My Website (Case Study) I enjoy keeping personal projects moving and when I get time I like to play with new and different technologies, when I run out of ideas I end-up falling back to just rebuilding my website which has had a number of iterations over the years as it is a fun
case study Chinsay - Smart Clauses (Case Study) During my time at Chinsay I was responsible for working with the in house document editor to enhance and add new features and functionality to it as required by the clients. This case study follows along with the smart clause feature I led and helped move through to completion, it
case study Impala - No Code (Case Study) My time at Impala was pretty short and I was not able to really accomplish as much as I would have liked, in reality I had just started to get settled into the work and taking over the frontend before the company had a major restructuring and I ended up
general Road map for 2022, Times are a changing 2020 and 2021 have been very eventful years I feel I have grown a lot in my career and overall, in reality there is little to be openly disappointed in. I of course didn't achieve everything I set-out to do but I did achieve a lot and plenty
updates Look back on 2021 2021 has been another one of those weird years really with many things still remaining the same in the fallout from 2020, and in many ways 2020 was a great year for me in many ways 2021 continued to trend well in many aspects but I exit the year in
engineering The Mindset Of A Productive Developer Being a professional developer is much more than just being able to push quality code everyday, that is of course a part of it but this is only the beginning and in order to really progress and improve in a fast moving industry there are many skills required to not
engineering The 2021 High Level Road Map Last year was a busy year I achieved a lot looking back on it, but not what I had planned for. With switching jobs and many challenges over the year a lot of my learning goals morphed into new objectives, still equally as valuable but shifting myself away from my
Off Topic Year Wrap 2020... That Year 2020 has been a rather long and eventful year, everyone I am sure has many tales about how their year has been, some good and some bad. For me 2020 has not been a bad year in many ways is has been one of my defining years for many reasons,
coding App Misadventures Part 3: The Core Apps are always a complex item to build out and starting from scratch is both one of the greatest advantages and biggest worry as a developer. On one hand you have absolute control over the project and can bend it to your own style. On the other hand you have
Full Stack App Misadventures Part 2: Config When starting a new project getting the base right is vital, you need to ensure that what you are working with will be robust enough to propel your project ahead. This is of course a daunting task, how can you ever know exactly where your project will lead you and
coding App Misadventures Part 1: Planning Now I have a goal, I have a purpose and a fairly clear understanding of where I need to head. An app like this can be huge, it can grow exponentially, it must be planned, it must be focused and I must pull out all the vital concepts and items
coding App Misadventures: Part 0 - Beginnings 2020 has been quite a year, there has been a lot of lows some highs and an awful lot of change. I have accomplished a good amount that I didn't expect to this year and also failed to achieve others I had in my sight, it has been
Hacktoberfest 2020 Last year I started to work on finishing up HacktoberFest but being new to the open source community I ended up letting it lapse and didn't really manage much. This year I was determined to get it done, then 2020 happened I forgot all about it until the
engineering The Full Stack Lie It's pretty common place to see adverts and companies looking for full stack developers, this of course makes a whole lot of sense for smaller companies they want that jack of all trades that generalist to plug the many gaps they just don't have the budget
engineering Getting Back In The Groove This year has been quite a year a lot of happenee both globally and with my own life as well, it has been a long one but I'll do some year retrospectives eventually now I need to get myself moving with my own personal projects and outside learning
Starting A New Job Remotely Starting a new job is always a troubling and stressful time. You are learning all the new processes; being bombarded with meetings, on-boarding well new information from every direction; and you are trying to get to know everyone, it really is a busy and stressful time and then you factor
interviews Looking For A Job In A Crisis Looking for work is always a very trying experience it takes a lot of time and you are basically just repeating yourself over and over again for what feels like an eternity, so what could be worse than looking for work during COVID-19! I had the unenvious task recently of
React React Hooks The Rundown In late 2018 Facebook changed the face of React by adding in Hook, a new way to write apps wholely relying on functional components and with other libraries implementing hooks along with the core library now everything can be done using the new design. We adopted hooks into our app
coding A Simple Rust Rocket Service In my quest to build up my understanding of Rust I decided to play with Rocket the web framework for Rust, but I had to find inspiration on what to actually do in Rocket. As this was my first time using it Rocket I just wanted something small and easy
coding The State of Rust Rust is a language I am determined to get more practice down this year and I have been really interested in Rocket which is a modern web framework for Rust that is pretty nice and rather powerful. Rocket provides a pretty robust api to create some very well designed web
Off Topic New Year New Code It has been a bit of time since I've added on to here, as the end of year has proven to be rather busy and with the new arrival of our son (Max) in late December we have had our hands rather full. This has taken a lot
coding Plans For The Year Ahead Technology is a forever moving and evolving entity and with it the work. We are required to be always learning and advancing and at this retrospective time of year it is no better time than to start planning for the next year. There is a lot to consider for the
coding Why JavaScript Needs Typescript One of JavaScripts greatest strengths is how flexible it is, it is however also one of its biggest weaknesses as JavaScript allows you to get a lot done quickly however it allows for pretty much any style you want and this on any large project usually ends in chaos. JavaScript
coding Lets Get Functional The time of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) ruling the landscape seems to be coming to an end and although a lot of the alternatives are not exactly new they do offer some paradigms which were missing and at the very least encourage a little more flexibility within the development space.
coding My React Journey One Year On I started my frontend journey with Angular 1.x, I briefly worked with jQuery but really I started With Angular and it was such a step up from Vanilla JS and provided some awesome reactive functions! I loved Angular I had got use to the syntax and was creating some
