Welcome back, as you have seen from my posts lately I am interested in everything web development. When I started looking into the world of web frameworks/libraries two options kept appearing, React and Angular. I would add Vue.js to that list if I was listing the most popular libraries now. Anyway, while I do love…
Digital Ocean – My First Experience
Last week I posted about releasing my new project: www.zerowasteshops.com linked here, In that post, I said I decided to host it on Digital Ocean. If you haven’t heard of Digital Ocean, you should really fix that. It advertises itself as “Cloud computing, designed for developers.”, other hosting websites such as Amazon or Softlayer seems to…
Zerowasteshops: Released my new project!
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…