Building an Express/Node.js App with Angular 2 and the Twitter API

Welcome to my first technical blog post during my Cyrus Innovation Apprenticeship!

When deciding what to focus on for my first explanation of a technical topic, I determined that I wanted to…

A Git workflow for code experiments

Have you ever been developing a feature and hit a fork in the road where there are multiple ways…

A Beginner’s Adventure with RxJS: Part I

Something that has been all the rage lately in the programming world is a paradigm known…

Nil and Presence in Ruby on Rails

One of the things I love about Ruby is nil. It can represent nothing and, since every expression in…

Declarative Programming in Ruby

I’ve been programming in Ruby for almost two years now, and sometimes I forget how hard it was for me to wrap my head around the Ruby approach to solving problems. Finally, Tyler Mcginnis has given me the vocabulary to describe the paradigm shift I experienced — Imperative…

Ruby’s String#delete and Boolean Algebra

How can learning about the String#delete method in Ruby help us understand Boolean Algebra?

It starts with a misuse of gsub

Unit Testing with Jasmine: An Introduction

In this post I’ll discuss getting started with unit testing with Jasmine, including how to set up tests for an Angular 2 application. I’ll be using a sample app — an Express app that uses Angular 2 for the client-side code and interacts with the Twitter…

Nine Interesting Tidbits About Dates In Ruby

Note: This article sat in my drafts folder for a long time. I recently had to look…