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If you've made the switch from SQL to NoSQL, you've probably started to dabble into Mongoose population as a means to make up for the lack of table joins. This, unfortunately, is one area where NoSQL databases fall short of their SQL counterpart. Mongoose population can be tricky to setup.
If you've followed us up until now, you've probably found nano a bit frustrating to work with. That's where Visual Studios Code comes in to make your life a bit easier. VS Code is a powerful coding text editor that helps you write software, work the command line, and more.
Civic Projects
A super simple and minimal ghost starter theme using Bootstrap. Ghost is world's most popular modern open source publishing platform. This starter theme is developed to help organizations create customized blogs using Ghost and Bootstrap.
As you begin to develop apps, chrome developer tools will quickly become your best friend! Chrome lets you to inspect any front end code that's running on your browser. This is super helpful for developing and troubleshooting your own sites, as well as figuring out how other sites work. Prerequisites
Git is an essential tool for developers that you'll want to become proficient with. It tracks and manages just about everything you code, making it really easy to review the history of your app, and to collaborate with team mates. GitHub is also very important, as it pretty much is
One of the earliest essential skills for programmers is to know and be proficient with the command line interface. Getting started with the command line interface feels a lot like learning to ride a bike for the first time. You will get super frustrated, but please stick with it, as
After a long and load day of coding at the coffee shop, I finally broke down and got a pair of wireless earbuds. What I needed: noise cancelling, not too expensive, comfortable earbuds with the freedom to be wireless. An hour of Amazon searching later, and I finally went for
Learn To Code
Congratulations on the start of your journey! FYI, this is hardly meant to be a professional class in learning how to code, and is more just one hacker's unconventional guide, especially in areas I wish I had taught myself sooner. Who this is for: * People with an intense desire to
Civic Projects
Therapists Beyond Borders is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization on a mission to create a sustainable difference in communities that need therapy services abroad. Responsibility, Affordability, and Sustainability are at the core of everything that they do. Therapists Beyond Borders takes great care in selecting partner sites, and teaming
Tutorials
This article shares a brief tutorial for how to save web page as PDF with NodeJs. We will be using the Puppeteer [https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer] headless chrome browser to pull the web page on a Node server and convert it to PDF. Big thanks to the Chrome DevTools
Civic Projects
We thought it would be interesting to start off the new year with a new civic hacking project. OC Alerts is a gamified crime visualization web app that shows current crime calls. Data is being pulled from the @OCSD_Bot twitter account (not affiliated with OCSD). View the demo website
Chromebook
A fast and simple guide for getting WordPress running locally on a Chromebook using XAMPP.