Hello readers, With the release of the Vue Composition API and Vue 3 we now have some amazing methods that will make our lives so much easier. Namely, reactive({}) and computed(() => {}). I have been using reactive and computed methods for my state management system in Vue for the…

Many articles dealing with self-employment or business taxes recommend you save 25–30% per paycheck in order to save enough for tax season. However, for many people this amount is too much and you will end up giving too much money to the government. That’s money you could have invested, kept…

In the PHP and Wordpress era, we had websites that would have to make a full-page refresh every time the browser navigated to a new page and thus appeared to load very slowly. With the discovery of AJAX routing it’s now possible to load the full-page once and then only…

Note: I’m not being paid for this article. I started using Quasar half way through last year and fell in love with it. A while back I taught myself React, Angular 2, and Vuejs and spent a large amount of time researching the best Material Design UI library for each…

I’ve been working heavily lately on a tax app that helps you estimate your quarterly federal taxes that I’m really excited about. It’s been a long but fun and rewarding process and it’s now out in the Android and Mac App Store. 2018 Quarterly Tax Estimator - Android Apps on Google Play Estimate your quarterly taxes and see taxes for each paycheck.play.google.com 2018 Quarterly Tax Estimator on the Mac App Store Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about 2018 Quarterly Tax Estimator. Download…itunes.apple.com

I hope to show you how to easily setup a docker build from your project branch upon every push to that branch, run integration tests, deploy your Docker image or Docker Compose file to a server using SSH, and notify you on Slack or email. Why use a Continuous Integration and Deployment service? Continuous integration and deployment is…

Cordova development can potentially be very slow. First you have to make your changes, compile your app, run cordova build android copy that file to your device somehow and then install and launch it. For making quick changes this quickly becomes exasperating. Quasar Framework attempts to fix this by adding…

I’ve been studying docker-swarms lately and wanted to write a cheatsheet of setup and commands to maintain a swarm both for my reference and yours. These commands are for docker version: 17.03.0-ce as of August 2017. Install docker with curl -ssl https://get.docker.com | bash Preparing the server Create several instances of the one-click…

I’ve been teaching myself CI/CD lately and heard of SemaphoreCI. I was first using the free GitlabCI, but Semaphore is free for open sourced projects and advertises as the fastest CI service. GitlabCI took 6–7 minutes to complete my tasks Semaphore did the same work in 2.5 minutes Semaphore costs…