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

Programming

Lint Configurations

Copy-paste lint configuration setup for JavaScript and CSS.

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 directory in it. Everything you do related to your project will be done in this directory. repositoryA

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

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

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, but Fixnum#times starts counting at 0. Normally this isn't an issue since n.times is usually

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 functions, and online comments indicated they were essentially interchangeable. When you are getting started, you can think

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 special syntax for booleans Conditions breed! Null Object Pattern - "Active Nothing" Prefer knowing object

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 with a :dexDebug error. ``` com.android.dex.DexIndexOverflowException: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536 Error:Execution

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 limits (often eighty characters, but not always) were a antiquated relic of the past. This was in

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.bar().baz"> <span data-dyna-class="{ hightlight: foo.bar() }"></span> <

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 some JavaScript is inevitable. Now I'm writing almost entirely in JavaScript and pushing the Ruby changes off

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.