies installed without issue and the project would even build. However attempting to run the project failed
Programming Line Limits (In response to http://www.aaron-gray.com/line-limits/. Aaron is a great guy; let the reader visit his blog and learn from his wisdom.) Yesterday after work I said that hard character line
Programming Declaratively toggle class names <div data-dyna-context="window.app" data-dyna-as="foo"> <span data-dyna-class="{ hightlight: this.bar(), colors: length > 1 }"></span> <div data-dyna-context="foo.
Programming AngularJS Thoughts I've been working on my first AngularJS project since October. It has some strangeness, but on the whole I am impressed. Pros Single language. I normally work with Ruby on Rails, which means
Programming Node Resources I haven't really keep this page updated, so take these links with a grain of salt so to speak. In fact this page should really be viewed as a historic document, and *not* as a useful reference.
