This week, as a precursor to learning React, I studied the virtual DOM and attempted to create my own virtual DOM using JavaScript objects. It was a great exercise to help me understand that React creates a virtual copy of the the browser’s Document Object Model (DOM) and uses this for manipulations before writing to the actual DOM, but I wasn’t entirely sure why is makes sense to do it this way. Continue reading
I just completed my first week of the Code Chrysalis Software Engineering Immersive. It has simultaneously been a blur and one of the longest weeks I’ve experienced in recent memory. Continue reading
Today was my first day of the Code Chrysalis Advanced Coding Bootcamp. The morning was filled with introductions and going over house rules. There was a good amount of defining how things are going to be over the next twelve weeks mixed with setting the expectation that we can’t really know what to expect.
Code Chrysalis begins before it actually begins. There is a very well structured pre-course that lists out topics to study, assigns homework, and there are even tests. Without giving away too many of their secrets let me just say that there is a lot of JavaScript in the pre-course. Continue reading
One of the things that drew me to Code Chrysalis, over some other coding bootcamps, is that they were clear from the beginning that there will be a lot of coding, but it isn’t all about coding. Continue reading
The truth about closures is out there. You can Google JavaScript closure and find several good youtube videos and a dozen or so articles that explain the concept reasonably well. I think I have watched and read them all and I think I understand what a closure is.
I have found that one of the best ways to understand something is to teach it. In trying to explain something to others you find the pieces that you skip over in your mind, but don’t really understand. I’m going to add to all those posts about closures on the internet – mostly for my benefit, but maybe it will help someone else too.
If someone had told me even a year ago that I would be buying a Mac I would have laughed. Continue reading
I have some news I have been wanting to blog about for some time – I’m moving to Tokyo.
This may seem like an odd space for this blog post, but I decided that this news affects my SQL Life as much as anything else. The short story is that my brilliant wife has been offered a job in Tokyo and we decided we couldn’t pass it up. I’ve shared the news with several people already, but after talking with my current employer I feel I can “go public.” We leave in about two months and the list of things we still need to accomplish is long, but will be worth it. If you know anyone in the SQL world or just IT in general that lives in Tokyo I am looking to make some connections.
With Ed’s #sqlnewblogger going on and lots of regular #tsql2sday folks there was a big turn out this month for the topic of teaching something new. In no particular order:
A Coding Journey 