Chad WilkeninCompanyDevElegant PDFs from User-Generated Content in ReactConverting user generated HTML into a PDF has always been a pain. You’re stuck with solutions like wkhtmltopdf, PhantomJS, or Headless…Mar 3, 20201Mar 3, 20201
Chad WilkeninCompanyDevTurbolinks, Stimulus, and React Oh My!CompanyCam’s web app has changed considerably over the years. Starting as a .NET app packed with tons of jQuery plugins 🤮 before moving…Apr 12, 20184Apr 12, 20184
Chad WilkeninCompanyDevSpeedy JSON Endpoints with RailsCompanyCam is a service to store photos by projects for contractors and other industries that work at a lot of different places. Our goal…Jul 26, 20173Jul 26, 20173
Chad WilkenA RegEx Almost Cost Us $250 per MonthTL;DR Don’t use capturing groups in your RegExs unless you actually are going to use the matched content.Jul 15, 2016Jul 15, 2016
Chad WilkenUseful Tips for React NativeWe recently decided to revamp our app using React Native. Other than reading a few articles I was very unfamiliar with React/React Native…Apr 29, 2016Apr 29, 2016
Chad WilkeninCompanyDevDipping Your Toes into React NativeWhen I took over as CTO at CompanyCam we had a universal app written in Xamarin that was horrendous. My first call was to rewrite both apps…Apr 15, 20161Apr 15, 20161
Chad WilkeninCompanyDevGetting Sexy with Core DataRecently I was tasked with updating the way we we’re using Core Data in our application. The app was using the legacy concurrency type of…Oct 29, 20151Oct 29, 20151
Chad WilkeninCompanyDevPostgres JSON Column Type in Rails 4In recent days I have been starting a new project using Rails of course and hit a unique issue. I was needing to store arbitrary data with…Oct 29, 2015Oct 29, 2015
Chad WilkeninCompanyDevThe Great Shift — ASP.NET to RailsSeveral months ago I started as the CTO of CompanyCam, a location based photo management solution for contractors. The founder hired a…Oct 29, 2015Oct 29, 2015