Joe Avila

Contribute to open source they said, it's a great way to break into tech they said. A lot...

While working on a project I needed to get some information out of the URL in the browser. Using the...

Recently at work I got the opportunity to write Behavior Driven Development tests using Cucumber.js....

Recently, I have been learning about inheritance and the prototype chain. If you have read my posts y...

In javascript, you have access to this keyword at any time. Unless there are certain conditions met t...

Calling a function in Javascript creates a new execution context, and when that is created so is a sc...

Hoisting variables and function declarations in Javascript happens when the variable object is create...

If you've written any code in Javascript, you've interacted with the execution context and execution...

Algorithms are something I struggle with. A few of the interviews or screening processes for companie...

Algorithms have been a struggle for me to learn. I don't particularly enjoy them (until I solve them)...

I'm building a stat tracking site for my local basketball league using a Rails API. I started with a...

If you're from the US, you may be familiar with the old saying, Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally or P...

My local basketball league is currently using free software that has shortcomings and is littered wit...

I am in week 9 of a 15 week coding course. The past two months have been a flurry of labs, assignment...

While I'm writing code, I have to constantly remind of scope. The scope of my variables, the scope of...

Recently I've been working with forms and Active Record a lot. I was struggling with associating an o...

My road to Flatiron began near the end of 2019. I applied in September, but enrollment didn't happen...