Medicine.js I recently interviewed at a fin-tech startup for a Software Engineer role (mainly front end React). I really liked the CTO and could see their product being a success. I was feeling good. Then came the technical questions. I fumbled the answers to Object Oriented Programming, Functional Programming, and Core JavaScript questions. Dazed, the pair […]
LevelUp – lessons learned and monetisation Technical lessons learned Let’s start with a technical review of the project LevelUp. You can think of this as part 3 with part 1: OAuth 2 and part 2: Building a MEAN foundation. Things I learned Angular Filters Controllers Services and Factories – reusable interface with backend Directives – creating usable HTML components Dependency Injection Integrating Angular components […]
LevelUp is live I’ve been working on an app called LevelUp over the past couple of months. I’m pleased to announce that it’s available to the public over at https://levelupapp.herokuapp.com LevelUp ties goal to action, ambition to accountability, progress to measurement, and the person you want to be to the person you are. It’s free and anyone can use it. First 5 minutes […]
Building a MEAN foundation I spent some time developing an app with Angular at its heart. The app’s called MEANT, which stands for Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node Template – the idea of the template app was to develop a foundation, or a skeleton app, which I could use to bootstrap apps developed in the future. Some of the features […]
OAuth 2: the gatekeeper I was looking for a way of handling user authentication in Node. Passport.Js looked to be the forerunner via local login strategies. Social sign in caught my eye, I personally like the user experience and use of it often so I decided to explore it. Taking a look under the hood, social sign in relies on OAuth, this is […]
MongoDBx: M101x Introduction to MongoDB using the MEAN Stack For those considering taking the MongoDB using the MEAN stack course on edX by MongoDB university I’ve provided my review of the course having just completed it. This is a copy of what I posted on the course’s forum. Folks, having just completed this course (and shared the certificate on LinkedIn) I thought I’d offer […]
