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React Native: Lessons from First App
June 18, 2017
React is pretty easy to get into and the community tends to encourage intelligent design principles for highly reusable code. Coming from a background in Ionic and Xamarin, I had high standards for what a cross-platform solution needs to provide to get me usin
Renaming React Native Apps
May 10, 2017
I am recently getting into the React framework (let's be real, it's barely a library) and using React Native. I'm not interested in starting flame wars, before this I thoroughly enjoyed using Angular and Ionic. React does seem to be easier to get up and runnin
Switching to a Static Website
September 27, 2016
So if you've ever looked at this blog in recent history you might find things have changed just a bit. The change is a lot more than a theme, my blog is now a static website. A static website serves content exactly as it's stored on the server (e.g. this blog
Death to the Buzzword, Long Live Development
March 17, 2016
There was a time last year that you saw the word ICT every other week or so in the newspapers. Even before elections where it's expected that whoever is in government inappropriately uses funds for "projects" as a form of pseudo-campaigning and paying off frie
Tail Tales
December 26, 2015
Not too long ago I found myself in a little jam using the tail command. I needed to keep tabs on a log file which would be archived and emptied when it reaches a certain size. Since the script I was writing would need all the contents that was logged and not o
To App, or not to App? That is not the Question
November 7, 2015
This rant is primarily for Trinidad and Tobago, but I'm sure it applies to other locations. (Lovely) Person: So what do you do? Me: I'm a software developer/programmer/coder/blah Person: So you make mobile apps, right? The last question is usually followed by
Of Context, Animations and Pong
August 26, 2015
Hello people of good testing habits, thought I'd share with you some simple errors that could come your way if you're not careful with JavaScript. I'm getting to get to grips with the canvas element, starting with some basic 2D animations. What better way to d
My First Startup Weekend TT - Improving Lives
June 20, 2015
Just about to take it easy from some long weeks at work, I got a call from my friend Abigail on a fateful Friday afternoon. "Coming Startup Weekend?". I was really tired but a bit curious from all the others I've missed. "Yeah, pick me up". And that's why I ca
YoPro & Caribbean Ideas Hackathon 2015
May 24, 2015
Yesterday I took part in a quick fire hackathon hosted by YoPro and Caribbean Ideas. I was one of five developers who sat down for roughly eight hours to tackle our nation's waste problem. A recent documentary by National Geographic stated that Trinidad and To
Error After Error Installing Ubuntu Desktop on 12.04 Server Edition
April 20, 2015
While configuring a VM with Ubuntu Server 12.04, I thought I should put a GUI for other users (and fine, myself too). Yea I know it's not the latest version of Ubuntu but Precise is perfect for what's going to be hosted on it and it's a Long Term Support (LTS)