Interested in building your own trivia game? Clone my complete project from GitHub and start making your own trivia app today! Like I said before, it all started on my porch, about a month before the first big Mardi Gras parades rolled through New Orleans. My sister, my son, and I were casually tossing around …
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It all started on my porch, about a month before the first big parades rolled. My sister, my son, and I were throwing around Mardi Gras trivia—everything from parade schedules to quirky local traditions. What began as a playful competition quickly sparked a bigger idea: what if this fun porch pastime became an interactive game …
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The Parade RouteIn the Crescent City, every parade—from Oshun to Rex—follows a time-honored route. The captains have to plan every twist and turn through Uptown, the Garden District, and finally downtown along Canal Street. Building a website or application is much the same. You define a roadmap (your “route”) from idea to launch, plotting each …
In the world of software development, you may have stumbled across titles like DevOps Engineer, Data Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer. At Revelry, we certainly don those hats, but we have another unique team I’m proud to be a part of: Design Engineers. What is a Design Engineer? In a nutshell, we are user experience (UX) …
Blurring the Lines: The Rise of the Design Engineer Read More »
In early June, Apple introduced its Apple Vision Pro and in doing so sent the technology world into a frenzy with two words: spatial computing. With spatial computing, the physical environment and the digital environment are one; rather than the user operating separately from their computing environment, they are placed inside of it. Spatial computing …
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As a software engineer and LEGO enthusiast, I spend my days designing with code and my nights designing with bricks. Whether I’m dreaming up a new brick-inspired creation or a new app, the process is surprisingly similar. You’ve got to have a game plan, take it one step at a time, and make use of …
Building with Bricks and Bytes – The Overlapping Worlds of LEGO and Software Engineering Read More »
I recently had the opportunity to use Phoenix 1.7 and LiveView .18.3 in a production environment and it was, in a word, amazing. It’s hard to know where to start, as I’m all 😍 over the whole experience, but this series will introduce some of the most important aspects of Phoenix 1.7 that you need …
What’s New in Phoenix 1.7 + LiveView .18 – File Structure and Templates Read More »
Introduction One of the most handy features of Phoenix 1.6+ is the ability to use mix phx.gen.live to easily generate Liveviews, templates, and a context for a resource. However, if you are utilizing Surface in your project, you need to modify some of the files it creates to make them usable in your project. To …
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In this tutorial, I will walk you through two different methods of accessing a MySQL database in Node: through ES6’s promise syntax, and through ES7’s async/await syntax. I will illustrate how this is done using a real-world example, which goes multiple layers deep in our MySQL queries, accessing one-to-many relational tables based on the previous …