Published inDev Genius·Jun 21, 2020Using custom CSS VariablesIf you’ve used any styling library or framework like Bootstrap or Semantic UI, you’ll have used their many built-in shortcuts for adding consistent styling quickly to your project. These frameworks have already done most of the heavy lifting, and allow you to get up and running really fast — but…CSS2 min readCSS2 min read
Published inWeekly Webtips·Jun 14, 2020Getting To Know JavaScript Built-In Methods — ObjectsThis is the fourth post in my series about JavaScript’s handy built-in methods for different data types (links to the rest of the series are at the bottom of this post). There are a ton of handy ready-made methods that can be used to manipulate data, and I’ll be explaining…JavaScript3 min readJavaScript3 min read
Published inThe Startup·Jun 6, 2020Using Git — how to add a repo to track an existing projectThere are a couple of options for setting up git to track projects — we can set up the repo first on GitHub, fork or clone it, open up the repo on our local computer then set up the project from inside our local copy. However, if you’re anything like…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published inThe Startup·May 30, 2020Using Git — how to go back to a previous commitGit & GitHub are powerful tools which allow us to track all our changes to our projects and, when we inevitably do something that breaks them, go back to a previous working state. We are all aware of this time-reversing magic, but not necessarily how to do it! Here’s a…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
May 23, 2020Getting To Know JavaScript Built-In Methods — ArraysThis is the third post in my series about JavaScript’s handy built-in methods for different data types (links to the rest of the series are at the bottom of this post). …JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
May 14, 2020Getting To Know JavaScript Built-In Methods — Numbers & MathThis is the second post in my series about JavaScript’s built-in methods for different data types. There are a ton of handy ready-made methods which can be used to manipulate data, and I’ll be explaining some of the most useful ones. You can see my first post about String methods…JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
May 4, 2020Getting to Know JavaScript Built-In Methods — StringsThis is the first in a series of posts I’ll be writing about JavaScript’s built-in methods for various data types. There are a ton of handy ready-made methods which can be used to manipulate data, and I’ll be explaining some of the most useful ones here. …JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
Feb 26, 2020Making your web app interactive with JavaScript event listenersWhen starting out building websites the first thing you’ll likely do is learn some HTML — without the bones of the site you won’t have anything to work with. Then you’ll move on to making it pretty with some CSS. You can make a pretty nice looking web page using…JavaScript5 min readJavaScript5 min read
Jan 20, 2020A beginner’s guide to MVCWhen you start learning about designing applications, you’ll probably come across the term MVC pretty early on. Certainly for my software engineering classmates and I, once we had got to grips with building ruby methods and interacting with databases, lesson 1 on building functional apps was on MVC. What does it mean? MVC is…Coding5 min readCoding5 min read
Jan 3, 2020Why pry is your best friend in rubyI’m pretty early in my career as a developer. Three weeks into the Software Engineering bootcamp at Flatiron School to be exact — and to say it has been a steep learning curve would be a hell of an understatement. …Ruby7 min readRuby7 min read
