J Cole Morrison

J Cole Morrison

Hi, I'm Cole. I'm a Software and DevOps Engineer based out of Los Angeles, CA teaching what I know as I go! This is a log of my Tech Guides and Thoughts. Thanks for reading!


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How to Pick Your Next Idea

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I've been through 2 failed startups, a handful of failed ideas, and also serviced a variety of clients with "startup" ideas that failed. Suffice it to say, I'm quite experienced with failed ideas. Therefore I wanted to share some criteria that I'm using on…

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Angular

Building an Angular and Express App Part 1

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Updated: 2-5-2017 with edits for: Using Node version 6+ (6.9.5) Using the latest version of all included packages Using a proxy server to avoid having the express server watch our grunt project (and therefore continue to leverage livereload) Setting up html5mo…

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A Quick, Vital Tip for New MongoDB'ers

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This is aimed at people interested in the MEAN stack and have a need to sprinkle some relational functionality onto Mongo. If you need to do this USE MONGOOSE.JS. So this is pretty simple, but at first (especially if you haven't done a lot with databases) it…

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How I Setup Angular + Node Projects

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Update 2/5/2017: As stated below, I have another article that's goes through everything here in an up-to-date 2017 fashion. It's also far better written. Find it here: Building an Angular and Express App Part 1 Update: I've rewritten the article to be cleane…

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How I Fight Procrastination

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I keep seeing this topic pop up on Hacker News (you read it right?) and figured I'd share how I battle it. However, this is primarily aimed at developers/designers, but anyone can use it. First and for most... No corny motivational BS. I'm not saying it does…

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Yer a Hacker Harry!

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Every Time I See a Show with a Hacker... This is what I think. The more you know about it, the more you know how "unmagical" it is and can be. It's as if "hacking" has become a modern day accepted Deus Ex Machina. I wouldn't mind the whole HackWorts thing sh…

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A Pavlovian Approach to Learn Coding

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So, when I say "function" what do you think of? I think of pretzels, chips and salsa, pasta, and ... well ... my mouth starts to salivate. Strings, variables, arrays, and objects just make me think "mmmm yummy." When I first started coding, it was an uphill…