I’ve recently been brushing up on my JavaScript skills by using different online resources and books. The first time I learned JavaScript, was during an intense coding Bootcamp, where we had 2 weeks to learn as much as we could. In the 3rd week, we had to complete a project…

In the last 12 months, we have seen the most difficult job market in U.S. history. The pandemic caused millions of people to be furloughed or permanently lose their jobs, with some industries having such significant impacts to how they do business in the future. These include hospitality, transportation, arts…

I only recently transitioned into Software Engineering a few months ago, but I’ve already seen the copious benefits that my sales background has provided me in this new programming world. Saying I did “sales” can be general, so to be a tad more specific, I was in sales and marketing…

Even though an NBA team has five starters, for the purposes of explaining the power-players of Ruby enumerable methods, we have four starters. These four are the most powerful and useful enumerable mixins of the group. So, what does the NBA have anything to do with a Ruby enumerable? …

Prior to hooks, we could only use state or life-cycle methods in class components. However, now with hooks, React gives us functions like useState, useEffect, useContext, useRef, and so on, which gives additional functionality within a function component. We can essentially “hook into” React features like we would in class…

From Fetch API, to useEffect and Axios — Lately, I’ve been trying to expand my data fetching abilities as I work on different projects. There are actually many ways to fetch API data. In this blog, I will go over the simplest way, such as using the Fetch API, then go through the useEffect() way of doing it…

With my very first blog post at the beginning of my Software Engineering Bootcamp journey, I wrote about Ruby’s most common iterator methods: .each, .map, .select and .find. We called these four, the “Starting Four,” of the Ruby team, and deservedly so. They are the most powerful and useful methods…

The moment I learned about validations while learning Ruby on Rails, I “reminisced” about the good-ole days when I worked in hotel sales, and dealt with the data from our sales CRM software. I didn’t have bad habits as a sales manager per se, typically filling out contact information, event…

Have you ever struggled to understand a challenging problem, topic or fully grasp a complex concept? Have you read the material word for word, and then, later on, realize that you can’t even remember what you just read? …