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2014 April - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. Monthly Archive: April 2014. 22 Apr, 2014. Tests are great to have for any Rails application, but it can become inconvenient to have to run them repeatedly. Two utilities, Guard and Spork, can be used in conjunction to help streamline your test suite and speed up your tests. Guard is a utility which helps automate your tests. You can specify which files you want it to watch, and Guard.. Sleepy Dinosaur Learns to Code. Today I Learned…. Just Your Average Coder-ess.
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Finding Closure During A Monster Attack - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. Finding Closure During A Monster Attack. Middot; January 22, 2014. This week at Flatiron we’ve been diving into Javascript, and I came across the concept of closures. A closure is when you return a function inside a function in a way that the child function keeps reference to any variables defined in the parent function. Take the following example. If you wanted to specify a different target and weapon each time you were caught battling monsters you could call:.
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What’s that you’re hearing? Oh, just your browser talking to you. - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. What’s that you’re hearing? Oh, just your browser talking to you. Middot; January 20, 2014. Once you get an app online with Sinatra or Rails, it quickly becomes important to be able to talk to your browser, and listen to it. How else will you tell it what to do? You need to understand a little bit of what’s going on to really be able to control the browser and get input from the user. The key to that, is the mysterious yet pervasive params hash. And be impossible....
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2014 March - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. Monthly Archive: March 2014. 21 Mar, 2014. Spider Solitaire @ BrooklynJS. Last night, I was one of the speakers at the soon-to-be-known-as-renowned BrooklynJS. (If you live in NYC, it’s definitely a meetup to check out! My talk was on how I went about making a Spider Solitaire game in Javascript. (Slides are here for those who missed it! It reminded me, once again, how amazing this community is and how glad I am.. Sleepy Dinosaur Learns to Code. Today I Learned….
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Guard Your Spork - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. Middot; April 22, 2014. Tests are great to have for any Rails application, but it can become inconvenient to have to run them repeatedly. Two utilities, Guard and Spork, can be used in conjunction to help streamline your test suite and speed up your tests. The real power of Guard and Spork comes when they’re used in conjunction. You can connect Guard and Spork so that Guard launches a Spork server and runs its automated tests on that. You may also like. 21 Sep, 2014.
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Who You Gonna Call(back)? - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. Who You Gonna Call(back)? Middot; February 6, 2014. In Javascript, callback functions are widely used. But what is a callback function? It’s a function which is passed as an argument to another function. MyFunc(someArgument, anotherFunc);. In order to make your own callback function, you simply need to pass in the name of a function as an argument, define it, and call it at some point in the function. Here’s an example:. Var callback = function(){. For (var i = 0; i.
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2014 June - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. Monthly Archive: June 2014. 17 Jun, 2014. 3 Countries, 3 Conferences, 38 Days. Starting mid-April, I went on a whirlwind of three conferences, two of which were international, in just over a month. They were all incredible experiences, culminating in JS Conf, where I helped lead a NodeBoats workshop! More on that later. JS Conf Brazil First stop was JS Conf Brazil in beautiful Fortaleza. Despite being in Brazil, the conference was in English, with..
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3 Countries, 3 Conferences, 38 Days - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. 3 Countries, 3 Conferences, 38 Days. Middot; June 17, 2014. Starting mid-April, I went on a whirlwind of three conferences, two of which were international, in just over a month. They were all incredible experiences, culminating in JS Conf, where I helped lead a NodeBoats workshop. More on that later. First stop was JS Conf Brazil. Emulating Chuck Close’s. Artwork by Dave Furfero, aka Furf. How to implement ES6 on the front end by John Paul. Next up was jQuery Conf UK.
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The Start of Project Week - My Kind Of Geek
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My Kind Of Geek. An adventurer's log. The Start of Project Week. Middot; January 16, 2014. This week at Flatiron we started working on our long-term projects. We’ve worked in groups at various points through the semester, but working in a fixed group for a longer, bigger project brings a different perspective with it. On top of that is the challenge of this being our first complete Rails app. Working in a group also has its challenges. It can be tempting to look too far ahead and start pulling the en...
