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Refactor Songs and Code
I love to write code. It’s the only activity I’ve found that gives me the same buzz as writing a song. Here are some thoughts on similarities between writing code and writing a song. …
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The Clean Coder
I recently read an excellent book called The Clean Coder written by Robert C. Martin, a.k.a. Dr. Bob. I wanted to share a few excellent points that stuck with me. …
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Front-end is icing on the cake
Our students have 4-6 main projects that they create both individually and as a group during their time in WDI. One thing I preach to my students is process over product. Here are a few take-a-ways from a project week sprint that I feel are more valuable than having the most awesome project. Did the student… …
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jquery append() v. appendTo()
As an exercise, I started creating a tic-tac-toe game in Codepen using Javascript and jQuery only (no HTML or CSS). The difference between
append()andappendTo()is pretty straightforward, but I’d never really come across a sufficent reason to use one over the other until I started building my game. I had a interesting realization I wanted to share. …
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rails + angular + bower
Rails provides an excellent backend for your Javascript front-end framework. …
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Gear Freaks
There are gear freaks in both the music and tech worlds. …
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Python + Ruby Differences
I’m taking a Data Science course that incorporates Python. I thought I’d write a quick + dirty summary of some key (cool) differences between the two languages. Forgive me if the syntax is slightly off as I’m writing this from memory. …
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Taylor Swift HTML
in progress… …
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Why Fire Ready Aim?
I’ve wanted to set-up Jekyll for a while to blog about my musical and development ramblings. I see a lot of similarities between the musical and development worlds. …