Introduction If you’re like me, you love JavaScript. Yea, it’s not the perfect language but seriously, is there even such a thing as a perfect language?! So despite it’s flaws and all, I love programming on the web and how JavaScript enables me to build applications that…
What is Wanderawe? Wanderawe is a project that I recently completed with my Altitude Labs team and it focuses on providing travelers with a creative outlet to share their travel experiences through photography. For this project, we worked together with Yong Cong Choy, a photographer featured in National Geographic. He…
Introduction If you’re reading this post, I’m assuming you’re interested in JavaScript. It’s the lingua franca of the web and while its simple to start learning JavaScript because of its flexibility, this also makes it an easy language to form bad habits in your code. I…
Ghost is a blogging platform that has been gaining traction of late. It is fast, lightweight, open-source and focused on content publishing. The first question people often ask about Ghost is: how is this different from Wordpress? Here is a quick, bullet-point comparison: (Ghost vs. Wordpress) Blogging platform vs. blogging…
Introduction Have you ever wondered whether JavaScript has a native function for checking whether 2 values are deeply equal? Ok, well maybe you haven’t but in case you were wondering, unfortunately for us this function doesn’t exist natively in JavaScript. But luckily for us, even for the slightly…
My whirlwind tour at Hack Reactor is coming to an end and while I’ll reflect on that experience in a separate post, I want to talk about my last couple of weeks working at Famo.us ☺ Introduction As part of the Hack Reactor curriculum, we’re in contact with…
Chrome extensions are surprisingly easy to write once you understand how they work. They are pieces of HTML and Javascript which are glued together with a JSON file called manifest.json. This means you can use your favourite Javascript frameworks (e.g. Angular, Backbone, jQuery) when building them. If you…
Introducing Sieve, a search engine and visualizer for HKSE filings, that was borne from a two day hackathon at Hack Reactor. Sieve is built around a proprietary database of over 1,800 companies and 600,000 filings combined with Yahoo’s stock price API. The idea was to create a…