webdev coding Passionate Journey As I am sitting at home during this worldwide pandemic, I have been reflecting on my coding journey. I just graduated from Flatiron School and have ... Chuck Smith Sat Apr 11 2020
webdev parceljs coding Streamline Workflow It is fun to learn new developing technologies. As you try these new systems, most provide an installation bundler to get the new end user started. ... Chuck Smith Fri May 01 2020
rails tailwindcss webdev Pagination Styling in Rails Adding pagination to any web site can be a challenge. Luckily, there are a few ways to accomplish this is Rails. This article will add pagination to a ... Chuck Smith Sat May 23 2020
react Bulma webdev beginner Bulma Navbar Toogle with React Hooks When starting a new project, the styling we use is often one of the first considerations. I generally prefer to code my own SCSS, but often there in ... Chuck Smith Sat Jun 06 2020
gridsome vuejs webdev tutorial Gridsome Post Comments In this tutorial, we will look at how to add Disqus commenting into a Gridsome site. Since Gridsome is part of the Vue.js eco-system, these steps ... Chuck Smith Sun Jun 14 2020
webdev tutorial Learn a New Language When was the last time you had the desire to learn a new programming language? It can at first seem like a daunting task. However, it can be easier ... Chuck Smith Sun Jul 05 2020
rails ruby webdev tutorials Rails Boilerplate So far in this series, we have looked at the benefits of using a Boilerplate to streamline your workflow, and a two articles on how to set up a React ... Chuck Smith Tue Jul 07 2020
node webdev javascript Express Bodyparser I am learning how much I love back-end architectures. This week I decided to through away the tutorials and code my first Node Express server. After ... Chuck Smith Sun Jul 19 2020
vuejs forms webdev Vuetify Form Validation Full Stack MEVN App Recently I have been learning Express and this app I have been working on will eventually be a Survey App, a more full featured ... Chuck Smith Tue Jul 21 2020
webdev git Git Alias Workflow Continuing this article series about Streamlining Workflow, must include a way to streamline our git commands. This article uses my own aliases and a ... Chuck Smith Sat Aug 01 2020
rails css webdev Conditional CSS Classes in HAML I have been working on a new Rails side project called Your Congress, and decided to use HAML, instead of the standard Rails templating language ... Chuck Smith Sun Aug 09 2020
rails webdev ruby Refactor Rails As any one journeys through any profession, one thing holds true. Hopefully, the longer you work at it, the better your skills will develop, at least ... Chuck Smith Fri Aug 14 2020
rails ruby webdev Rails DRY Controllers In any programming language, it is important to create DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) code. In this article we will explore three methods of writing ... Chuck Smith Sun Sep 06 2020
rails ruby webdev Rails Active Storage On any web application, the ability to use images are tantamount. In a Ruby on Rails project, using Active Storage increases the flexibility to use ... Chuck Smith Sun Sep 13 2020
rails ruby webdev Rails Gravatar In the previous article in this series, we learned about Active Storage. We set up an interface to allow a user to add an Avatar to their user ... Chuck Smith Sun Sep 20 2020
rails ruby webdev New Rails Template In this article we take a look at a more complete Rails template, to start a new Rails project. Why? With a custom template, you can start developing ... Chuck Smith Sun Sep 27 2020
ruby webdev Ruby 3.0 adds After the last four or five years of the promises of a new major version of Ruby (Ruby 3), it looks like this new version is set to release on ... Chuck Smith Sun Oct 04 2020
rails database webdev Rails Multiple Seed Files If you have a larger Rails project, or a project with many resources, managing one database seed file can get out of hand. In the name of DRY-ing out ... Chuck Smith Sun Oct 11 2020
rails ruby tutorial webdev Rails Basic Template There is no need for developers to walking the same path, performing the same tasks at the beginning of any project, over and over again. That is what ... Chuck Smith Wed Jan 13 2021
rails ruby webdev Set Up Rbenv Revisited I have been working on setting up a new operating system distribution. I took some time to test out a different package manager, but ended up going ... Chuck Smith Wed Mar 03 2021