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
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
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
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
coding My First Year At Hooq It has been a year of learning and growth, so much has changed and I feel like I've came so far since last year, and yet. I still see the tracks disappearing off into the horizon of all the things I have yet to learn. The completion of
coding When to Follow Technology When Not to Technology evolves at a rapid rate, JavaScript often feels even worse but developers also love the next new thing. Just how do you decide when a technology is worth the time and when to skip it? GitHub is littered with the husks of failed projects ranging from Frameworks to small
coding My New Site Stack Outwardly my site hasn't really change much it on a surface level looks pretty similar to how it always has done, however all of the underlying technology have change along with a way more efficient delivery system. It is, kinda, pretty awesome Way back in 2016 when I
coding I've Got 99 Problems but the Image Ain't One Containerization is amazing, it is a low overhead easy to maintain sustainable long term solution that helps create highly portable apps that will just run... Everywhere I started using Docker for all my personal project probably around a year ago at this point and I haven't looked back
coding Enabling Continuous Delivery with Github Actions One of the dreams I have had for my site is to be able to build updates push them to GitHub and for the update process to be automatic, finally I have achieved this with GitHub Actions. I am not the biggest fan of server architecture or about how to
coding The beginning of something new There was nothing really wrong with my old site and it served me pretty well overall and gave me a great platform to share my thoughts with the world, for better or worse but it was time for something a little... different As I have grown as a developer I
