Stairway to Heaven of Front-End Developers

     

So I was reading Ted Whang’s blogthe other day and I saw something that made me chuckle. Ted’s blog centers around his experience at Coding Dojo. In one entry in particular he says that he “personally has an obsession with parallax scrolling. Even if you don’t know what parallax scrolling means, you probably have ran into one and thought to yourself, “man this is really cool”. “ I had to laugh because I felt (and still feel) the same way.

AAR pt 4 (Swift/Xcode)

     

If you haven’t had a chance to read the first entry in the series for context, you can do so here. Given that my work is primarily based around development of the client applications, I’m going to have an outsized quantity of iOS and Android lessons learned compared to the other stacks. I’ll do as well as I can to stagger them with other languages and tools (for example, the preceding entries on Python, React, and C#), but will probably eventually have a few back-to-back entries of iOS and Android.

AAR pt 3 (Xamarin/C#/Azure)

     

If you haven’t had a chance to read the first entry in the series for context, you can do so here. We do a fair amount of .NET development over at Steelcase. When I first joined the mobile development team we seriously considered doing our mobile applications in Xamarin. We eventually decided against it since Steelcase is a very heavily design driven company, and Xamarin just wouldn’t provide the flexibility that a purely native approach does.

WWDC 17

     

One of the many benefits of working at Steelcase is that each year every developer is allotted $5000 to attend conferences. This year I entered the Apple lottery for WWDC tickets and I won! Over the course of 5 days I learned an immense amount about Swift 4, Xcode 9, iOS 11, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning with CoreML. What follows is a massive brain dump of all the notes and highlights that I took during the conference.

AAR pt 2 (Python)

     

If you haven’t had a chance to read the first entry in the series for context, you can do so here. In this post I’ll be covering my most important lessons learned from everyone’s favorite language, Python. I’ll also have some React.js and React-Redux at the end, since the majority of these lessons learned were made while I was on-boarding with a full-stack web developer. You can run python2 and python3 side-by-side, just need to differentiate calls by appending a ‘3’ to calls to the python3 tools (i.