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Interesting Code Flowcharting Technique

1/18/2016

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This is a really cool, simple method for sketching out what you want your code to do. I came across this flowcharting method from page 23 of the great book “Javascript and JQuery” by Jon Duckett (screenshots below). He describes the motivation for them like this:

“Often scripts will need to perform different tasks in different situation. You can use flowcharts to work out how the task fit together. The flowcharts show the paths between in step.”

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Customize Your Linkedin URL

1/11/2016

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As it turns out I'm looking for a new job right now, and I'm working on my resume. I wanted to make a section of the header in my resume so that you could easily click to different sites of mine: twitter, github, and linkedin. The problem was that my linkedin url looked something like this:
www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-lynch/22/814/63a/

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"Structs", The Cool Special Classes in Swift

1/10/2016

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I'm just getting into Swift. I was reading a book Teach Yourself Swift in 24 Hours by BJ Miller at the local bookstore, and I came across the concept of structs, a special keyword in Swift that you can use in place of the class keyword. I had never heard of this before, so it was interesting to see this new programming weapon that's available in Swift. Here's the difference between the two:
Structs are value types and classes are reference​ types. 

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What the Heck is a Bootstrap (in Angular.js)?

1/10/2016

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There were various reasons why I avoided Javascript in the past, but when I finally did decide to get serious I was coming from actionscript, java, and other languages with eclipse editors, special library files, and a basic manual process for extending the api that's available in your code. For example, in actionscript 3 if you want to add a third party library you would download the swc file and add it in the build path of your project. Then the imports and code completion for the new library work like magic. In javascript it's a little different.
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This a boot strap, but it's not the type of bootstrap we're talking about here.

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Welp, I've Enrolled in the Egghead Academy.

1/10/2016

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This post is about the site egghead.io, which is a video training website about mostly javascript and angular but also some advanced and obscure javascript topics. I was looking for this exact training. I really wanted to learn Angular 1 and 2. I was also interested in everything javascript, what exactly gulp was (and how to use it), and of course server scripts with node. If you are into these things too, beware! Although I like this site a lot and it's awesome training, you might end up spending more time and money here than you originally planned!

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