Tyler Hoffman on Atomic Spin

How Do You Know When to Refactor Your Code?

It's really rewarding to get a chunk of code refactored, but it comes at a price; time spent refactoring is time you aren't developing features.

Web Apps

Five Steps to Learn React Quickly

A lot of our teams are using React, so we've designed some of our recent bootcamps to ramp in new employees. These are some of the steps I'd recommend.

Development Practices

Code Reviews as a Tool to Boost Productivity

Code reviews are a great long-term investment. They build shared knowledge, increase consistency, and make teams far more productive.

Web Apps

React State vs. Redux State: When and Why?

Even if you choose to use Redux in your project, you will still need to make decisions on how much of your data is stored in Redux.

TypeScript

Typesafe Container Components with React-Redux’s Connect and TypeScript

When using the connect function, you may find that you are permitted to pass invalid props or omit required props to components.

Web Apps

Higher-Order Components in React

React emphasizes composition over inheritance, and it uses higher-order components (HoCs) as an alternative to inheritance.

Developer Tools

Simple Android REST calls with Retrofit2

In this post, I'll discuss the basics of getting started with Retrofit2, as well as a few tricks I've found useful when using it.

Android Development

Sending Data Between Activities in Android

In this post, I’ll discuss a few ways to pass data between Activities using Intents, including passing primitives, Strings, and object types.

Ruby on Rails

A Few Tips For Getting Started With Rails

A few issues that can arise when you get started creating models using Rails, along with some easy solutions to them that will save you time.

Development Practices

Test-Driven Development for the Uninitiated

This introduction to TDD is for developers who think test-driven development is a good idea, but don't yet feel like it will work for them.

Tyler Hoffman

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