Sam Markham articles - 16 total
Project planning for a React/Rails Writing Challenge app
Last April I built an app for a novel contest run by an online writers group. It was set up so users...
Getting started in Preact (by rebuilding a React app)
A few weeks ago, after reading through the Preact docs, I decided to make a version of my React writi...
Building a writing prompt generator with functional React
As well as a dev, I’m a fiction writer, and sometimes I run out of ideas for what to write. A couple...
6 things I learned from building my first app for a client
Recently I built my first app for a client. A friend of mine who runs a novel-writing contest had me...
Vertical project planning for a Vanilla JavaScript/Rails app
When I was building my PokéTeamBuilder JavaScript/Rails API app, one suggestion I heard from my bootc...
A social media strategy for folks afraid of social media
I'm not sure why, but I really don't like posting things on social media. I find the idea of it stres...
6 things I learned from my first mock technical interview
Since finishing my software engineering bootcamp at Flatiron School last month, I've spent the bulk o...
Follow-up: deploying Forgot/Reset Password (React/Rails app)
(originally posted May 22, 2020) In my recent post on forgot/reset password functionality, I explore...
Deploying a React (with Redux)/Rails app with Netlify/Heroku
(originally posted May 15, 2020) My final Flatiron School project was made for use by an online nove...
Forgot/Reset Password functionality with Rails and React (and Redux)
(originally published May 6, 2020) For my final project with Flatiron School, I have been building a...
Changing attributes on a user in Rails without having to re-enter password
(originally published on May 5, 2020) This is something that first came up for me during my Rails pr...
Dealing with overlapping reducers in Redux
(originally published April 25, 2020) My final project for Flatiron School got a lot more complicate...
Dragging images with mousemove in JavaScript
(originally published February 22, 2020) After reaching a certain point in learning JavaScript, I kn...
Creating two resources 'at once' in Rails
(originally published December 14, 2019) For my Rails project for Flatiron, the thing that stumped m...
Making exceptions to ActiveRecord’s auto-pluralization
(originally published October 11, 2019) For my first web app using Sinatra and ActiveRecord, I decid...
Scraping a complicated website for my CLI application
(originally published August 9, 2019) When it came time to make my first application using Ruby, I k...