Nov 8, 2021UseEffect in ReactAn incredibly useful tool in React is useEffect. This allows you to watch for changes in the state, and act on them however you like! To use useEffect the basic structure is: useEffect(() => {}, []) Inside the function is whatever if going to happen each time the looked for…Useeffect2 min readUseeffect2 min read
Oct 27, 2021Converting from a stateful component to a functional component with hooks in ReactHowdy folks, hope alls well with y’all. Thought I would go into something I have found very useful, which is converting from stateful component to using hooks in React. This will also go into the glorious useState and useEffect hooks (more on that next blog). A wonderful reason for moving…Coding2 min readCoding2 min read
Nov 27, 2020Cleo AI: my views on financial advice given by a gif-wielding machineRecently, whilst chatting with friends, I heard about Cleo. You have to understand what conversations with me are like. I have a love for good-natured comedy, and I’m readily armed with a gif for every occasion. So of course my friends were going to tell me about a financial app…Cleo7 min readCleo7 min read
Published in The Startup·Nov 25, 2020Finding the Sum of All Primes Equal to or Under a Given Number in JavaScript (and Then Again in Ruby)So, as promised here I am with the answer of how to get the sum of primes under a given number. JS and Ruby have very different ways of managing this, as before I will first approach the JS solution, then will go into the much swifter Ruby version. So…Ruby4 min readRuby4 min read
Published in The Startup·Nov 19, 2020Finding the Smallest Common Multiple in JavaScript (and Also in Ruby)Well this is the story, all about how my sums got flipped, turned upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how to work out Common multiples in JavaSript. Yeah doesn’t work so well. However nor does JS when doing either of…Ruby5 min readRuby5 min read
Published in The Startup·Nov 9, 2020Doing a Bootcamp remotely: An Englishman’s tale of an American CohortI shall put an initial proviso here, everything I say from this point onwards is very subjective to my experience. However I hope that some of the following words will be beneficial! So, one of the main things I will start by mentioning, I have recently graduated from the Flatiron…Bootcamp6 min readBootcamp6 min read
Published in The Startup·Oct 9, 2020Dealing With Redux User Authentication & Flatirons Final HurdleSo my friends, here we are, I have prospered under the teachings of Flatiron up to this point and now I have reached the final grand Hurrah. My 5th (and final) Module is upon us dear readers.Redux8 min readRedux8 min read
Published in The Startup·Sep 11, 2020When JavaScript came to tea. (Also why JavaScript classes are useful, and what’s this?)So my friends, join me on a journey. I shall take you back, back through the mists of time to three days ago. Where JavaScript classes were scary and foreign creatures, their purpose as clear as the Limpopo river to me (the muddy bits of it anyway). Anyway, I’m gonna…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Published in The Startup·Aug 14, 2020Member-onlyRails Project and How to Create a Validated MonsterSo here we are at the Rails Project stage, it feels like only yesterday I was doing simple addition programming and being wowed by it. Now I am making 11 model monsters with multiple has_many to has_many relationships. What a lot can change in just a few months! I decided…Rails5 min readRails5 min read
Jul 13, 2020Module 2: Electric BoogalooSo here we are nearing the end of Module 2 of the Online Flatiron Software Engineering course. This module has been going from basic use of SQlite all the way up to using it within Sinatra to make a fully functioning database with constructed GUI. So I, like the nerd…Dnd4 min readDnd4 min read
