Tag: development
I made a thing – Colour Game
I made another thing in JavaScript as part of the course I’m doing. This time it’s a simple colour picker game. The code is still very rough but the app is effectivly working. If you want to see it in action you can play the current version. The idea of the game is the player…
Commitment issues
You’ve been spending plenty of time together. You’ve had your ups and downs. As time’s gone on you’ve realised you like the way things are going and it’s time to commit. Writing effective, communicative commit messages can make the world of difference to other members of your team. Just as with code comments or clear…
Every team needs a beauty routine
Over the years everyone will develop their own beauty routines when it comes to their individual coding. While it’s easy to become attached to how you like to format your code, in a team environment it’s really important to share the mirror with teammates. Having an agreed set of standards on how the code will…
More on issues
The more you understand an issue the better equipped you’ll be to solve it. When I was creating issues in GitHub for Score Keeper, something about the process felt a bit lacking. A developer needs specific details and the system wasn’t working to deliver them. Even the issues I’d submitted lacked the detail for someone…
We’ve all got issues
Since I’ve been learning JavaScript I’ve been making an effort to do things as if I was working with others. The idea being that any project of meaning is very likely a collaborative one. To my mind understanding how to effectively work with others on a coding project is as important as the coding itself.…
I made a thing – Score keeper
I’ve been doing a web development course for a few months and today I made my first thing that actually does something. Nothing amazing mind you, but it’s a start. Do you ever have the need to keep score in a best 2 out of 3 kind of way? Me neither, but here’s a web…
Learning from a 579-year-old printing press
Gutenberg is the name of WordPress’ new editor and like its namesake, the Gutenberg printing press, I think it’s going to be a big deal. Recently I’ve been committing real time to upskill in web development. I wanted to go way outside my comfort zone as an opportunity to grow. So contributing to an open-source…
Listen to your heart
JavaScript is responsible for the behaviour of your website/app. At the heart of affecting the behaviour of the page is listening for user interaction events. These are things like button clicks, key presses and drags and drops. To do this, first we select an element then we add an event listener. To add an event…
DOM DOM DOM
Playing with the DOM is all about adding interactivity to your page. The DOM (Document Object Model) is the interface between your JavaScript and your HTML+CSS. The browser takes all the elements of your page and turns it into a JavaScript object. All the elements of the DOM for your page are contained in the…