This week I co-presented progressive web applications with Kellee Martins at the Denver Code Club meetup. Check out the recording below. It’s worth noting that many of the information and images were compiled from third-party sources. If I missed an attribution, please let me know.
Last Wednesday I met up with some colleagues at the Alliance Center in LoDo to attend HTML5 Denver Users Group‘s one-day workshop, Mastering MEAN. The organizer, Scott Davis, spent the day walking a class of 50 or so people with various backgrounds through the ins and outs of the newer stack. Scott took his time and explained… More
In response to the Louisville Laravel Meetup’s Interview Scheduling demo app, I created Applikation, the app to manage job applications. It was an excuse to get my hands dirty with Laravel in preparation for their next Meetup event. I managed to set up Homestead, set up migration tables, add seed data, and display a basic list… More
Over the holiday, Mom had been gifted a new Macbook Air and was kind enough to send me home with her old 13″ Macbook Pro. After making the appropriate backups, I decided to reformat the Macbook and to turn it into my development machine. During some downtime over New Years, I started with a fresh copy… More
After getting a good deal of the way through Professional JavaScript for Web Developers over the summer, Denver Code Club has been reading Nicholas Zakas‘ new Principles of Object Oriented JavaScript book for the past few weeks. It’s a great, quick read (6 chapters, 93 pages) so far, though very dense. It’s taking me a… More
Today I met up with the Node.js Denver/Boulder group downtown for a Nodeschool.io hack day. Richard Lucas, who I had met awhile back at a Denver Code Club meetup, organized the event at Code Talent for 32 of us to meet and work our way through the various Nodeschool.io modules, with mentors wandering around to help out if… More
Though we’ve continued to unofficially meet up every week, Denver Code Club hasn’t had an event scheduled for awhile. The co-organizer, Matt Steele, and I took a few months off, examining the state of our careers and carefully considering which directions we wanted to go. We’ve reorganized and come up with an official plan of attack: Summer of JavaScript. Unfortunately,… More
I’ll be attending WordCamp Orange County (Fifth Anniversary Edition) this year (June 7-8). They just released the schedule and here are the talks I’ll likely be attending: Saturday, June 7 Cain & Obenland In the Morning UX for WordPress Platforms Enterprise WordPress – Performance, Scalability & Redundancy WordPress Community: Choose Your Own Adventure Designing a… More
I’ve been dabbling with Node.js for the past six months or so and I knew I wanted to learn more, so when I saw the local Node group was having “An Intro to Node.js and a little more” meetup, I was pretty excited. I couldn’t make it to the intro event they had in Boulder,… More
