If you see the following error syntax highlighting in VS Code for your Typescript and React app:
Cannot use JSX unless the ‘ — jsx’ flag is provided.ts(17004)
Today I learned one of the most useful things about JS. So it’s crazy but I didn’t know that when a variable is assigned to a value it’s behavior is different. For primitive data types like strings, numbers and booleans when a variable is assigned a value that value is…
So I’m getting ready to start Hack Reactor’s bootcamp and I figured I’d get my machine re-vitalized. Today I performed a clean installation of macOS and started everything from scratch. This means I also need to set up my dev environment. Iv’e chosen to scrap my old…
In preparation for Hack Reactor I have been practicing my typing speed at typeracer.com . At the moment my WPM score is 51. That is not a bad score but it definitely needs to get to above 60. Considering typeracer.com only test regular text and not programming. This means that my programming…
So I was reviewing some of the basics of ruby to fill in holes in my understanding. Something I liked a ton was the scoping of variables in ruby.
There are variable types for 4 scopes:
$globalVar@@classVar@instanceVarlocalVar
I have been refactoring my bookmark application Davemarks to get it working to my liking. Yesterday I uploaded about 1000 bookmarks compiled in CSV format from various sources. When I tried to add new ones after the import I couldn’t…
So you can’t get @Mailgun to accept incoming emails and forward them to your heroku app? It took me a couple of hours to figure this out. I was trying to send emails to my app through Mailgun to create new bookmark entries in my Davemarks app…
I wanted to change the name of one of my apps and thought it was going to be difficult. It’s not that hard. I stumbled upon a blog post by @Mark H. Nichols and where he explains how to do it step by step.
Today I am starting the Computer Science portion of the Software Engineer Program at Bloc. I am pretty excited to start working on the deeper side of software engineering. The first chapter covers basic math topics such as permutations and combinations. I hadn’t seen this material since junior high so its a nice refresher.
It had been a long while since I touched any Ruby code. For the past 6 months I had been completely focused on Javascript (vanilla, jQuery, Angular, Firebase). Now its time to get my Ruby shirt on. When I first started on Ruby this week again it took a while for me to get used to it. Maybe 1 hour and…