APR 23, 2020 — GOALS, QUARTERLY REVIEW

FEB 16, 2020 — ART, OAKLAND

Went to the Rhymosaurs Book 3 release party near my old neighborhood in West Oakland. Hella positive, hella fun.

MAR 27, 2018 — LARAVEL

When a user registers for your website keep their account inactive until they click a verification link that you send to their email address.

MAR 1, 2018 — LARAVEL

FEB 20, 2018

FEB 11, 2018

Six technologies I recommend learning in 2018: Laravel, Object-Oriented PHP, Wordpress, Shopify, AWS Lambda and Serverless, Vue.js

FEB 9, 2018

JAN 12, 2018

Some notes about getting started with PHP programming in 2018. Start a web sever, install composer and make a website!

JAN 10, 2018

DEC 1, 2017 — JAVASCRIPT

NOV 26, 2017 — CAREER

To grow your career as a software engineer it’s important to recognize the different methodologies for evaluating talent.

NOV 12, 2017

Guestbook built with Laravel 5 API. Follow along with @rachidlaasri Scotch.io tutorial

OCT 30, 2017

OCT 18, 2017

OCT 8, 2017 — JAVASCRIPT

In this tutorial we build a shopping cart with straight up Vue 2 (no Vuex) and style it using the Element UI vue component toolkit.

OCT 3, 2017

SEP 18, 2017

SEP 15, 2017 — JAVASCRIPT

This tutorial goes through building out a shopping cart application with Vue.js and state management using Vuex. Users can browse products, add products to cart and view the total cost of their order. We set up routing using vue-router.

AUG 29, 2017

Get your Laravel 5 app live with a MySQL database using Heroku and PHP

AUG 28, 2017 — CLOUD

In this tutorial we build out a ride sharing application utilizing jQuery, Node.js and AWS Serverless architecture for fun and profit.

AUG 19, 2017

This post goes through building a website for selling products. We set up a Vue client side application and Node.js server side app. The apps use Stripe Javascript libraries for payment processing. We deploy the static app to Amazon S3 and deploy the server to the cloud using Heroku

JUL 17, 2017 — LARAVEL

MAY 27, 2017

These are some helper methods and settings to make writing tests in Laravel easier, more clear and less verbose.

MAY 12, 2017

APR 30, 2017

Get Laravel, MySQL and SequelPro setup for starting a new web application. I refer back to this post all the time when starting new projects: `mysql -uroot -p`

JAN 8, 2017 — LARAVEL

JAN 2, 2017

DEC 28, 2016

DEC 27, 2016

Quickly build out your authentication scaffolding with Laravel 5

NOV 13, 2016

High level blog post comparing the merits of Laravel with Ruby On Rails

NOV 2, 2016 — JAVASCRIPT

JAN 1, 2016 — PROGRAMMING

Here are the steps to set up the MySQL database on a new mac machine.

DEC 16, 2015

DEC 14, 2015 — PROGRAMMING

DEC 4, 2015 — PROGRAMMING

DEC 2, 2015

NOV 30, 2015

NOV 29, 2015

I wrote this post as an Angular 1.x developer and gave a presentation to my team about the power of the React ecosystem. The post includes a collection of resources for learning the React.js template library.

NOV 29, 2015 — CAREER

OCT 24, 2015

OCT 24, 2015

General introduction into how React.js can work as a view layer

OCT 24, 2015

OCT 24, 2015

OCT 24, 2015

In this tutorial we set up Elastic Beanstalk for our Django application to deploy it live to the internet with a Postgres database. We use the Elasic Beanstalk CLI to push our changes to AWS infrastructure.

OCT 24, 2015 — JAVASCRIPT

OCT 23, 2015

Use JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to secure a Mongo, Express, Angular and Node.js application.. affectionately known as the MEAN stack. JWT are stateless so can be used to secure APIs that communicate with multiple applications.

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 23, 2015

Koa is a Javascript HTTP server framework developed by TJ, the creator of express. It was meant to be the successor to the express npm package as it uses ES6 generators. This tutorial gets started with the framework through building a web server.

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 23, 2015

In this tutorial we set up a Python Django project with a virtual environment, create a Cards model and then render the data to the HTML view.

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 23, 2015

This app explores getting started with the Meteor Javascript Framework, circa 2015.

OCT 23, 2015

Intro to ES6 arrow functions

OCT 23, 2015

During RocketU coding bootcamp we built a lot of Django projects. I created a base starter template in order to save time. The template allows users to create JSON APIs quickly using Django and Django Rest Framework (DRF)

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 23, 2015 — JAVASCRIPT

This post goes through the somewhat arduous process of building a todo list application with Node.js, MongoDB and express. Ultimately we deploy the app to the internet with Git and Heroku. In the future I'd recommend some client side JS frameworks or generating an application like this quickly using Laravel.

OCT 23, 2015 — JAVASCRIPT

OCT 23, 2015

OCT 22, 2015

OCT 22, 2015

OCT 20, 2015

OCT 20, 2015

At the beginning of the RocketU we learned how to fix git merge conflicts. Though I had been working with Git for some time i had not worked extensively in teams so handling merge conflicts was new territory for me. Since I hadn't learning about it beofre I decided to write a short tutorial.

JAN 10, 2015