You may have seen a variation of “embraces Lean methodology” or “familiar with Lean development” on Software Engineering job postings. What does that exactly mean? The term Lean Software Development originated from a book authored by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck. …

Objects consist of key and value pairs. A key can be a string or symbol and a value can be any type. There might be instances where you want to sort your object by key or value. However, there are no in-built JavaScript methods to sort object properties.

If you are a new to coding, it’s highly possible you’ve heard of Javascript. It is one of the most popular language used today. To put it simply, Javascript is a language which creates interactive web pages. Typescript was developed, as a typed subset to Javascript, to fill the gap…

Big O Notation is a mathematical expression of the relationship between input size and the time in relation to that input. In other words, it classifies algorithms depending on how they respond to the input size. It’s a basic system of generalizing code and its performance to other code. …

A palindrome is a sequence (such as a word or combination of letters/numbers) that can read the same backwards and forwards. Writing a function which determines whether an input is a palindrome is one of the most common white-boarding question that an interviewer may ask. There are many ways to…

Agile methodology in software development implements collaboration between self organizing cross functional teams. Agile methods encourages teamwork, accountability, and flexibility which allows for fast delivery for end users. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development is based on twelve principles. Customer satisfaction by early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Welcome…

React, developed by Facebook, is a front end Javascript library for building user interfaces. Many large companies currently use React in production such as Netflix, Instagram, Airbnb, and Reddit just to name a few. React’s popularity has grown since its official release in 2013 and it is currently one of…

In Javascript, it can be difficult to access specific data in HTML by traversing the Document Object Model and using that data in your Javascript functions. Introducing, datasets. Dataset is a read-only property of the HTML interface that provides access to all the custom data attributes set on the element…

Ruby on Rails has a series of form helpers that can be used for specific database records. We know about text_field for text input and number_field for numeric input. But we can do so much more! These helpers have different uses for specific cases of user input. I’ll be reviewing…