React Components and Global StateThere’s a ton of good React documentation out there. If you have a question about the framework, chances are somebody else has had that…Dec 9, 2020Dec 9, 2020
How to turbocharge your Rails APIBuilding an API with Rails is super easy. Active Model makes managing your domain model relationships and querying your database…Dec 1, 2020Dec 1, 2020
Are you an optimist or a pessimist?The technology we (humans) use has conditioned us to be impatient. We (again, humans) have become so easily frustrated by…Oct 31, 2020Oct 31, 2020
Learning Through Doing — Rails, OmniAuth, BootstrapThis week I built an app that allows tutors to post their availability for tutoring sessions, and lets students book sessions according to…Oct 4, 2020Oct 4, 2020
Tracking Energy Use Takes EnergyThis week I built an app using an MVC framework. I used Active Record to handle the database, Sinatra to handle HTTP requests and…Aug 30, 2020Aug 30, 2020
The Command LineAhhh the command line… a powerful interface that served as the forerunner for the more intuitive and user friendly interfaces that were…Jul 31, 2020Jul 31, 2020
so you want to be a software engineer… wait, why?Problem solving. It’s pretty simple. If something is not right, you develop a solution that makes it right. That’s what drew me to…Jul 6, 2020Jul 6, 2020
