A Simplified Look at Blockchain and Dapps

Blockchain is a hot topic right now and it’s undeniable. Bitcoin mania has become a mainstream news item and it grows bigger and bigger each day. I’m not a big fan of Bitcoin or Tulips or bubbles, but I think that it is great that Bitcoin has propelled the…

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Nov 27, 2017

Using The Underscore.js Library

I had a live coding interview recently, and there was this line of code at the top of the file that I…

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Nov 19, 2017

Architecture and Computer Programming

I was in Architecture. I completed a Master’s degree and I worked in the industry for 3 years. It was an interesting experience, but I made the transition into Software Engineering. People generally assume there are no similarities between the fields, but I…

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Nov 12, 2017

Breaking Down and Rebuilding Interview Questions

There’s a common coding phrase that we learned about at Flatiron School. This phrase, which is commonly attributed to Kent Beck, goes something like this, “Make it work, make it right, make it fast”. That’s a list of instructions, a life…

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Nov 5, 2017

LocalStorage and You

One of the most powerful tools we’ve encountered over our path through web development history is localStorage. I thought cookies were important, they are and cookies are still in use, but cookies are antiquated, relics of the past web. Storage isn’t a tool that is part of every browser so…

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Sep 27, 2017

Drag and Drop Functionality in React

TLDR: Here’s the demo, drag and drop libraries aren’t necessary. Scroll down for code

Now that we are in React, I thought it would be interesting to move div containers around and create a dynamic website layout. Just being able to move…

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Sep 6, 2017

Bitwise Operators in Javascript

So far the two programming languages we have worked with are Ruby and Javascript. There are many differences between the two, but one thing they have in common is how they deal with logical operators. AND is represented by &&, OR is represented with ||, etc. We are…