Virtualization to Containerization — If you haven’t heard about docker already, it’s only a matter of time. Docker and Kubernetes are the modern day container systems for storing and managing your own data, or more importantly a team or companies data. But first how did we arrive at Docker? History! In the beginning… Back in…

An “It” Power Couple — What is Typescript, and why do we bother with it? If you’ve already looked into Typescript you’re probably tired of hearing that it is a superset of javascript. Broadly speaking it is javascript but with bonus features that we get from the typescript scaffolding we lay over our application. Typescript Pros… Interfaces…

Another Tool for Your Javascript Belt — What is Lodash? Let’s talk about one of the most popular and heavily downloaded npm packages. Lodash is a JavaScript library that provides built in functions for common programming tasks by using a functional programming paradigm; it builds upon the older underscore.js library. The Lodash built-in utility functions make coding in JavaScript easier…

An intro into the Edge in 2020 and Why a Dev Should Care — What is Edge Computing? Gartner defines edge computing as “a part of a distributed computing topology in which information processing is located close to the edge — where things and people produce or consume that information.” Let’s just dive a little deeper into what it means to be close to “the edge”. …

making a case for more time decision making early on — As individuals and as collective teams or organizations, we are all looking for speed and efficiency when launching a new big feature, or brand new application. Time is money and we seem to be encouraged to launch as speedily as possible. This mentality seems to force many people to power…

A Quick and to the Point, Real World Example of how Regex Comes in Handy. Once again, the sandman lost my address last week so I found myself starting to experiment with a new late night project. On the menu this time was a React Native app that translates Pig…

Did you know it could be this easy? — So last Thursday night I couldn’t sleep, and after a few minutes of losing a starring contest with the wall I decided this was the perfect opportunity to try deploying an app on Github Pages. (true story) Let me preface by saying it’ll prob take me longer to type this…

Things you wish you knew before entering the Dev Workforce. As told by Up and Coming Software Engineers. When you’re working towards a goal, you get tunnel vision for the finish line. You have your eyes set on the prize. You may be mastering a language, learning a new framework…

DOM Traversing and Manipulation Traversing “Traversing the DOM” is basically the ability to navigate through different objects to get anywhere you need. Based on selection, we can easily move up (ancestors), down (descendants) and sideways (siblings) in the tree, starting from the selected (current) element. …