# Take Responsibility
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Taking responsibility for your actions is something you get told to do as a kid. When you break something, yet lie to your mother’s face even though she saw you do it, your young mind thinks you can…
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# Finish what your start
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During the week I had to create some Elixir GraphQL schemas that involved date times. How hard could that be, I’ve already done extensive work with Elixir and GraphQL, what’s so hard about date…
# GraphQL Queries with Node
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Today I wanted to show you how you would build a very simple NodeJS backend complete with GraphQL. This will be more of an intro to GraphQL and it makes it easy to use something like Node as most…
# Basic Unit Testing In Elixir
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One thing that every programmer must do is test their code. Many languages have ways of testing them, some hard to use some easy to use.
# Think about the whole stack
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Software engineers are usually divided into two groups, backend and frontend. Sometimes you will have people that are full-stack but for the most part, they are either one or the other.
# Time and Goals
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I don’t strictly write down my goals and maybe I should but I’m not here to tell you to do something unless I, at the very least do it myself. Goal setting is more than just important, it’s vital,…
# Be Humble
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The hallmark of a great leader is someone who can extract a greater output than the sum of a teams parts. Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs is the hallmark of a humble leader.
# Don’t Rush
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The worst code I ever wrote was when I was rushing. As a junior I did a lot of stupid things, I wrote some horrible code, I didn’t test database migrations properly which ultimately broke a…
# Setting up Firebase with Firestore, Authentication and React
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Following along from my previous post about Google Cloud Platform I wanted to touch on Firebase. If you’re a mobile developer by trade you’re probably very familiar with it, however, if your new to…
# Google Cloud Platform
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Everyone’s heard of AWS, most people have also heard of Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) but having used all three in a limited fashion, I have fallen in love with GCP. AWS as most people can…