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Meet The Board: Christina Morillo

Christina Morillo is a technologist at Microsoft, combining almost two decades of experience in information technology operations and process development/implementations with an expertise in...

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Have you met Mark? Head of Mentorship

Mark Locklear is a web developer at the eXtension Initiative and has 20 years of IT experience including network administration, quality assurance, and software development. He is an Adjunct Instructor...

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Meet The Board: Chris M. Christi

Chris Christi brings more than 20 years experience in Information Technology to his current role at Thales Defense and Security, Inc. working with Department of Defense clients on data security...

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Meet The Board: Kyle Shevlin

Kyle is a senior software engineer at Webflow, working to democratize software engineering through visual & no code development. He's the host of the Second Career Devs, a podcast devoted to...

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Meet The Board: Alex Reyes

Alex Reyes is a 13 year Air Force Veteran with expertise in logistics, program management, and human resources. He is currently serving on the Recruiting Operations team at Facebook focused on the...

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Code Bootcamp Tips for Rookies

We have a new cohort starting at #VetsWhoCode and it got me to thinking of some of the things I've seen over the last five years and how to best set the newbies up for success, so I started sharing...

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Dealing With 'No'

How to deal with rejection As a lifelong nerd and self-taught web developer, I've had a long time to get used to rejection, whether it be in my personal life, applying for a job, or submitting a PR to...

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Setting up a Linux Javascript Dev Environment on Windows

By default I am usually a Linux user. But recently I have started a cohort with Vets Who Code and we have some Windows users in there. Windows does a lot of things well; setting up development...

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My Top Five FrontEnd VSCode Plugins

I have been using Microsofts Visusal Studio Code everyday for the past few months. I have installed it multiple times on Linux and Windows. There are five plugins I always install immediately. I...

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Computer Science and fighting to learn AVL Trees

The reason for this post is that I've been working through teaching myself computer science topics and I felt like this data structure was unnecessarily difficult. I would like to share my findings in...

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JavaScript Ternary Operator

In my learning of 'Control Flow' in JavaScript I ran into the Ternary Operator (or Condtional Operator). I find these to be just to cool not to write a little about them. The Ternary Operator is a real...

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Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

I've been a pretty heavy Linux user for over 15 years now. I have all the badges, Gentoo installs, Arch install, I have compiled my own kernel, used Debian, Redhat before Fedora existed, Slackware,...

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Windows JS Dev in WSL Redux

Back in September I did a post on setting up a JS dev environment in Windows using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Quite a bit has changed in the past couple months so I think we need to revisit and...

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My Favorite Oh-My-Zsh theme

I wanted to put this in my JS setup post, but I decided themes really were more a personal preference and not a necessary part of the whole scheme. But I did want to share. So my favorite Oh-My-Zsh...

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Quick and Dirty Ubuntu JavaScript Setup

So I did this for Windows and the WSL here. If we rip everything referring to Windows out, it's the same setup on regular Ubuntu.So I am making a couple of assumptions. One, you have a current version...

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Getting comfortable using Google.

When I say get comfortable with using Google, I do not mean actually knowing how to use it. I am hoping you already have gotten that far. What I am thinking of more is using it to find your solutions....

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Completely Left Linux..for realz

Just as an update to the Why I'm sort of leaving Linux post this past October. A lot of people wanted to know if I would stick with Windows or if I would give in and return to Linux. And I still am...

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Mapping Objects in React

I am a student with Vets Who Code. VWC is a veteran-led and operated non-profit that focuses on training veterans, like me, in web development and software engineering principles, free of charge with...

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Build a CRUD Firestore App in React/Gatsby with Hooks

Goal The goal of this tutorial is how to build a simple CRUD app in React to connect with Firestore. I am breaking it down into several sections: Table of Contents Build a CRUD Firestore App in React...

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Share More JS / Avoid More BS

The greatest appeal for me becoming a JavaScript developer was the community. But more specifically the ability to, at any level, spread knowledge learned and also learn from others everyday. One thing...

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