November 25, 2022 in Learn
How To Add Custom Fields to a Custom Post Type in WordPress
WordPress has come a long way from its humble blogging beginnings. With the popularization of Custom Posts Types (CPTs), WordPress has emerged to become a fully-featured CMS platform. WordPress has evolved to be suitable for any kind of content you…
November 25, 2022 in Learn
How To Create Autocomplete Dropdowns with the Datalist Element
The <datalist> element is a new addition in the HTML5 specification. The <datalist> element allows developers to create native autocomplete dropdowns for their web applications. This type of user interface component is used on form fields and search boxes as…
November 25, 2022 in Learn
5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Coding Skills and Confidence
Starting out in the professional development arena is pretty daunting. I am self-taught and I don’t have a degree. Broaching my first full time position was pretty scary. What would the interviewer think? I thought I knew how to develop…
November 25, 2022 in Learn
Learn How To Store Data on The Client with LocalStorage
The LocalStorage API gives front-end web developers access to a simple key-value datastore that can be used to save data on a users computer. Saving data on the client-side can help to speed up the performance of your web applications…
November 1, 2022 in Career Advice
How to Become a Software Engineer [Complete Guide]
The demand for skilled experts in software engineering careers is on the rise and more people are searching for how they can break into the field. According to insights from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment rate for…
November 1, 2022 in Career Advice
Is React Worth Learning? 7 Reasons to Learn React
When you’re learning to become a front-end web developer, there comes a time when you’ll want to gain experience building web apps using a popular library or framework. But there are many front-end web technologies to choose from — including…
October 17, 2022 in Learn
JavaScript Basic Array Methods
Arrays are used to store a collection of multiple items under a single variable name. This collection could be things like strings, numbers, or even a mix of different data types. Sometimes we need to update or manipulate our arrays…
October 11, 2022 in Learn
Android vs. iOS Development: What to Focus on This Year?
Many coding students are understandably interested in learning mobile app development. But the mobile device market is split between Android and iOS, so how do you know which platform to focus on building apps for? In this post, you’ll discover…
October 11, 2022 in Learn
Treehouse vs. Udacity: Key Differences
Now that you’re ready to kickstart your coding career, what learning platform should you invest in — Treehouse or Udacity? Treehouse and Udacity are both popular online learning platforms for developers no matter your skill level. They contain several coding…
October 11, 2022 in Learn
Java vs. Python: Complete Guide
While Java and Python have both been around for decades, they’re still the programming languages of choice for many projects. In fact, a prominent source indicates Python and Java have been the second and third most popular languages behind JavaScript…
October 5, 2022 in Learn
JavaScript Emoji Selector
I’d like to show you how we can create an easy-to-use emoji selector for any website or application. We’ll use the browser’s built-in fetch API to connect to the open-emoji API to display a list of all emojis. If you’d…
August 23, 2022 in Learn
How to Build a JavaScript Search
Being able to search and/or filter through your website’s data is a great feature to implement for your users and setting it up isn’t as hard as you may think. It just requires a little bit of JavaScript. Today, I…