One recent incident led me to think of another that led me back to some profound words by a previous supervisor “If it was easy, we wouldn’t need you Fernando”. I think those words came after he thought I was complaining about how hard the current problem was. I spent more than a few good […]
Recently I had to take a multi-select box and use the values selected from it to filter in, not sure that’s a term, the records according to the values selected in the box. Not to bog you down with the details, but basically let’s say you have two lists of. Let’s call the first list […]
Earlier this week I was tasked with a user story to create a react component that had additional data that could be expanded and collapsed. I found a component within the organization that had the name react-grid. Like most projects I decided to begin putting things together one small piece at a time. The first […]
Recently a friend of mine mentioned in one of his blog posts that he found it difficult to explain a callback to a non-techie or “to someone with no technical knowledge”. Callbacks are very common and they have picked up a lot of steam lately because most languages make heavy use of them. I’ve read […]
Today I ran into an interesting problem. I have an endpoint that looked something like this http://mydomain.com/my/api/interesting-dynamic-token/widgets The interesting dynamic token gets replaced with an actual identifier value from the system. The token is an identifier in regular text that helps find the item on the back end. Everything worked smoothly until with every item, […]
Recently I tutored someone that needed help with “HTML”. I put the quotes around HTML because once I learned more about what they were trying to accomplish, I learned that it involved more than HTML. They required PHP. It’s been a few years since I touched anything PHP. So I had to get set up. […]
Sometimes we learn something later in life only to realize that it was put in our ears a long time ago. Take the story of the Tortoise and the Hare for example. The moral of the story is that consistent work pays off over pure talent. Consistency is key to anything. Ask any business owner […]
There is an old saying in Spanish “Bueno Bonito y Barato” it translates to English as “Good Appealing and Cheap”. We live in a day and age where our attention spans have decreased. We are bombarded with stories of overnight success. It is also well known that the 3 B’s are rarely attainable. It reminds […]
If you asked my high school English teacher what I would be doing in 20 or 30 years, it is unlikely that she would mention anything remotely related to writing. But today, here I am, by definition, a writer. After all, a writer writes. I hated writing throughout all of my pre-college years. What made […]
We all hate it or at least dread the idea of going to tech interview to be grilled about what we know. Who wants to show up for an interview and be grilled on programming questions or even worse, be asked to solve tough problems on a whiteboard. As much as we hate the process, […]
