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!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…