kan = “visual” ban = “card” What is Kanban? Kanban has become known as an agile methodology, however, its origins stem from a time when the term ‘Agile’ hadn’t even been coined. It was first inspired in Japan in the 1940s. Taiichi Ohno, who is deemed the father of Kanban and Lean Manufacturing, saw that […]
Having worked for my current employer now for almost 12 years it’s safe to say I’ve grown up with the organisation. I started my journey at Vertu Motors as their sole front end developer within the IT department, working on their website and internal systems such as the CRM/deal optimiser system. Overtime I focused more on […]
In 2020 I decided that I wanted to practice the habit of reading more. I loved reading as a teenager – then it became something that I would only do at work or on holiday. Throughout the last couple of years, I have consumed a lot of books via Audible and decided to treat myself […]
Command Line Options code . Opens Visual Studio Code (in the current folder). code filename.extension (-r) Opens a specific file (or creates a specific file if it is not already present) within the current window. This also works for folders. code filename.extension -n Opens a specific file (or creates a specific file if it is […]
Angular type examples when using feature.type.ts naming conventions: Module Groups related components, services, directives and pipes together. Component The core building blocks of your application. Controls a portion of the screen. Components can be made up of other components. The selector is the tag name that you add to your webpage. The template is the HTML […]
I’ve recently been carrying out interviews as we are expanding our team at Vertu Motors and I’ve realised that in the world of web development there is still no right or wrong way to do things and a never ending list of different IDEs, methodologies, approaches to projects and ways to execute the same task. […]
AngularJS is what HTML would have been had it been designed for building web applications. Features Magical two-way data binding (HTML being the view simple JavaScript variables being the model) Provides a solid structure for client side applications Routing Support – AngularJS was built for single page web applications Templating – AngularJS uses plain old HTML […]
The new way to define variables var = “something”; is becoming a thing of the past. The new ways to define variables are: const – use this when the variable your are assigning is a constant – i.e. the value won’t change throughout your project. let – generally use this if you are scoping a […]
Recently I came across an issue in webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari but not Firefox) in one of my apps, basically the fields which had a type of number were empty in these browsers. After debugging it appears that if there is a space in the value of a number field the browser doesn’t display anything. The […]
Just a very quick post (and to be honest a bit of a really simple one) but if I’ve made the mistake I’m sure others out there will and this blog is designed to give a little back to the industry so here goes. Recently I added a little animated prompt to the Bristol Street […]