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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …