Guide to logically solving a common interview question — Some interview questions are designed to see if the applicant understands specific concepts. Others by contrast aren’t focused specifically on concepts like memoization, recursion, or linked lists. Instead, these are built to test the person’s critical thinking, their approach to a problem, and how they utilize those to come up…

How to Utilize an Efficient Solution to a Common Interview Question — Some code interview questions are about more than just finding a solution. Sometimes a simple question is offered to see if a person can solve it in the most efficient manner. One such question is the duplicate values problem. Given an array of integers, find the first duplicate value. For…

Write an algorithm to generate parentheses — a common interview question. — Studying data structure and algorithm questions for job interviews can be difficult. The questions are a crap shoot so it seems random as to which kinds to be familiar with. One such question I have personally seen multiple times for different job interviews is this one: Given n pairs of…

Coding interviews come with many possible challenges. Like it or not data structure and algorithm questions are still commonplace in the process for a software development gig. Apply to enough jobs and chances are you will likely run into a problem like this: Given a string, return all unique permutations…

A how-to guide — I was recently adding a feature to one of my Rails projects that would allow the user to input a location and get back a list of breweries with an interactive map. The Google Maps API is obviously a popular choice for this but I was surprised to see that…

Sometimes it’s nice to spice up a Rails app with event listeners and responsive changes that don’t involve reloading the page. To do that you can integrate JavaScript. Let’s go over how to accomplish this and the differences in how this is handled between Rails versions 6 and 7. Rails…

Gotta Memoize to Memorize. — In my long and winding journey to break into the tech world, I have encountered many different variations of interviews involving data structures and algorithms. …

Faraday, Excon, and Rest Client — If you are developing an application that makes use of APIs then you will have to choose an HTTP client to make the requests. Ruby has its own built-in HTTP client called Net::HTTP but it can be a pain to work with. Alternatively, there are libraries that make it much…

What they are and when to use them — One of the benefits of Next.js it’s versatility in regards to how it builds the page on the user’s browser. The speed at which the content is rendered depends on the size and type of application. Next.js has three options to choose from so that pages render at optimal speeds. 1. Client-side rendering …