The Factory Pattern In continuation of my previous blogs on Design Patterns we come to the Factory pattern. As a quick reminder design patterns are solutions created for commonly found problems. The Factory pattern is a creational pattern meaning that it is a best practice for how to create an…

Builder As I discussed in a previous blog Design Patterns are commonly found ways to approach specific problems. Today I bring to you the Builder design pattern, one of the creational type design patterns. …

Let’s talk about Flex baby! Let’s talk about my website and me. I have not been good about really trying to learn more CSS on my path of growth as a Software developer. However, I was having some problems with my Portfolio site not quite rendering how I wanted it…

Singleton, Part 1 Recently I had a senior developer point out the gaps in my knowledge in Computer Science and Javascript. One of the questions he asked me if I knew what were Design Patterns. I stopped like a deer in headlights wondering what he meant, I couldn’t even really…

Making your Repo’s ReadMe better No this blog is not going to go over how to fill your Github Repo pop with Markdown tips and tricks. I’m going to go over the essential element of these readme’s and that’s explaining how to use your code. To be fair, I’ve not…

My first experience in a fresh software team Take a second and think of the first team you may have been asked to be part of. Maybe it was in a junior sports team that your parents forced you into, maybe you were forced to create a team in kindergarten…

Using an Algo Question to explain it So earlier this week I’ve attended multiple different Algo Clubs and tutorials. One of which taught me about recursion and similar patters that go along with them. The problem we went over was Given a number n, count minimum steps to minimize it…

A simple explanation I know that I’ve run into issues with CORS but I didn’t quite understand what it was. One of the first times I ran into this issue is when I set up Rails as a Web App but not as an API, so when my Frontend was…

“If you can’t code, you’re illiterate” ? A few days ago I joined a Software Developer Social and as we were all trying to get over our social anxiety someone said “In the future, coding will be just as important as reading. If you can’t do it you’ll be considered…