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Apr 17, 2016

Directives, Transclusion, and Scoping, Oh My

Recently I had to learn some Angular to work on (and eventually build a scaled-down demo of) a work project. Having done most of my prior projects in Backbone and with most of my current focus on React, the Angular angle (heh heh) was a bit of uncharted territory. Nevertheless, always fun to learn something new, right?

Well, kinda.
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Dec 6, 2015

Interview Prep Resources

Now that my job hunt is over (and in fact I’ve been working for a week already!!!), I figure I should organize/share some of the helpful resources I accumulated over the course of interview prepping. There’s tons of lists like this out there but never hurts to add some more, and these are the ones that I have determined as most helpful (for me at least). A caveat is that there is a very strong focus on front-end stuff since that was what I was mostly interviewing for. So without further ado:
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Nov 5, 2015

Your Granny’s SHMUP

So in between tossing my book all over the Southwestern US, I was actually engaged in productive coding activity. Not so much in the single-page app vein this time though: I decided to modify my pretty poor excuse of an Asteroids game into something that actually resembled a game. Hence Bullet Hell, a SHMUP (shoot-em-up)!

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