John Headland | Professional Portfolio

20 Oct 2016

Meteor is an interesting web application framework. It’s powerful, and I really like the client/server interactions with Mongo databases as well as the instant updates. However, I don’t like the initial difficulty. There was a lot to learn about Meteor,...

Meteor

19 Oct 2016

Overview Magic the Gathering is the most popular trading card game in the world, first published by Wizards of the Coast in 1993. There are various formats in competitive play with large cash prize pools for professional tournaments. Decks can...

Meteor

ICS 314

Final project

06 Oct 2016

UI frameworks are the bee’s knees. You get a lot of return and reward for taking the time to learn them. Rather than just use raw HTML and CSS, you can use the different aspects of certain UI frameworks to...

UI frameworks

Semantic UI

13 Sep 2016

Configuration management, or version control, is a fantastic concept and tool for software development. Not only does it allow solo developers to work on projects from anywhere with an internet connection and distribute their open-source software, it allows teams to...

Git

version control

configuration management

13 Sep 2016

I think coding standards can help the open-source community by making source code easier to read, and thus, easier to contribute to. It’s obvious that if everyone conformed to one standard, then collaborating on a project would be much smoother...

coding standards

ESLint

08 Sep 2016

In the open source community, asking smart questions is a great boon to everyone. Not only does the person asking the question benefit, people who might encounter a similar problem or have the same question do as well. When people...

Open source software

Community

StackOverflow

04 Sep 2016

Software Engineering is both a class and a topic that I’m excited to get into. Honestly, I don’t really know what “software engineering” is, as it seems pretty general. However, I’m eager to learn and truly understand professional software development/engineering....

Software Engineering

Learning

01 Sep 2016

JavaScript is an interesting language, and I think it’s okay. This class is my first real exposure to it. I’ve heard about the language through my peers and work (at DevLeague, which has it’s main source of income as a...

JavaScript

Learning