Dave Taylor - Software Engineer

Out of curiosity, I’ve been experimenting with what you can do with a simple and generic middleware builder.

Note: This article is based on fp-ts version 1 For guides on how to use version 2 please refer to the fp-ts website In any codebase there are several paths which can fail.

Note: This article is based on fp-ts version 1 For guides on how to use version 2 please refer to the fp-ts website It’s such a pain dealing with values which could be null or undefined.

We’re using a lot more functional programming styles and pattens in our codebase.

Our fantastic team at Seccl are steaming ahead, we’re building products which will change what people expect from financial services and the companies who look after their finances.

Planning out a large application can be a very daunting prospect, especially when it comes to considering all the ways in which it will be used.

Thanks to everyone who came to the South West React Meetup, I walked through my series on using React and Redux with TypeScript.

It was great to give a swift tour of Progressive Web Apps for the lovely people at BathCamp last thursday.

We’re on the home-straight with this series.

Hello again, I hope you’re finding this series helpful.

Hello again, another monday another chance to explore the Power of TypeScript.

Welcome back to our Power of TypeScript series.

Here we go!

Hey everyone, welcome to Power of TypeScript Series, thanks for being here and I hope you find it useful.

Outside of reading over the concepts of functional programming I have never had the opportunity to really dig deep and get to know the theories, patterns and quirks.

What have I learnt from last year. 2016 held so much, it had many highs and lows from seeing the teams mature and grow at Arrow and the fun of the Jaguar app build to the long period of uncertainty during April as to where to go next after deciding to move

A couple of weeks ago I embarked on my third trip to Denver to see our Arrow team over there.

You will see the term “model” used a lot when looking at JavaScript applications that deal with data.

What is Reactive Programming and Why is it helpful One of the hardest problems to solve in programming is handling changes over time.

We have seen the huge benefits of pure functions for creating high quality and testable JavaScript.

I’ve started as a technical lead and mentor to a team of developers co-located in the US and London.

Build Stuff and have fun doing it … that pretty much sums up much of my childhood.

Read this article on medium Last year saw a new Terminator movie where we saw John Connor send Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect his mother.

Read this article on medium I’m a big fan of creating stories from what we achieve and what we experience.

I’ve recently been working with a luxury car brand on some HTML5 goodness and it’s reminded me to write about a very useful technique used a lot in game programming but often forgotten about when building creative websites and apps.

I’ve found myself asking a question regularly during projects, from the very early days when I didn’t know what I wanted with my work till these days when I often mentor and lead other developers.

Read this article on medium I begun this week with a challenge.

Read this article on medium ES6 or ES2015 … has been changing the way we write JavaScript as it slowly becomes more and more popular and easier to integrate in to our existing workflows.

This article is also on medium I first got started building with React over a year ago when I was on the labs team at Sainsbury’s.

Last year I had the pleasure to work as a UI Lead for The BIO Agency and Arrow Electronics.

BUGS … I feel like I’ve said a dirty word.

I have been doing a lot of refactoring recently on some common libraries used across multiple projects.

It was great to hear that the new responsive Econsultancy website went live at the end of last year.

Over the last couple of days for some reason I decided to use earphones rather than my usual headphones when I needed to concentrate and wanted to listen to some music.

We use CoffeeScript extensively in the GigStamp codebase at the moment.

As we are building modular components there will inevitably come a time when relationships between components will become needed.

We have just got back from an amazing weekend at Camden Crawl, an amazing urban festival with lots of great up-and-coming new artists gigging in pubs and clubs around Camden, London.

There is a lot of talk about components in the UI space.

It was exciting to find out last week that the National Theatre App I built with Play Nicely has won the Educational Multimedia Award from the British Universities Film & Video Council.

I’ve been using Promises and Deferreds pretty extensively for a while now and I thought I would put down some of my thoughts on when they work better than events and when they don’t.

OK, so new year as kinda gone but so much happened last year I guess it has spilled over in to 2014.

I feel like I’ve been in my little hole for months now … oh yeah it has been, since October!

It was great meeting everyone last night at the Bristech meetup.

It was great to be have Robin Stanley join me at the end of October.

If you are building a lot of html templates using Handlebars then here is a walk through of slimming them down using Require.js, require handlebars plugin and Handlebars helper system.

I’ve been working a lot with Backbone Marionette recently.

Here’s a quick tip for doing some simple performance measuring in Javascript.

What do you get when you mix a few Leap Motion devices, a few eager developers and space invaders?

It was great to be able to present at Bristol Skillswap last week.

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