Donovan OdomThe Great Balancing Act — How to Sustain the Pursuance of a Career Change (into Tech)Dr. Eric Thomas once spoke on values in relation to elevating your life- a bite from this particular speech has resonated with me over the…6 min read·Jun 1, 2022----
Donovan OdominTowards DevUpdating Profile Images Stored on AWS S3 Buckets Using React Frontend and Rails API BackendThis is by far going to be my most comprehensive blog post to date. I’ll be writing this over the span of a few days. It took me about a…9 min read·Feb 16, 2022--1--1
Donovan OdominTowards DevTricks for Animated Menus Using CSS and ReactYesterday, I was hanging out in a few dev discord channels when someone asked for help in animating a drop down menu. I had implemented…2 min read·Feb 3, 2022----
Donovan OdominTowards DevAn Outline of Redux ToolkitAt the end of last year, I was tasked with learning Redux. This tool can be a means for cleaning up React applications that become…3 min read·Feb 3, 2022----
Donovan OdominTowards DevBuilding a Commenting System with Full CRUD using React with RailsAfter scouring the web for a blog that would give me some tips on building a commenting system, and not finding (exactly) what I was…5 min read·Dec 14, 2021----
Donovan OdomRuby Controllers using SinatraMy most recent project has been the first of many to come where I felt able to fully understand the logic of both backend and frontend…2 min read·Nov 17, 2021----
Donovan Odomparams.permit using RoRAlright. Let’s go ahead & give a rundown of one of Rails security features against mass assignment vulnerabilities.2 min read·Nov 2, 2021----
Donovan OdomReact Trivia App Using jServiceAbout 3 months into my course, and its time for project number 2. I decided to build a trivia application using an API called jService. You…3 min read·Aug 14, 2021----
Donovan OdomImplementing the useState Hook in ReactReact hooks have all but made react class components obsolete. Hooks provide useful features, and in the case of useState, allow for us to…1 min read·Jul 14, 2021----