Eben WoodwardDockerizing a React Front EndI’m following the wonderful Stephen Grider Udemy tutoral on Docker and as I go along I thought I would set up a docker container for a…Feb 25, 2019Feb 25, 2019
Eben WoodwardSimple intro to Redis in Node — dynamic and static cachingA recent job interview I had started off as normal. The person on the other side of the table started off asking me a series of questions…Feb 18, 2019Feb 18, 2019
Eben WoodwardApolloApollo is designed to solve a major issue in creating RESTFUL APIS and calling from external ones. There’s always a degree of unneeded…Feb 11, 2019Feb 11, 2019
Eben WoodwardTesting a Node.js with Mocha and ChaiTesting is something I’ve been interested in for a very long while. In fact, the first blog post I ever wrote on Medium was about Rspec…Feb 4, 20191Feb 4, 20191
Eben WoodwardAccessing Nested Data from a Rails APIWhen I first started working on rails projects, I found myself getting frustrated when trying to access nested data on models in my back…Jan 28, 2019Jan 28, 2019
Eben WoodwardGenerics in JavaComing from a Ruby and JavaScript background, teaching myself Java has had its own set of challenges. There’s no such thing as type…Jan 21, 2019Jan 21, 2019
Eben WoodwardHow Hash Tables WorkAs I’ve been deep diving into a self-taught journey of Data Structures and Algorithms, my studies have led me to the Hash Table data…Jan 12, 20192Jan 12, 20192
Eben WoodwardLinking a React App to Rails Active StorageI recently made an app that, in its first iteration, downloaded images to Rails ActiveStorage from a React front end. It took a lot of…Dec 4, 20184Dec 4, 20184
Eben WoodwardPlaying with ElectronI recently presented on the benefits of building native apps using Electron but didn’t have the chance to build an application with it…Oct 16, 2018Oct 16, 2018
Eben WoodwardIntro to PrototypesWhat are prototypes? And what are their uses?Sep 25, 2018Sep 25, 2018