Iron Ion

05/09/2016

UX in 2016. The struggle is real.

https://uxdesign.cc/the-state-of-ux-in-2016-4a87799647d8?source=latest---------2

Here’s our take on looking at the past, understanding the present, and anticipating what the future holds for UX in 2016…

04/14/2016

https://blueprint.cbre.com/typography-of-place-how-fonts-shape-a-citys-identity/

Most city dwellers speed-walk along crowded streets each day, barely taking notice of the typography that adorns everything from storefronts and street sign

04/09/2016

http://makezine.com/2016/04/05/stop-teaching-programming-start-teaching-computational-thought/

Educators want to teach programming to make a generation of coders, but even non-coders can benefit from learning computational thought.

03/29/2016

Caesar's Cipher Bonfire solved. Finally found some time to noodle through this one. Hooray! Onto intermediate algorithms... D-:

https://ironion.com/bonfire-caesars-cipher-solution/

I had to take a little break and do a pen review in between some projects, but I’m back and ready to polish off these beginner’s algorithms. Today, we’re tackling the Caesar’s Cipher Bonfire and the last of the beginner challenges that Free Code Camp has for us. Let’s take a look at what they... Rea…

01/29/2016

Where Do I Belong, the most existential of Bonfires is solved. https://ironion.com/bonfire-where-do-i-belong/

I was getting excited months ago when Where Do I Belong was the last of the foreseeable Beginner's Bonfires we'd be doing.

01/13/2016

All right! Three-ish more to go and I'll be done (the beginner ones at least).

Free Code Camp's Bonfire wants us to remove all the false values in the array in the Falsy Bouncer Javascript challenge. Here's how.

12/30/2015

Bonfire: Slasher Flick solved. I'm excited because there are only three left in the beginner's Bonfires to do (I did the next one, but it won't be up until next week-ish): http://ironion.com/bonfire-slasher-flick/

Today we're going to look into the Bonfire Slasher Flick. The good news, is that the solution is actually very simple. We'll just be using slice().

12/22/2015

So it has nothing to do with development or design of web or app. But I want to wrap everything in really pretty wrapping paper:
http://www.fineartstore.com/c-1150-paper.aspx
https://riflepaperco.com/shop/gift-wrap/
http://ohsobeautifulpaper.com/market-list/gift-wrap-tags/

Paper

12/22/2015

Another one down! Chunky Monkey, Bonfire Solution: http://ironion.com/bonfire-chunky-monkey-solution/

This Chunky Monkey Bonfire expects us to split up an array into a specified number. We're going to use a while loop and the splice() Javascript method.

12/11/2015

Repeating a String, Bonfire Algorithm Scripting with Javascript: http://ironion.com/bonfire-repeat-a-string-solution/

This FreeCodeCamp Bonfire will have us repeat a string. This is actually one of the easier Bonfires to work with becau more than one solution exists.

12/05/2015

I should really start posting these here whenever I do them. Bonfire Algorithm Scripting. Truncate a String Solution: http://ironion.com/bonfire-truncate-string-solution/

We're going to be solving the Bonfire and truncate a string in this post. To truncate something means to cut off a string by a certain amount of characters.

11/16/2015

Way too lazy to read The Elements of Typographic Style? Here ya go: http://practicaltypography.com/