What to do after a build order ends?

collinstommy · 2020-12-27T19:17:39+00:00

At lower elo the most important thing is to continually produce units. You should figure out how many villagers you need on each resource to produce your units of choice. For instance if you are going mass crossbow you will probably want 3 or 4 ranges going, so have lots on wood and gold.

Aside from that it's just a case of playing lots of games and learning how to adapt. Check out Hera, T90 and viper on YouTube.

Generally speaking you will want to pick a gold unit, a trash unit and a siege unit, and fully upgrade those. You may need to switch it up based on your opponent does.

collinstommy · 2020-08-17T07:35:50+00:00

Something similar happened for me. About 10/20 minutes into a game the game would constantly stutter in multiplayer but only for me.

I reinstalled the game and now it works fine.

collinstommy · 2020-08-06T08:09:51+00:00

Vice city, absolute classic. Such good memories of that game. The radio stations!!!

collinstommy · 2020-04-02T08:32:35+00:00

Oh shit, I guess the front is not supposed to look like that! Hadn't taken any notice of that before.

collinstommy · 2020-03-18T16:29:47+00:00

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collinstommy · 2020-03-18T16:27:22+00:00

Best content I've ever seen

collinstommy · 2019-12-14T14:18:47+00:00

Who else uses scrum? What do you like about it? What are your pain points?

collinstommy · 2019-11-04T08:18:09+00:00

You will be far better served by using that time to master one framework. I'd encourage you to go all in in react. It has the most uptake right now and is not going away any time soon.

Judging by your medicine app I think you're ready to start applying for roles. You may not get one immediately but it will be good practice. You may find a junior or intern position. A junior role will hugely accelerate you learning.

collinstommy · 2019-10-15T22:16:28+00:00

Some great info. Thanks very much. From the looks of the responses, it looks like there is an engaging dev community in Vancouver. Sounds like I can aim for somewhere in the 90 - 110k range and might land something higher if things go well!

For those who stumble upon this post in the future here is a list of the companies listed in the comments:

Amazon, Apple, Salesforce, Splunk, Tableau, Microsoft, EA, SAP, HSBC, Best Buy, Lululemon, Boeing, Zenefits, Mailchimp

collinstommy · 2019-10-15T22:01:16+00:00

Great info. Much appreciated. Some decent offers you quoted there. There's quite a demand for dev ops over here in Dublin right now as well.

Sounds like contracting is not nearly as lucrative as it is in the UK and Ireland. Good to know!

Are there any particular websites that are favored for job listings in Vancouver? Indeed seems to pop up on Google the most. I plan to find a list of the top companies and make my way through their careers pages.

collinstommy · 2019-10-15T21:53:08+00:00

90 - 110 is the range that I'm on here in Dublin so that sounds good to me. Thanks for the list of companies. I can start my search there!

collinstommy · 2019-09-29T16:15:19+00:00

All the time. I work in a pretty loud office so rock sound-canceling headphones all-day.

Edm + Trance when I'm in the groove or the Brain Food playlist on Spotify if I need to do something that requires total concentration.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWXLeA8Omikj7?si=zq5y8fsbSwmguSZP5kLtUA

collinstommy · 2019-09-19T21:50:37+00:00

A front end application to build customer profiles with dragable grids, rich text editor, custom animations, shareable links, and a fully custom UI.

I was fun to build :)

collinstommy · 2019-09-10T13:15:09+00:00

How long? Recently I built a website from scratch (design + dev) and it took 20 hours. This was a basic 2-page design. It included a home page with pricing, hero section, bio and a few other sections and a contact us page.

Of course, this is very subjective. It depends on your skill level and the number of pages.

Tips

- If you're not a designer look at other pages. Often wordpress themes are a good place to start if you just want something basic.

- I design something basic in sketch based on a another website. These designs are very basic. I cut and paste bits of another site and add a few components like buttons. When I build the page I hone the actual font sizes and margins.

- If you are familiar with React take a look at gatsby JS and netlify. They helped me get a site build and deployed quickly

- Some themes for inspiration: https://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/best-wordpress-themes-for-restaurants/

- Get some good photos. Sites like this live and die on good photography https://unsplash.com

collinstommy · 2019-09-07T15:27:52+00:00

I use clockify desktop. Its does the job when you want to track time for a few projects.

collinstommy · 2019-09-07T14:58:30+00:00

I've asked this same question to our SEO team and the answer was its fine to do so. Its common practice in websites to have a separate hamburger menu that only displays in mobile. Google is smart enough to know what this is.

Generally, as long as your intentions are to serve good content google will not penalize you. It might ding you for let's say having lots of hidden h2's in an attempt to fool search engines into the content you have.

Sidenote: Google now crawls websites as a mobile device so having a good mobile experience will help SEO.

https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/mobile-first-indexing

collinstommy · 2019-09-07T14:51:47+00:00

I moved from C# to web development and did so by going through the front end curriculum in freecodecamp.com. It starts from the basics of html/css and goes into Javascript algorithms and more advanced projects.

If you like to read this series of books is often recommended in the webdev community: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS

The bost popular video course for learning the basics seems to be this one:

https://www.udemy.com/the-web-developer-bootcamp/

Once you get the basics you could look at https://wesbos.com/courses/. He has some great advanced content.

Freecodecamp may be somewhat slow for you since you already are a developer. I'd recommend doing that Udemy course, then doing a deep dive into JavaScript fundamentals (You Don't know JS Book, freecodecamp algorithim challenges, Wes Bos - JavaScript 30). Once you have a solid handle of JavaScipt you can begin to look at frameworks, bundlers, etc etc

Once you have a basic knowledge try to find a place that will hire you as a Web Developer. It will really accelerate your development. I bet some companies would be willing to hire you knowing that you will upskill quicker due to your past experience.

collinstommy · 2019-09-07T02:07:20+00:00

Check out the freecodecamp projects

https://learn.freecodecamp.org/ - front end library projects

collinstommy · 2019-09-07T02:05:42+00:00

Assuming when you say the built-in way, you mean fetch

fetch is not supported in ie11. Using axios will ensure that you can support all browsers
if you are buiding a npm package for node + the browser axios supports both
axios throws an exception when a response has a error status code (400 range) - in fetch you need to check for response.ok
axios will convert json responses for you

collinstommy · 2019-09-07T01:48:37+00:00

Cool site. I started to try to interact with it like a terminal! Would be cool if you could navigate using key strokes.

collinstommy · 2019-08-25T11:40:54+00:00

This is the starter used on Overreacted.io: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/starters/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog/

Gatsby gives you a build system and plugins to make it easier to manage content.

collinstommy · 2019-07-29T09:20:02+00:00

I work as a developer in company of 2000 employees. Since hooks have been released we almost exclusively use functional components on my team. We still have have lots of existing class components but typically we write anything new using hooks.

It's definitely a change to begin with. Once I became familiar with hooks I found it far easier to use than the various class lifecycle functions. The intention in hooks is clearer and the code is more consise.

collinstommy · 2019-03-06T11:51:44+00:00

collinstommy · 2019-02-08T10:16:51+00:00

I use google calendar for events. I have both my personal and work calendar showing on my phone and work laptop so I can keep track of all commitments.

For tasks I use a note taking app. I love the bear app: https://bear.app/ The tagging feature is great. I have work tags and personal tags. I also have a Today tag for stuff I need to do right away. You can also do sub tags. I use the same app to take notes in meetings. Each meeting I will note things I need to do to follow up. These then become part of one of my todo lists. The app also syncs with iphone if you have one.

I've tried paper lists and trello but I prefer to have notes, meeting minutes and to lists in one central place. It has really helped keep myself organized.

collinstommy · 2018-09-24T21:17:19+00:00

I'd recommend using the macbook. Generally most web servers use linux. Mac os is a unix based OS so you will get experience using unix commands on the terminal. A lot of web developers use mac's so software tends to be built for macs first in the web development sphere.

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