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Grant Hesketh
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Jun 18, 2021

More Hook Fun!

Last time I was looking at React hooks we went over the useState hook. Its a super useful hook and can make code cleaner and more uniform. Now it’s time to look at the other big one in React, useEffect. useEffect is for the side effects that happen when a…

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More Hook Fun!
More Hook Fun!

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Jun 12, 2021

Comparing Ruby to Python

I recently completed a skills assessment for my job search and ran into a bit of a wall. I had to solve an algorithm, pretty standard stuff, however I wasn't familiar to any of the languages that were available to solve. One of the languages was python. I tried to…

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Jun 4, 2021

What even are Hooks?

React to me is a great framework for building seamless single page web applications. It has many built in features that allow developers to write their applications in many ways to achieve similar results. Its got all kinds of special sauce laced throughout the framework. …

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What even are Hooks?
What even are Hooks?

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May 28, 2021

The Magic of Scaffolding in Rails

Rails is an awesome web framework that has all kinds of magic sprinkled into it. Built on Ruby, rails allows you to create RESTful API’s super fast and almost without thinking. The fastest way to do this is with a fun little trick called scaffolding. Scaffolding is a macro built…

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The Magic of Scaffolding in Rails
The Magic of Scaffolding in Rails

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Apr 1, 2021

Recapping my Flatiron School Experience

Wow. Here we are. The end of my bootcamp experience with Flatiron School. It been a long 15 weeks (actually a couple extra due to the holidays), and I mean long. When I first started I reflected on my past experiences in college and was preparing myself for that kind…

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Apr 1, 2021

Making Cards in React Native

Iterating over data to create identical elements with different data is paramount to software development. Luckily it’s not too hard to do! Let’s take a look into the structure and method to take a set of data and iterate through it to make cards with React Native. First, we will…

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Making Cards in React Native
Making Cards in React Native

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Mar 30, 2021

Using a Background image in React Native

Well hello again. As i’ve been learning the wonderful world of React and React Native, i’ve found myself wanting to spice things up a bit. And by spice things up I mean use images for backgrounds in my apps! With regular HTML and CSS this is pretty easy. You simply…

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Using a Background image in React Native
Using a Background image in React Native

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Mar 4, 2021

Manipulating the DOM for Dummies Like Me

One of the first things we covered when starting to learn Javascript at Flatiron was the DOM. Who is he? What does he do? Is he more machine than man? Well, yea pretty much. The DOM is not a person. The DOM actually stand for the Document Object Model. At…

Dom

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Manipulating the DOM for dummies like me
Manipulating the DOM for dummies like me
Dom

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Dec 18, 2020

Changing Careers

For the last 7 years or so i’ve spent my time traveling to remote parts of the country to work in the oilfield. Those places are most often sparsely populated and either unbearably frigid or swelteringly hot. …

Career Change

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Changing Careers
Changing Careers
Career Change

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Grant Hesketh

Grant Hesketh

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Full Stack Software Engineer with an Oilfield past

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