Damien White

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Hi, my name is Damien White. I'm a software architect with over 20 years of experience. I simply love coding! I have a driving passion for software development, and a thirst for knowledge that cannot be quenched. I enjoy writing Web and Mobile applications, and I'm happy to share what I know in my quest to learn as much as possible.

My Latest Posts

• Mar 1, 2021 By Damien White

  Rails Counter Cache Gotcha

  Introduction Today I was attempting to use Rails’ counter cache feature to save on expensive queries. My model’s association is a has_many :through. I ran into issues on my first... Read More

• Dec 4, 2019 By Damien White

  Ember Octane + ESLint + Prettier

  Introduction I started a brand new Ember Octane project today. The first thing I wanted to do was set up prettier in my Ember app. I started using prettier for... Read More

• Apr 2, 2018 By Damien White

  Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 05)

  Hello again and congrats! You’ve made it to the end of the series (Part 5) of Riding Rails. Today we’ll develop a details view for each job and wrap up... Read More

• Mar 26, 2018 By Damien White

  Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 04)

  Thanks for coming back, this is Part 4 of Riding Rails. Today we’ll be discussing routing, controllers, and views. These will finally bring our application to life. I’m going to... Read More

• Mar 19, 2018 By Damien White

  Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 03)

  Welcome back to Riding Rails, this is Part 3. In this part, we’ll be working with GitHub Jobs and persisting the information in our database. We’ll see how far we... Read More