Si

Si @devdrake0

About: Husband & Father. Founder, Owner, Lead Developer, Writer and Reviewer of Code Tips. Senior Full Stack Software Developer.

Location:
London
Joined:
May 23, 2019

Si
articles - 57 total

Value Receivers VS Pointer Receivers in Go

What is a Method? Before we start talking about Value Receivers and Pointer Receivers,...

Learn More 1 0Nov 29 '21

Debugging with delve

Learn how to use Delve to debug your Go applications and tests. What is delve? Delve is...

Learn More 4 0Nov 29 '21

Best programming audiobooks

I struggle to read books, the words dance around on the page which results in me skipping over whole...

Learn More 6 1Jun 16 '20

Binary to decimal converter

CodeTips strives to help beginners, with zero or very little experience, learn to code. We do cross-...

Learn More 10 0May 19 '20

Writing for CodeTips

CodeTips is not a Social Media platform like Dev, it's not an "open for everyone/everything" writing...

Learn More 11 0Jan 10 '20

Merry Christmas to all

A post by Si

Learn More 7 0Dec 25 '19

How To create a CRUD API, using Node.js and Express, on Ubuntu 18.04

CodeTips strives to help beginners, with zero or very little experience, learn to code. We do cross-...

Learn More 56 2Dec 28 '19

Two Sum

CodeTips strives to help beginners, with zero or very little experience, learn to code. We do cross-...

Learn More 9 0Dec 28 '19

Table Driven Tests

In this article, we’re going to discuss the table-driven test strategy in Go, although this could e...

Learn More 7 2Dec 16 '19

CodeTips is Changing

Today, we're happy to announce three important changes to CodeTips. No More Ads We'v...

Learn More 11 0Dec 2 '19

I don't code outside of work

I've been a developer for about 6 years now, and I love my job. I've found a decent company, an aweso...

Learn More 77 26Nov 30 '19

3065 followers

The last time I properly checked, I was on ~1000 followers, and I've just realised I've now surpassed...

Learn More 7 2Nov 23 '19

It's ok not to know everything

When I became a "professional" software developer around six years ago, I thought quite a lot about m...

Learn More 99 14Nov 12 '19

#help has had a makeover

The #help tag has real potential to become an area where developers can come to ask questions and hav...

Learn More 42 17Oct 16 '19

Let's make #help great again

The Dev mods have granted me moderation rights to #help, so I can try to keep the articles on-topic...

Learn More 6 2Oct 15 '19

The #help tag will die if it's not moderated

Sometimes, when I have 5 minutes of waiting for something to install/compile/run, I peruse the #help...

Learn More 7 8Oct 14 '19

What must we do to encourage more female coders?

I have become much more aware that the software engineering industry does not support female coders a...

Learn More 15 11Oct 11 '19

Real developers don't ask for help

You've probably been in this situation; you have been programming for years, but you still have to as...

Learn More 115 30Sep 22 '19

CodeTips first Open Source Project

CodeTips are proud to announce our first Open Source project, RSS-Twitter. Take one or more RSS feed...

Learn More 17 2Sep 18 '19

Fizz Buzz

CodeTips strives to help beginners, with zero or very little experience, learn to code. We do c...

Learn More 11 0Oct 9 '19

An introduction to Coding Challenges

CodeTips strives to help beginners, with zero or very little experience, learn to code. We do c...

Learn More 13 0Oct 9 '19

An interview with Kevin Ball

CodeTips strives to help beginners, with zero or very little experience, learn to code. We do c...

Learn More 5 0Oct 9 '19

Arrays and Loops in JavaScript

Before reading this article, you should have an understanding of arrays, types and loops. In "writ...

Learn More 10 0Aug 21 '19

No, you're not stupid!

Trying to start a community to help up-and-coming developers has reminded me of how I felt at the sta...

Learn More 131 45Jul 15 '19

Writing your first JavaScript programme

By the end of this article, you will have written a JavaScript programme that outputs a sentence bas...

Learn More 10 2Aug 21 '19

Structs in Go (challenge answer)

Warning: Challenge spoiler alert At the end of the “Structs in Go” article, we asked you to comple...

Learn More 7 0Aug 21 '19

Structs in Go

At the end of the Functions in Go article, we removed a good amount of duplicate code, but we still...

Learn More 12 0Jul 15 '19

Functions in Go (challenge answer)

Warning: Challenge spoiler alert At the end of the last article ( “Functions in Go” ) we asked you...

Learn More 6 0Jul 15 '19

Top FaaS Observability Platforms In 2019

Let’s take a walk down memory lane. The year is 2018, AWS Lambda is already kicking and securing it...

Learn More 4 1Jul 15 '19

Functions in Go

At the end of the Conditionals in Go article, we ended with a programme that prints your name, age,...

Learn More 8 0Jul 5 '19