reflections Why Web Dev? A few years back, someone asked me why I liked web development. It took me a few years to explain my answer.
javascript Why the heck did I bother making fluent-sort? I made a library called fluent-sort, and I really like it, even though it's a little useless. As developers, self-expression is important, and sometimes that's enough.
javascript Making use of yield in JavaScript A look into the new yield keyword in JavaScript, with a very basic Fibonacci sequence example.
javascript Introduction to Redux Redux is an application state library for JavaScript, often used with React applications.
Keeping your repository clean with git hooks Different developers have different styles, which can clash in a collaborate development environment. A growing trend amongst developers is to leverage their version control systems to block actions from affecting team members unless
programming concepts The Fundamentals of Webhooks A webhook is a route created on one application with the expectation that data will be sent to that route periodically from another application. For a concrete example, let us talk about two
programming concepts Adding Two-factor Authentication to an Express App Concept Explanation of Easy Two Factor Authentication
Client-side searching a large data set using tries Understanding data structures is an important part of being a web developer when non-trivial problems crop up. What works with 50 entries may not work with 50,000 entries.
javascript Handling an Array of Promises A very common situation is having to make many asynchronous calls. There are two ways that we can wait for those to happen: All at once / without concern for order In the order
javascript Closing in on closure There is a familiar tenet in programming. When the function has completed running, the variables are disposed. This is pretty close to our hearts as programmers. So naturally, JavaScript comes in shakes things
javascript Understanding Functional Scope In JavaScript, functions determine the scope of a variable, leading to some unexpected scenarios that developers can come across while transitioning from block scope languages. First off, there's the initial question of what
Introducing worker-to-promise From time to time, I make a thing and I like it. Recently, I created a library that is quite unoriginally named Worker-to-Promise, which allows a developer to call methods on a Web
philosophy in technology Cheesecake, Printers, and Morality One night, I wanted a slice of cheesecake. This would normally be no real issue; for many years prior in my life, I would have simply walked to the grocery store, picked out
javascript Loops, Scope, and Asynchronous Code in JavaScript Once upon a time, there was a web page. It was a tiny web page, one of many like itself, but even the tiniest web page is special and so it was in
Browsers, Mobile, and Metro: a year and a half of dabbling in cross-platform coding Eighteen months ago, I started a year long project to make a guided tour mobile application for group’s senior design class. My group and I, busy with job applications and other such
asp.net Using IObservable to make your API SignalR and REST ready A few weeks ago I was put in charge with overhauling an API to allow it to be accessed over REST and SignalR. To avoid unreadable and awful code, I ended up researching
angularjs Integrating AngularJS and SignalR: The Connection Provider When I began the migration of FunnelFire’s frontend application from Knockout to AngularJS, I was majorly lacking in code organizational practice. Knockout, an amazing and fast framework for data binding with an
reflections Dreams of Borboya Disclaimer: originally published on Medium, September 29, 2014. When I was growing up, I wanted to be a little bit of everything. If you’re reading this, I’m sure you did, too.
the naivety of youth Celebrating the Mundane Disclaimer: originally published on Medium, September 30, 2013. I always hear people talk about those special, amazing, once in a lifetime moments. I hear about saying “I do”, about getting that promotion, about