DEV Community: Ben Mulford

Classic Snake!

Ben Mulford — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:14:09 +0000

I forked this repo (https://github.com/CodingWith-Adam/snake) of the classic snake game from the old Nokia bar-style phones. It was some fun practice, and gives me something to do on my phone besides scroll social media. Check it out. Try it out. File a bug/issue. Fork it. Have fun!

Demo: https://thedevbc.github.io/classic-snake/

Repo: https://github.com/thedevbc/classic-snake

Tip for Winning at Work

Ben Mulford — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:35:16 +0000

When you’re assigned a bunch of tedious repetitive coding, find a way to automate it. It’s more fun too!

Wrote a program in a day and a half that took 5 seconds to do work that would have taken me a couple weeks to type manually.

What win(s) have you had this week?

Effect of COVID-19 on Economy Hit Me Today

Ben Mulford — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:24:46 +0000

The company I work for announced that we had to take a temporary 25% pay cut. Sucks. Anybody else have similar experience? Also, anybody need some extra dev work?

Simple Stopwatch Web App

Ben Mulford — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:42:10 +0000

I built a new small project for my portfolio. It was good practice in Javascript and CSS. Check out my stopwatch app: https://thedevbc.github.io/stopwatch/
Code available at https://github.com/thedevbc/stopwatch

Feel free to give some feedback.

The challenge with doing this in the browser is that the document can't be updated every millisecond. Hundreds of a second was possible, but it really didn't matter to the human eye. I decided to only show tenths of a second in the clock display, but then when recording values (laps) it is using time stamps which are accurate down to the millisecond.

HackerX Event: Is It Worth It?

Ben Mulford — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:04:08 +0000

Anybody ever attend a HackerX event? Is it worth going if you're not in the market for a job? From what I gather it's a "by invitation only" recruiting event. I guess it would be good for networking...and there's free food. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to attend. But I don't want to waste my time either. Thanks in advance for any responses.

How to get started with Angular, for total beginners...

Ben Mulford — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:27:47 +0000

For a friend, I put together steps to start from scratch with Angular. By "from scratch" I mean, you know how to turn on your computer and work with HTML and CSS, but as far as working with Angular, you haven't a clue. I include setting up your dev environment. Let me know what you think.

https://www.benmulford.com/home/how-to-start-from-scratch-with-angular-a-beginners-guide