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Life after university and working for a corporation
November 06, 2020It’s been nearly two years since I started my professional journey by joining Telstra Purple. It’s been an amazing and rewarding ride. Today…
Look into React Website
January 14, 2020PreambleFirst post for 2020 🎉. Probably post a year in review soonish… Welcome back to our projects or work :)The #1 advice I always give…
CFC Project Learnings
August 25, 2019It has been a while since I posted on this blog. Hopefully I can get back into it :) Running projects require a different skill set than…
Introduction to CFC projects
June 20, 2019Thank you for choosing to help out in one of our charity projects 💜. We love and appreciate the fact that you have volunteered your time…
Weekly Learnings 23rd of May
May 23, 2019Storing JWT tokens in localStorageStoring JWT tokens in is common but it is considered bad practice since it opens you up to exploitation…
Weekly Learnings May 17th
May 17, 2019Testing and DebuggingYou can use statement to breakpoint an application. Just open dev tools first then run the application and it will…
GraphQL Hype
April 26, 2019Facebook initially developed GraphQL for internal consumption in 2012/2013 before publicly releasing it in 2015 and subsequently moved it to…
My software tools
April 26, 2019Here are a list of my favourite tools I will always download on my new computer. This is aimed at frontend development.Summary of ToolsGet a…
Create a Mosaic in HTML and CSS
March 20, 2019Click on the image to view the screen cast.Here is the accompanying code.
Lessons Learnt & Looking at the future and past of CFC
January 29, 2019Lessons LearntI thought I would share some of the wisdom that I have gained in the trenches.Writing good software is hard. Most websites are…
How to move your website to a new hosting provider
January 27, 2019There will always come a time when you need to move your website or more likely your database to another hosting platform. For example you…
Should You Use Serverless?
January 01, 2019AnswerDefinitely worth a look but still immature, difficult to debug and community/documentation underdeveloped. I would stick with your…
About Coders for Causes and Blog
December 30, 2018This blog was started by David which mainly discusses software and tips for student/professional developers. Content would revolve around…
Best Practices for Express Apps
December 30, 2018Process managersAutomatically restart appPerformance metricsModify settings dynamically to improve performanceControl…
Break Down of a Database URL
December 30, 2018Join the Next Billion Dollar Startup
December 30, 2018Tech companies are constantly being acquired for hundreds of millions even billions of dollars. Take for example the this recent acquisition…
Break Down of Current Programming Landscape
December 30, 2018The much anticipated annual SO survey has just dropped here is the link to the entire results https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/201…
Simple Common Laravel Mistakes
December 30, 2018Everything looks bigger in production but in local environment everything is sized correctly.Zoom level is different for the web pagesThe…
How to Delete Documents with Mongoose
December 30, 2018You have to add a callback to the statement e.g. You can’t do something like this If that doesn’t work try this longer way
Douglas Crockford Notes
December 30, 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPB34lDZj3E Talks about the ideal programming language. Introduces some interesting ideas0.1 + 0.2 should…
Understanding Events in Laravel
December 30, 2018I have grown to like the Laravel framework very much even though I am not a fan of php. The reason why I like it so much is because it takes…
Export MongoDB
December 30, 2018This technique doesn’t work too well with mongo atlas. Instead mongoDB compass can be used to import and export the data. There you will…
Setting up HTTPS on AWS
December 30, 2018Most websites use the https protocol to serve all their traffic. This is to ensure that the data is encrypted so no unintended party can…
How to Import MySQL Data Remotely
December 30, 2018Your database contains the most valuable part of your application, its data. All other parts of your applications Frontend, backend, API…
Nice Way to Insert HTML using Pure JavaScript
December 30, 2018Normally to insert html one would use the function however it becomes a pain when you just want to append something because you would…
Solving Pip Install Issue
December 30, 2018The default python/pip installation on mac produces some issues when trying to run here are some ways to fix it. I would suggest reading…
Useful Resources for Web Dev
December 30, 2018Easy design tips to use on your site immediately https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-practical-tips-for-cheating-at-design-40c…
Useful Jetbrains Shortcuts
December 30, 2018Alt + up arrow to quickly move between functionsAlt + enter to intention actionsCtrl + shift + f7 Highlight all usagesCtrl+Alt+Shift+N To…
Little Trick with Axios
December 30, 2018Without a doubt Axios is a great HTTP client library. It simplifies and improves http requests although the new es6 http calls are nice in…
The Most Popular Material Frameworks
December 30, 2018Ever since the release of material design by google websites have been adopting it for its beautiful design and it’s ability to give a…
Free stuff for students
December 01, 2018Being a student and a software developer is actually quite an attractive position for a lot of organizations so they offer you a lot of…
New Beginnings
May 28, 2015Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in…
My Second Post!
May 06, 2015Wow! I love blogging so much already.Did you know that “despite its name, salted duck eggs can also be made from chicken eggs, though the…
Hello World
May 01, 2015This is my first post on my new fake blog! How exciting!I’m sure I’ll write a lot more interesting things in the future.Oh, and here’s a…