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So, I’m new to AWS. Today I setup a new EC2 instance to deploy a personal instance of sentry.io. It’s a pretty universal and open source code error reporting tool which I plan to use to report on internal infrastructure and customer facing applications. During that setup process I needed to SSH into my new … Read more
Happen to be getting the Invariant Violation: requireNativeComponent: “RNGADBannerView” was not found in the UIManager error? Did you use the really useful react-native-admob lib at some point, remove it, but are still getting this weird error? Maybe you’re using another lib, removed it, and are getting a similar error? I spent nearly three full days … Read more
I recently spent quite some time trying to vertically and horizontally center text in React Native. I tried all sorts of combinations of align, alignContent, alignSelf, etc but couldn’t get my text horizontally and vertically centered. I mean this is probably because I’m React Native newb but stilllll. I’m actually quite surprised how bare the … Read more
Digital Ocean or AWS? Ahh, the classic question our fore fathers have been asking for millenia. Should we go the developer and pocket book friendly route with Digital Ocean or take the leap and make friends with Goliath aka AWS? At First This was a silly question for me when I first started developing. Digital … Read more
Hey everybody! I thought I’d do a quick intro on an app I started working on. Drum roll please… Moomosa! It’s a React-Native application that uses Firebase as a database at the moment (more on this later). That database is managed with a React application I developed to add, delete, and approve new content. I … Read more
My Computer Setup How To Create a Blank File From your Terminal Ever need a blank file to mock up a file system while on Linux? USE TOUCH! It’s pretty useful when you’re navigating through folders and want to spin up a doc really quick. If you then just list what’s in your current directory, … Read more
Are you trying to use Javascript’s filter on an array of objects that contain arrays? Are you having trouble getting it to return elements to conditionally rebuild that array? I had the same issue and blamed the filter method for a quick sec. Buuuut lo and behold it was me as always. Still new to … Read more
Soooo you got the IndexError: only integers, slices (`:`), ellipsis (`…`), numpy.newaxis (`None`) and integer or boolean arrays are valid indices error. Let’s get that annoying message fixed. My Computer Setup For those Short On Time You’re trying to access an element of a Pandas index like df.columns where df is a DataFrame by using … Read more
So how do you create a class in Python3? What is class? Why do we need a class? All great questions. My Computer Setup Python3 (Finally getting used to adding parentheses around my print statements ) macOS What is an object? So let’s go over what a class is. Classes are the preliminary step to … Read more
We’ll be showing you how filter a Pandas DataFrame in Python. So let’s set the scene. You work for a massive food company that sells deli meats and fruits. You’ve been toiling at your computer for hours trying to create a dataframe of your company’s product info. Department XYZ needs that data so they can … Read more