Liked on YouTube: (#12) Ionic 3 and AngularFire v5 – Recap https://youtu.be/5R_U_R2SqUc Now we have an app that can add items, edit items and delete them. Let’s recap on what we’ve learnt throughout this course. Prefer written content or want a text version of the videos? Check out my blog: https://blog.paulhalliday.io Want to power up […]
Liked on YouTube: This Week on Windows: Microsoft Launcher, New Devices and More! https://youtu.be/zqwpNWhbY-M This week’s highlights include a look at the Samsung Odyssey Windows Mixed Reality headset, the new Microsoft Launcher on Android, the new Lenovo Yoga 920, Surface Dial support in Adobe Photoshop and much more. For more details check out the Windows […]
Liked on YouTube: PYTHON @ INSTAGRAM https://youtu.be/T9pSgt0DXQA Each day, over 95 million photos and videos are shared on Instagram. The unstoppable photo-centric social media platform has over 600 million registered users — 400 million of whom are active every day. Talk about operating at scale: Instagram kills it at levels most companies can barely even […]
It’s important to understand that there are 5 primitive data types in Javascript. Knowing these by heart would be a good idea. The 5 data types are: Number (All javascript numbers are floating point – meaning a 5 is actually 5.0); String: Any string of text. Boolean: True or False. Undefined: The default state of […]
In a previous post I mentioned Build Systems. Well now that I’ve played around with the command line I think I’m ready to dive right into exploring build tools and tackling my first project. I’ve decided to learn Gulp. 1. Watch Bucky Robert’s super quick Gulp tutorial. 2. Watch Scott Tolinski’s more in-depth Gulp tutorial. I […]
So I want to build websites. But I want to build websites like they are built in the real world. And after thinking that I knew HTML and CSS and was ready to go, I immediately hit a roadblock when I was informed that CSS was no longer written the traditional way. There’s a thing called SASS […]
To learn the command line I simply went to codecademy’s Learn the Command Line course and I went through it in half the advertised time. You wind up repeating a lot of commands but repetition is what Codecademy’s good at, and it works! Additionally, Scott Tolinski has a nice introduction to the command line on […]
Yeah. The command line. Or “Command Prompt”. Or (even worse) “The Terminal“. It sounds like something Darth Vader uses to destroy worlds, and it even looks like it does exactly that. But the sad fact is, you cannot claim to be a job-ready developer without it. This is because web development has evolved from banging out code straight […]
There are many, many, MANY sources to learn web development for free, but they are scattered across the web, which could confuse someone trying to put together a structured, well-organized learning path for web development. However, we are fortunate enough to be able to narrow the field down to several high quality sources for most of […]
I am the master of false-starts. I set out to do something and within the first week I second-guess myself and usually wind up back at the drawing board. This website is no exception. I still wish to conquer Javascript, but rather than limit my aspirations to javascript development I want to make this blog […]
