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Apr 14, 2022

Radical Teamwork

The past few months of working solo as a freelance engineer, specializing in frontend development has given me a new appreciation of an old concept; radical teamwork. #radicalteamwork Perhaps you found yourself in this situation. Your employer, group manager, faith leader or teacher places you in a group for study…

Agile Methodology

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Radical Teamwork
Radical Teamwork
Agile Methodology

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Jun 28, 2021

Functions of a Higher Order

I think the best part of JavaScript is that Functions are First Class Objects like other Functional Programming Languages. Like other objects, and primitives, you can pass Functions into other functions, into objects and arrays, and get really into amazing pipelines. One of these pipelines that I’ve taken a liking…

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Jun 10, 2021

The Final Project

Who’d a thunk? I suppose it is a bit strange of me to get giddy over state management; but you know what, I'm just gonna lean into it hard! I love Redux! …

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May 10, 2021

JS Projects and Databases

Probably one of the first languages I’ve been exposed to, I’ve finally had the opportunity to dive into JavaScript programming. JS is a very dynamic language, with its core in object prototypes; making it a very flexible (but sometimes confusing) language to work with. …

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Mar 27, 2021

Magic Macros — Has_Many and Self Referential Associations

Sometimes, as you’re developing a ruby on rails application, you can get lost in the magic that happens behind the scenes. Well, I’d like to unveil one wizard behind the curtain, the has_many macro, to hopefully be able to bend its wizard powers to our whims. Understanding the magic of…

Ruby

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Magic Macros — Has_Many and Self Referential Associations
Magic Macros — Has_Many and Self Referential Associations
Ruby

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Mar 8, 2021

The Helper

Sinatra is impressive, as far as impressive can be when compared with a CLI application. Understanding the MVC model helps bring distant elements, html, database, ruby and the web, together into a cohesive and joined element. …

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Feb 8, 2021

The art of Abstraction

Probably one of the coolest parts of coding is the art of abstraction, the ability to write one thing to say many things. Part of my training in Flatiron involved creating a Ruby CLI Application. …

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Jan 23, 2021

Why I Decided to Become a Software Developer

I hated math. Not that I was particularly bad at getting the right answer, mind you, but it was so abstract, so arbitrary. Each problem as boring and as meaningless as the last, with the only change being the complexity and its inherit tediousness. Most of my life this was…

Software Development

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Software Development

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