So you want to learn a thing about your favorite, new technology? For me, this often leads to googling a general phrase to begin with which points me towards a bunch of tutorials. Then I have to look through these tutorials quickly to determine which ones hold the most value for my goal. Quickly skim the content but only pay attention to the code samples. This is an opportunity to filter tutorials that are teaching...

I’ve been learning Go for a couple of months and have accumulated a ton of bookmarks and links on the subject. Recently I decided to prune through those and figure out which ones I found the most helpful when getting started. Below are some of my favorites that helped me in a wide variety of topics from completely getting started, to understanding some of the more complex topics specifically related to the most powerful features...

Earlier this week a friend was talking about wanting to learn how to program and a project he wanted to complete. The basics of his idea are to get DFS lineups for contests, parse the data, calculate some frequency statistics and output that new information. Since I’m fairly new to developing applications and excited to learn more, I thought it would be fun to attempt this using NodeJS (a language I’ve never really used). While...

This is the third of a three part series about the insights I gained while building my first AngularJS application using Ruby on Rails in the back-end. This particular post is about setting up the front-end templates and interacting with the Rails back end using Angular factories. There are almost certainly better ways to do some of these things, but this is how I did it and what I learned. After the last blog post,...

This is the second of a three part series about the insights I gained while building my first AngularJS application using Ruby on Rails in the back-end. This particular post is about hooking up Angular to the Rails API. There are almost certainly better ways to do some of these things, but this is how I did it and what I learned. In the last section I provided an example of how a single controller...