Boot.dev Blog - Pg. 9
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The 10x Meeting - Solving for Too Many Meetings
May 10, 2021 by Lane WagnerPerhaps you’ve heard of the fabled 10x developer (or 10x engineer) - the one on the team that’s 10x as productive as their average colleague.
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Concatenating with strings.Builder Quickly in Golang
May 04, 2021 by Lane WagnerThe Go standard library makes concatenating strings easy. Concatenation is just a fancy word for adding strings together to make a larger string.
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Golang vs Python: Which Language is Best For You?
Apr 29, 2021 by Zulie RaneThese two coding languages duke it out - but who’s the winner? 🔗 In a world where the ability to write any code at all is a tremendous advantage, often the biggest problem coders face is knowing which language to start learning, rather than whether to learn one at all.
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The Ultimate Guide to JSON in Go
Apr 28, 2021 by Lane WagnerAs a language designed for the web, Go provides extensive support for working with JSON data.
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Migrating From Vue-CLI & Webpack to Vitejs
Apr 26, 2021 by Lane WagnerBoot.dev’s web app that hosts all of my coding courses is a single-page application written in Vue 2, with plans to migrate to Vue 3 soon™©®.
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How Replace a String in Go - Top 5 Examples
Apr 20, 2021 by Lane WagnerGo has a powerful standard library that makes string manipulation easy right out of the box.
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How and Why to Write Enums in Go
Apr 19, 2021 by Lane WagnerAn enum (short for enumerator), is a set of named constant values. An enum is a powerful tool that allows developers to create complex sets of constants that have useful names and yet simple and unique values.
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Splitting a String into a Slice in Golang
Apr 15, 2021 by Lane WagnerI can’t begin to tell you how often I split strings in Go. More often than not I’m just parsing a comma-separated list from an environment variable, and Go’s standard library gives us some great tools for that kind of manipulation.
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Backend Developers are UX Designers Too
Apr 12, 2021 by Lane WagnerToo often I neglect the idea of UX design in backend work. The goal of user experience design is to give users a product that’s easy to use.
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For Loops in Go
Apr 10, 2021 by Lane WagnerFor loops are a programmer’s best friend! They allow us execute blocks of code repeatedly and iterate over collections of items.
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Advanced Algorithms Course Released on Boot.dev
Apr 05, 2021 by Lane WagnerSorry it took so long for me to get this one out! Learn Advanced Algorithms was just released, and I’m excited to let you all get your hands on it, even if you’re just auditing it for free!
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Naming Variables the Right Way
Apr 01, 2021 by Lane WagnerI’ve noticed that bugs introduced into an existing code base are often due to poor variable naming more than one might suspect.
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Which is Worth It, Coding Bootcamp or a Computer Science Degree?
Mar 29, 2021 by Zulie RaneWhen you’re in a position of wondering, “Is a coding bootcamp worth it?” you should look at several factors.
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Can You Get a Programming Job with Just an Associate's Degree?
Mar 22, 2021 by Lane WagnerChanging majors is a tale as old as time. A degree that would normally require four years to complete can quickly turn into a more expensive endeavor that takes five or six years for a student that can’t decide what they want to study.
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How I Organize My Local Development Environment
Mar 17, 2021 by Lane WagnerWhen I was just getting into coding, I was very disorganized. I would create a new text file in My Documents, work on it, never create a Git repository, accidentally delete it later, you get the idea.
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All Coding Courses on boot.dev Are Now Free to Audit
Mar 15, 2021 by Lane WagnerLast weekend I did a major revamp of boot.dev’s payment strategy, after toying with the first version since I launched in the summer of 2020, as it turns out, the microtransaction (gem) strategy didn’t work out to the benefit of my students, nor to the growth of boot.
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Where Can You Get a Programming Certificate Online?
Mar 14, 2021 by Zulie RaneThere are two main options to get a programming certificate online - online courses and universities.
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Using a High-Level RabbitMQ Client in Golang
Mar 10, 2021 by Lane WagnerIf you’ve already read my previous post, you know that the amqp package is awesome and you can get up and running with just 40-50 lines of simple code.
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The Two Classes of Software Engineer
Mar 05, 2021 by Lane Wagner“Software engineer” has become a ubiquitous term for people who write, deploy, architect, or sometimes even simply test code.
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Top 8 Benefits of Functional Programming
Feb 25, 2021 by Lane WagnerFunctional programming is a way to write code where programs are created strictly through functions. Functional programming has gained quite a bit of traction in recent years among the development community, mostly because of the benefits it provides.
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Top 8 Tricks to Learn Coding Fast
Feb 22, 2021 by Lane WagnerThe journey to becoming a gainfully employed software engineer can feel long. The good news is, you can learn smarter not harder.
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Is There a Case for Programmers to Unionize?
Feb 15, 2021 by Lane WagnerI’ve seen a lot of buzz recently about software developers wanting to form unions. I’m particularly interested in this topic while I’m #indiehacking boot.
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View Git Tags with Semver Ordering
Feb 09, 2021 by Lane WagnerIf you’re like me, you wish all Git tags adhered to the Semantic Versioning standard. Unfortunately, Semver is just a convention, so Git tags can basically be any string of text.
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Why should you learn Golang? [2022]
Feb 08, 2021 by Meghan ReichenbachGolang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for career-conscious developers to learn.
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What Is Dry Code, and Is It Always A Good Thing?
Jan 25, 2021 by Lane Wagner“Don’t repeat yourself”, or “DRY” for short, is a somewhat controversial principle of software development. It aims to make code cleaner, which is to say less buggy and easier to work with.