Jacob KnopfAccessibility: Why Your Website Needs to Be Compliant in 2024In the ever-changing world of web design and development, accessibility is no longer just optional, it’s essential. With continuously…4 min read·Apr 1, 2024----
Jacob KnopfinThe StartupMore Sorting Algorithms: Heapify with HeapsortI have another sorting algorithm to discuss this week, and it’s called Heapsort. You can think of it as a kind of enhanced Selection Sort…3 min read·Aug 1, 2020----
Jacob KnopfSorting Algorithms Continued: What Is Recursion?Last week I introduced how to implement Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, and Selection Sort with code examples, and in this post I’m going to…3 min read·Jul 25, 2020----
Jacob KnopfCommon Sorting Algorithms: Ace That Next Technical InterviewIn this post I want to go over how to sort collections in Ruby, and no I don’t mean — array = [1, 5, 4, 5, 2].sort — I’m talking about…3 min read·Jul 18, 2020----
Jacob KnopfinLevel Up CodingBig O Notation: Calculating Time ComplexityPreparing for technical interviews can be difficult, frustrating, and confusing at times. As I continue my job search I thought I would…3 min read·Jul 11, 2020----
Jacob KnopfAn Overview of the Rails Data TypesIn my previous post I discussed Rails migrations, and how the documentation is great for providing necessary insight about most questions…3 min read·Jul 4, 2020----
Jacob KnopfA Review of Rails Migrations: Concepts to RememberToday I want to review Rails migrations, specifically some important concepts you’ll at least want to familiarize yourself with if you…3 min read·Jun 27, 2020----
Jacob KnopfRuby Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas: What You Need to KnowWhen I first started learning about closures in Ruby I was pretty confused what the differences were between code blocks, procs and…3 min read·Jun 20, 2020----
Jacob KnopfUtilizing Hooks in a React ComponentThere have been many updates to React.js since it was released seven years ago, especially with the addition of the ES6 syntax in 2015…3 min read·Jun 13, 2020----
Jacob KnopfinThe StartupNode.js Error Message “getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND localhost” SolutionToday I want to go over a quick fix to an error that had me very confused when I first started my program at Flatiron. If you try to run…3 min read·Jun 5, 2020----