Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup – Series Introduction – Part 1
The Backstory Garrett and I have been organizing meetups for the Truckee nonprofit, Tahoe Silicon Mountain, for over 8 years. We’ve helped grow it from a small monthly meetup with a handful of attendees to a group of 1,200+ with 3 monthly events, including Mountain Minds Monday, which attracts 40-100+ people each month. Plus, we hold…
Read MoreTech and Entrepreneurship in Tahoe and Truckee
**Updated 11/19/2018** There are a lot of exciting developments in the tech scene for Truckee and Tahoe. New groups continue to form, co-working and makerspaces are opening, and the startup scene continues to evolve. Tech and Entrepreneurship Networking and Meetup Groups Want to start your own meetup? Read our blog post series on organizing a…
Read MoreHow to Get Google My Business Phone Support
It is surprisingly easy to get Google My Business (GMB) phone support for your listing. Just be patience since you might be on hold when calling them. First, we’ll give you several options for getting in touch, including calling Google My Business, having them call you, or reaching them online through Facebook or Twitter.…
Read MoreOrganizing a Mountain Town Meetup – At the Event – Part 4
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the previous posts: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3- Getting the Word Out In this post, we’ll go over some of the basics…
Read MoreOrganizing A Mountain Town Meetup – Getting the Word Out – Part 3
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the previous posts: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Throughout the series, we use the nonprofit, Tahoe Silicon Mountain (TSM), as an example. Garrett…
Read MoreOrganizing A Mountain Town Meetup – Meetup Basics – Part 2
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. See the full list of posts in the Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup series and please read Part 1 – Introduction for the basics you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. In this post, we’ll go over some of the basics you’ll want to consider at…
Read MoreFetching a File in NodeJS with Request and Parsing It with Readline
Recently, I was working on a project where I needed to fetch a file from the internet and parse it line by line. NodeJS has the readline module that can be used to split a data stream into lines and perform a function on each line, which was perfect for my needs. The problem is…
Read MoreAutomatically Creating Github Issues Using Webtask.io
I am the co-organizer of the BeerJS meetings for TahoeJS. BeerJS is a casual meetup for JavaScript developers that has chapters all over the world. Our meetup is largely organized using a Github repo. As co-organizer, one of my monthly tasks is to create a Github issue for the upcoming meeting. The issue announces the…
Read MorePros and Cons of Using Medium as a Blogging Platform
I published my first blog post on Medium. It is called, Updating Your React Native App. It’s been interesting comparing and contrasting the experience of writing on Medium vs. writing on my own WordPress blog at McCullough Web Services. Here’s what I liked about writing on Medium:
Read MoreBreaking Change with setState in React 16 Alpha Affecting React Native 43+
Recently, I upgraded the React Native app at Build.com to version 45.1. While testing the app, we discovered an undocumented change to the way that setState works. This change will affect React Native version 43+ and is due to a change in the React 16 alpha library. In this post, I’ll describe this breaking change…
Read MoreReact Native 45 Errors in Jest
At Build.com, a co-worker and I are in the process of updating our app to the most recent version of React Native, 0.45.1. We’re currently working to fix up our tests in Jest and I thought I’d share with you some issues that we’ve discovered.
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