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Dec 30, 2015

My biggest benefit of open source wasn’t what it was supposed to be

Earlier this year I built my first real Open Source Software (OSS) project. I saw a problem that hadn’t been solved and I decided to fix it. It took some long nights, but eventually I released it. Other people…

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Aug 15, 2014

JavaScript: The George Clooney of Programming Languages

Arriving upon the conclusion to learn to program seems to be an obvious one. The not so obvious conclusion, however, is what exactly you should program and what language you should learn to program. Society enjoys grouping programmers…

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Oct 2, 2013

Categorizing Sockets and Broadcasting to Rooms with Socket.IO

The idea and execution of creating ‘Rooms’ with Socket.IO and only emitting an event to users in that specific room is documented as overly complex, but it doesn’t have to be. This process is actually rather simple if you…

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Dec 14, 2015

React.js Utah Meetup Talk: Introduction to React.js

I spoke at the React.js Utah Meetup in November (2015) giving an introduction to React. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiZI6tx35Es

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Mar 1, 2016

Introducing React.js Program

It’s 3:30AM. I don’t think I’ve been to bed before this time in over a month. I’m ok with this, however. I’ve always loved teaching and for the most part I think people enjoy my teaching as well. I spent two years teaching the people of Los Angeles about Jesus, so teaching…

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Feb 20, 2016

Building User Interfaces with Pure Functions and Function Composition in React.js

This is an excerpt from my React.js Program, an extremely in depth program to learn React.js and the React.js ecosystem. If you’re new to React, I recommend React.js Fundamentals — it’s…

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Jul 7, 2016

Incentivizing Open Source Authors

As developers, Open Source Software (OSS) is foundational to what we do every day. We all have different reasons for contributing, but the reasons we don’t are typically universal. Burn out, lack of resources, lack of appreciation, lack of desire. Naturally, we tend to…

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Apr 15, 2015

React.js Tutorial Pt 3: Architecting React.js Apps with Flux.

Table of Contents:

Pt I: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Apps with React.js.
Pt 1.5: Utilizing Webpack and Babel to build a React.js App
Pt II: Building React.js Apps with Gulp, and Browserify.
Pt…

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Jan 19, 2015

React.js Tutorial Pt 2: Building React Applications with Gulp and Browserify.

Table of Contents:
Pt I: Comprehensive Guide to Building Apps with React.js.
Pt 1.5: Utilizing Webpack and Babel to build a React.js App
Pt II: Building React.js Apps with Gulp, and Browserify.
Pt…

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Aug 10, 2013

Steps to Implementing an Algorithm

In order to understand how to implement an Algorithm, we first need to conceptually understand what an Algorithm is. An Algorithm is a series of steps that you expect will arrive at a specific solution. Writing a program does not equal expressing code, that idea…

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