✍🏽 Articles
My most recent articles can be found on dev.to.
- Oct 10, 2024
Rails World 2024: My Experience as a Speaker and Attendee
I recently returned from Rails World 2024 in Toronto, Canada, and it has easily been one of my favorite conferences to date. With a 25-hour flight back to Cape Town on Monday, I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on what made this event so special, both as a speaker and an attendee. - Dec 31, 2018
2018 reflections!
2018 is over. Already? I’ve never written a year end post, but writing this post has given me a way to reflect on the year and evaluate what I’d like to achieve in the new year. Hence, I thought I’d start this tradition and see how it goes. Here’s my highlights, challenges and learnings from 2018... - Jun 8, 2017
Part 1: Setting up a basic react app with create-react-app
I've been investing a lot of time recently in using React and I'd like to share with you how to build a simple react app from the basics. Since React does not follow strong setup conventions, there are many starter kits to assist in getting your first React app up and running... - May 28, 2017
Introduction to ember-cli-jstree
Recently, I'd been tasked with creating a sidebar. Sounds easy right? Wellllll not actually... let me elaborate.This particular sidebar contains the following challenges; It contains a nested ui and data structure, three levels deep to be exact and it requires ajax (or in my case Ember asynchronous calls) to three separate endpoints to receive the data... - Apr 4, 2015
Hey Developer! Up your time management game
To me, the most amazing feeling in the world is, when I create something, out of nothing, by using code. I feel utterly rewarded and fulfilled when I've been struggling with a problem, and finally that light dawns upon me after hours of hard work and discipline...