There is so much bad information on how to invest in stock market causing a lot of confusion for people that want to get started in investing that I decided to create a guideline for beginners based on Peter Lynch work.
Unit tests for UI developers is a underground world and today we will explore this world a bit, this is not a deep dive in the tools or Unit Test philosophy, for that you can find endless resource around the web.
When starting with React.js do not think forget about old paradigms, leave what you know about developing UI's outside. Focus on the ideas implemented in the library.
When I decided to migrate my blog platform Jekyll to Ghost blog platform I did not find any simple/useful way to export/import my posts besides this old Ruby script which did not work for me.. So I decided to solve this problem creating a nice npm module called Nodejs-Jekyll-to-Ghost which do the heavy work for those that want to migrate to ghost from Jekyll.
This is the second post on the series of Data Structure and Algorithms with JS - focused on Array. Notice that this is a overview/start point for those that need to brush up your knowledge on Arrays where we are going to be using on the future with more complex posts.
I don't have officially a Computer Science degree.. But clearly nowadays you wont need a degree as engineer. You just need to be passionate to what you do and have that eager to learn and always evolve.
I have been very curious about developing any kind of software for cars.. but of course I would be much more interested in develop using Open Web Technologies perhaps HTML5/CSS3 and Javascript how AWESOME that would be?
Everybody knows/use "innerHTML" to insert HTML but I was looking at the MDN website jumping between Web API's I did not know and one of them got my attention it's called insertAdjacentHTML..
Long story short.. I didn't want to check Best Buy every day to see if PS4 is available..So I built this Web Application to check every one (1) minute Best Buy Data and if find any PS4 available in store or online will send me an email notification with a direct link to the product.
Since the amount (just a few) of people sharing pictures on Instagram with Lollapalooza hashtag isn't the same as when the event was happening I decided to create Chicagogram.us with the hashtag
Today I'm sharing my presentation/slide about CSS bad and good practices and some really good tips. Hopefully this contribution to the community will help developers and designers make better products..FYI this can hurt your feeling.
It's about questioning what surround us to try understand things. The pragmatic programmer is a book that I'm looking forward to read after finish Javascript Web Applications..but for now this is what I would like to share related to the topic of this book.
My love for Javascript just get bigger and also my knowledge but that's not what I'm going to blog about today.. at this time I'm going to post about the Micro-Library I created Jet.js
As a developer I have been always curious to learn and try new technologies that can improve my skill and help me build better Web Applications..So today I'm going to try help you set up a simple Node.js server on Heroku Cloud using my small open source project aims deploy even faster Node.js applications.
A month ago was the event Lollapalooza in Chicago and some co-workers from my former company had an idea two years ago (if I'm not wrong) to develop a web Application showing latest pictures people were sharing from the event..and this year I wanted to take it to the next level.
I haven't posted anything a while which is a shame but I had good reasons and I should be doing why on my next post but this post is made to show what inspire me in some nights, what makes me think how wonderful world is and how much we cna learn from it.
I went to the HTML5 Developers Conference in San Francisco (01 Apr 13 to 03 Apr 13) and there I met some awesome developers from Brazil and as they are very active to help the developers community in Brazil with speaks, presentations and events they decided record a chat with me talking about how it is work in US, how I got a job here and some good tips for those that want to try this adventure.
Write CSS is more complex than some developers, software engineers and designers think and If you are a "Dogma" "best practice" person this post might hurt your feelings.
I'm not sure when it was but in the end of 2011 or beginning of 2012 I saw Lea Verou talking about "CSS3 Secrets - 10 things you might not know about CSS3" and it was great see how many great techniques we can use to achieve our client - side goals.
I think choose the right units of measurement have been always not "cool" enough but now with the popularity and acceptance of the Responsive Design people are thinking more about scale typography.
I needed a new look and like I said in my last (first) post I love to learn and experiment new things and at the same time I'm not very fan of Wordpress as a developer point of view.