Talk: Command Line Crash Course
These are the slides and notes from my Command Line Crash Course talk
presented at DevMemphis on March 3, 2020
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Talk: NPM, Yarn, Babel, Webpack – Why You Should Care
This content was written for the Memphis Web Workers User Group on April 10, 2018
The purpose of this talk is to convey how essential NPM, Yarn, Babel, and Webpack are to the JavaScript ecosystem; how lucky we are to have them given the scope of the problems they solve; and why JavaScript developers should prioritize learning and understanding them.
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Better JavaScript with ESlint, Airbnb, & Prettier
Add ESlint, Airbnb’s Style Guides, & Prettier to Create-React-App without Ejecting. Integrate ESlint with your editor.
- Code
- Software
- Talks
- Web Development
- Airbnb
- Create-React-App
- Eslint
- Javascript
- Memphis Web Workers
- Memtech
- Prettier
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Talk: Beyond Custom Post Types – Building an Organizational News Site with WordPress
Slides and speaker notes prepared for a talk at WordCamp Raleigh 2017.
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Talk: Managing State in Frontend Webapps with React and Redux
This brain dump was written with love for a presentation at the Tennessee
Higher Ed Tech Symposium 2017 and an internally talk for the fine folks I work
with.
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Talk: Beyond SEO – What your web developer wants you to know about the web
Here are the slides for the talk I gave at [Techcamp Memphis](http://www.techcampmemphis.org/sessions/beyond-seo-what-your-web-
developer-wants-you-to-know-about-web-content/) on November 5, 2016
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Talk: Accessibility 101 – The Technical Stuff
Here are the slides for a talk on A11Y at Memphis Tech Talks hosted by FIT & MTF
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Talk: Frontend asset management in Laravel
[Memphis PHP - Wednesday May 17, 2016](http://www.meetup.com/memphis-
technology-user-groups/events/229283992/)
Vaco
Midsouth
Summary:
Laravel ships with elixir, a gulp plugin with a clean syntax for building out
your frontend assets. While elixir is great in a lot of cases, it comes with
some limitations on projects with more complex frontend build requirements. I
’ll talk about why elixir is great, why it didn’t work for us, and how we
integrated our frontend framework in Laravel with some gulp magic.
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Talk: Building a [Not So] Simple Navigation System
[Memphis Web Workers User Group - May, 10 2016](http://www.meetup.com/memphis-
technology-user-groups/events/229681033/)
University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology
As part of a complete redesign, we developed our navigation menus from scratch and ran in to quite a few challenges along the way.
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Talk: Building an Electronic Raffle for Campus Events
A coworker and I worked together to build an ID badge driven online raffle for campus events to replace the antiquated ticket drawing and number calling method used previously.
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