Welcome back guys, this week I wanted to talk about the project I have been working on since the end of February and just released www.zerowasteshops.com. I am excited to finally release it for use and feedback. I taught it would be interesting to give a background to the project and why I decided to build…
Best Coding editor: Atom vs Visual Studio Code
A few weeks ago I published a post for My favourite Atom packages of 2017, a few weeks after this Atom started crashing and becoming slow. After looking around online it seems to be an issue with Atom and big projects. I went looking for an alternative editor and I saw a number of developers…
Breaking your comfort zone
Introduction Welcome back guys, the last few posts has focused on more the technical side but this week will be a bit more personal. I will be discussing the Comfort Zone. So what is the “comfort zone”? I am pretty sure everyone is familiar with the concept of a comfort zone but this image sums…
Deploy a MEAN stack application to Heroku
Last week we discussed Deploying a NodeJS application to Heroku in 5 minutes, the one problem with this tutorial was if your application had a database it wouldn’t work. This week I will show you how to Deploy a MEAN stack application that connects out to a hosted Mongo Database. I will not be going into to…
Deploy a NodeJS application to Heroku in 5 minutes
Welcome back, this week I want to take a sample NodeJS application and deploy it to Heroku. I have heard of people deploying their apps to Heroku but I never took the time to actually check it out. If you don’t know what Heroku is: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables…
Standing Desks – BEKANT IKEA Review
Introduction Welcome back, This week I taught I would take a break from discussing frameworks/tools and bring up the subject of developer health, more specifically Standing Desks. The reason why I bought a standing desk was that I recently read the book Get Up!: Why Your Chair Is Killing You and What You Can Do…
Angular 2 – Whats different and which one to learn
Welcome back guys, this week I am going to be discussing my experience going from AngularJS 1 to AngularJS 2. When I first started with AngularJS I was debating if I should just skip Angular 1 and go directly to Angular 2, after reading about it online it seemed like I was not the only…
Best Atom packages 2017/2018 – My Favorites
Over past few months I have been using the Atom Editor almost exclusively, today I wanted to share my favorite Atom packages/plugins that are actually useful . I work with a variety of programming languages so there will be something for everybody. General Sunset – Are you a developer that likes a white editor during…
Simple MEAN Stack Application [Last Part] – Getting and Displaying MongoDB results
Hey guys, this week we will continue to work on our Simple MEAN Stack EscapeCharacterHelper application. Last time we verified that we could GET and POST information to and from our applications back-end thereby confirming communication between the Front-end and the Back-end. If you missed the last part it’s here. This week we are going…
Simple MEAN Stack Application [pt2] – Front-end to Back-end communication
Let’s finish up the MEAN Stack application, this week we will continue to work on our Simple MEAN Stack EscapeCharacterHelper application. Last time we got our base project setup, got all the necessary dependencies installed and verified it as working. If you are new to this tutorial series here is the link to the last…