Brent

21 May 2015

React Native Intro - Presentation at OpenDNS in Vancouver

Video and slides from my presentation.
16 April 2015

React Native View Components (2/2)

Fixing a bug in SliderIOS by subclassing UISlider
16 April 2015

Packaging a React Native component

How to make your hard work shareable
10 April 2015

React Native View Components (1/2)

Explores the SliderIOS implementation to understand basic component wrapping techniques.
26 March 2015

Native Facebook login with React Native

RCTBridgeModule and NativeModules make this easy!
06 January 2015

Plain JS React Components in your Om app

tl;dr - just use it exactly as you would from JavaScript
20 December 2014

Stockholm syndrome - React and Angular

The negative reaction I had to React was visceral, at first.
14 December 2014

Style & Class Conference 2014

My notes from the conference that took place in Vancouver on December 13, 2014.
14 December 2014

Automatic snake_case <=> lowerCamelCase with ActiveModel Serializer

So you can stick to the conventions in Ruby and JavaScript and have it just work.
14 December 2014

Angular.js with Flux - Async Requests

Detailing some experimentation I have done using the Flux architecture pattern with Angular.js
11 December 2014

Startup scripts on OSX - dark dock, light toolbar

Learn how to use launchd/launch to write startup scripts, and make OSX Yosemite look prettier in the process.
26 November 2014

Using dotenv to manage sensitive information

Store API credentials such as Stripe and Amazon S3 securely in a local config file called .env with the help of a little gem.
26 November 2014

Recent animations obsession & notes about ngAnimate

Recently I've found myself extremely interested in animations. In this post I talk about my learning journey so far, and a bit about ngAnimate in Angular 1.3.
20 August 2014

Deploy a new Sails.js app to Heroku

It's not quite as easy as deploying a Rails app, but it's still easy.
04 June 2014

Just trying to be the best me

Running, gym, yoga, vegetarian diet, mental health
08 February 2014

Finally at Inbox Zero

And how you can get and stay there with Gmail
01 February 2014

ELI5 What does Brent do for a living?

ELI5 is an abbreviation used on Reddit which stands for Explain Like I'm Five.
01 December 2013

My first American Thanksgiving

And also my first car accident.
22 May 2012

Copy and paste in Tmux on OSX

How to move your Tmux copy buffer to the Mac OSX clipboard
01 February 2012

Learning at Mendicant University

About my experiences at the school during January, 2012.
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