by Justin | Nov 2, 2015 | Code
Many years ago, when I was still a student in High School, I enrolled in a summer program for Computer Science. I had taken a few Computer Science courses previously, but they were all about learning programming languages. This was the first where we learned real...
by Sourcetoad | Sep 21, 2015 | Code, Web Application Development
Yii is an amazing framework. As it has been iterated on version 2 is now out and is quickly picking up adoption. With this comes the need to migrate components, modules, and a whole slew of other logic. This blog is a few pointers that we picked up along the way while...
by Sourcetoad | Sep 15, 2015 | Code
“Write a blog post” they said, “It will be fun.” Okay, then, let’s talk about code standards. This is something we’ve been discussing internally for quite some time; writing up a set of standards that we could use as a company to keep our code consistent...
by Sourcetoad | Jul 31, 2015 | Code, Web Application Development
6 (ES6) introduces some new features that improve upon ECMAScript 5 (ES5) scoping. In this post we’re going to look at arrow function scope, block scope, and two new ways to declare variables in ES6. A solution to ‘var self = this’ A common situation in javascript is...