Get Up and Running with the Essentials — Introduction I put together this quick, introductory tutorial workflow to help you to familiarize yourself with the Docker CLI. It doesn’t cover everything. There are several out-of-scope topics which will be covered in a follow-up Part II tutorial. Terminology Throughout this article you’ll hear about Docker Docker Hub images containers Docker Hub…

Put Them On The Right Path — Introduction First of all, a caveat — I’ve never been a line manager to a software engineer but have coached developers in previous roles in an informal way. I put together this article to identify five common problems that might be causing a developer to struggle in his/her performance, along with…

Raise PRs That Everyone Will Thank You For — Introduction You might think that NASA astronauts spend most of their time trying to break records for the longest spacewalk. Of course, you’d be wrong. The vacuum of space is fraught with dangers, so astronauts spend most of their time going through checklists — lots and lots of them. Checklists are…

Introduction Before we cover Planning Poker and the PlanITPoker application, let’s first recap how a sprint planning meeting works in a typical development team. In an Agile project, a sprint planning meeting is held to discuss backlog items that have been prioritized by the business. The backlog can have just about…

Create Long-Lasting Paintings With These Simple Steps — Introduction After working with canvases for some time, I’ve decided to focus on creating smaller abstract paintings on 6-inch square cradled wood blocks. Wood can be a wonderful surface to work on — it never ‘talks back’; unlike canvas, which gives way slightly as it stretches when applying paint. This flatness…

A Really Simple Guide — Introduction Before we start unit testing reducers, we’ll begin with a quick recap of NgRx reducers. Reducers in NgRx are responsible for transitioning your application from one state to the next. Reducer functions take care of these transitions by deciding which actions to do based on the type. Each reducer function…

A Pre-Interview Recap of TypeScript — Introduction This article helps you if you’re already familiar with TypeScript and you need to: Prepare for interviews, or Reacquaint yourself with the language after a period away from TypeScript e.g. moving from backend development to a front-end project. Each part consists of a “drill” that explores important operations of a…

A 2 Minute Recap of Finding Your Way Around JSON Objects — Introduction I created this super-quick, no-frills tutorial so that I can remind myself how to navigate JSON objects whenever I’m rusty on the details. Names of fields and values are kept as short as possible to minimize the amount of typing time. This tutorial is designed for software engineers who are…

A Step-by-Step Guide — Introduction Effects are where you manage things like requesting data, long-running processes that create several events, and other external interactions that your components don’t need to be aware of. Read more here. This tutorial shows you how to write unit tests for NgRx effects. Installation You can skip these steps if you…