Tips and tricks we've picked up along the way.
The Olio Apps Inaugural Hackathon
Recently, Olio Apps took a little break from our regularly scheduled programming (😜) to do some hacking. We broke off into teams two, designed and built projects over the course of a pizza-fueled "work" day.
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A-Frame TypeScript Toolkit: Creating WebVR with TypeScript
We love TypeScript. I’ll get into the reasons why later. And we love virtual reality. Being able to create WebVR experiences has been a focus at Olio Apps this year. This lead us to create a set of tools to help developers to make A-Frame experiences using TypeScript.
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Magic Leap — First Impressions
Here at Olio Apps, we have taken the next step into the world of augmented/mixed reality and added a Magic Leap to our catalog. This decision was driven by our interest in the mixed reality space and the possibilities of the domain.
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A-Frame + Redux: Writing VR Experiences connected to Redux
At Olio Apps, we are eager to present our first tool for creating scalable WebVR applications. Our experience engineering web and native apps along with our motivation to develop in the virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) space has brought us to create aframe-typescript-redux.
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The Olio Apps Internship Experience
When Cory and I decided the make the transition from our previous career fields to development, one of largest deciding factors in picking a code school was career services and job preparation. We both chose Epicodus because it offered an internship as part of the schooling process, which is how we were both placed at Olio Apps.
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Automatic Code Formatting for Partially-Staged Files
I wrote git-format-staged to apply an automatic code formatter or linter to staged files. It ignores unstaged changes, and leaves those changes unstaged. When run in a Git pre-commit hook git-format-staged guarantees that committed files are formatted properly, and does not clobber unstaged changes if formatting cannot be applied to working tree files cleanly.
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We recently had a new intern at Olio Apps and during the first couple days they were given a mini coding exercise to work through. By way of Friday afternoon banter, this was extended as a challenge to the rest of us devs to come up with our own solution. I wanted to write down my approach to solving this problem because it may be useful for some student, intern or Jr. dev preparing for an interview.
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Keep Calm And Carry On Coding: What to Do When Requirements Change
Envision the following scenario: you are working away at the final 5% of a project, glad to be near the end, when you catch the first hints of unexpected changes coming in the near future.
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Love Thy Selenium Tests: Functional Tests that Fail Only When They're Supposed To
Automated browser testing with Selenium can be a developer's best friend, and at the same time, their worst enemy. Tests that once seemed to work well can mysteriously start to break, fail only sometimes, or slow to a crawl. But, your relationship with Selenium doesn't have to be so complicated.
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