Brandon Parker

Fixd Repair: A Vue-Powered Home Repair Website

Fixd Repair is a modern, performant responsive website utilizing Vue.js and a Vue framework called Nuxt.

Large Custom WordPress Theme for a Cloud Based Product

Kloudless is an API Integration platform that makes it easy for developers to integrate APIs such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Slack, and many more into web services. They offer one API, which is used to access over 100 API integrations in an easy-to-use way. My job was to build, maintain, and deploy their main WordPress site and build their custom theme.

Carbuckets Vue.js Powered Web App

Carbuckets is an app that helps consumers find the best vehicle prices by bundling buyers together. It's a dashboard heavy app that offers features both to car buyers and sellers. My job was to expand dashboard features and improve parts of the app's design using vue.js, vuex and vue router.

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Breathr.io - Meditation App SPA Built with React.js and Redux

Breathr.io aims to encourage daily meditation as a habit by using timer and video searching features. Breathr is an SPA built with React + Redux.

November 1, 2019

Git

Git Good: Using Cherry-Pick to “Move” Commits

It’s no secret that Git is an essential tool for all kinds of software. Git isn’t terribly hard to pick up, yet has a complex learning curve. The neat thing about the learning curve is the little tricks just waiting to be picked up. Today, I will be going over something that can be massively […]

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June 21, 2020

CSS HTML SCSS

Let’s Learn SASS & SCSS: Variables and Nesting (Part 3)

If you’re reading this post, there’s a chance you’ve already stumbled upon part 1(getting started) and part 2(setting up a build). If you haven’t, checking them out gives this post additional context! Now that we’re starting to learn SASS, it’s natural to dive into the functionality that’s easiest to implement out of the gate. Don’t […]

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September 1, 2022

Javascript Vue.js

Using debounce in Vue.js templates

If you’ve ever used something like lodash, you may have heard of the debounce function. Debounce is useful for limiting the amount of calls a function makes in a set time frame(in milliseconds). For example, if you want to call a function once per second as a user is typing in a search box, debounce […]

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July 15, 2018

Javascript

Learning Programming Fundamentals the FUN Way, In Any Language

What timeless advice welcomes fresh programmers? Yes, you guessed it. Fundamentals. Learn how to code in pure JavaScript before learning a framework like Vue.js. Whatever your stack may be, the advice remains rock solid. Learn fundamentals first before diving into the exciting, fancy world of web frameworks. There’s just one problem with this advice, especially […]

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April 8, 2019

Bash Linux

5 Useful Time-Saving Bash Aliases

Defining bash aliases has always been a neat little trick for saving time on the command line. When learning about aliases, a few ideas may immediately jump out. There are also some you may not have thought about. I hope to uncover at least one of those. In this post, I’ll list 5 of my […]

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February 9, 2020

Linux

Linux | How To Easily Compress a Video With ffmpeg

Every here and there, you may come across a use case where it’s necessary to reduce a video file by 50-80% without any noticeable loss of quality. Often times it’s for front-end performance reasons, but can also come in handy if a server has an upload limit(50MB on a typical WordPress site for example). There […]

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January 1, 2021

HTML Laravel Blade PHP

Let’s Learn Laravel Blade: Layouts and Partials (Part 3)

In the last post, we saw how easy it is to conditionally display markup and use inline logic in blade templates. Conditionals are a very useful tool and you will probably use them often. In this post, we will explore how to reduce repetitive code and help adhere to DRY(don’t repeat yourself) principals. What’s one […]

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June 25, 2020

CSS SCSS

Let’s Learn SASS & SCSS: Extending your knowledge with @extends and @mixins (Part 4)

There are 3 posts before this article, checking them out might provide additional context for this article. You can check out part 1(getting up and running), part 2(setting up a build), and part 3(variables and nesting). Now that we’ve covered all of the SASS basics, it’s time to dive into the more advanced features! There […]

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September 6, 2021

HTML Laravel Blade PHP

Let’s Learn Laravel Blade: Components (Part 4)

In the last posts, we learned about layouts and partials, but Laravel provides even more functionality. You may ask: why use a component when you can just use partials? In Laravel, components are packed with additional functionality. Components give you separation of concerns, letting you outsource PHP logic to a method outside of your blade […]

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June 29, 2020

CSS SCSS

Let’s Learn SASS & SCSS: Diving Deeper into Mixins & Extends(Part 5)

There are four posts before this one. You can check out part 1(getting up and running, part 2(setting up the build), part 3(nesting and variables), part 4(diving into mixins and extends). Mixins and extends are cool, right? In our last article, we dived into the basics of both and have a good idea of what […]

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Robert Bunn

Excellent person to work with. Would highly recommend him and will definitely use his services for future projects.

Andrew Magruder

Fast turnaround of exactly what we needed. Able to work with less than perfect specifications. Worked around a significant technical limitation of the framework that we required him to use in a satisfactory way.

Crystal Rothwell

Brandon is a great developer. He is very reliable. I hired him to help with some extra work and he did a great job. Thanks Brandon.

Gregg Henry

Brandon completed the project on time and was able to deliver a great website experience. We had some difficult/non-typical ideas for him to develop and he came through on them. Very happy with his work!

Crystal Rothwell

Brandon always does a great job and is very easy to work with.

Chase

Brandon did great work for us, would recommend and will likely use his expertise again in the future.

John Henzy

Brandon communicates very well, follows directions, and saved our project at the 11th hour. He is very approachable and didn't get frustrated when we had to make some quick changes. Highly recommend his services and is one of the best I've worked with.

Element 74

Great work! We would definitely recommend Brandon to anyone looking for WordPress development.

Voodoo manufacturing

Once again, Brandon was a pleasure to work with. He kept me up to date on the progress of the project and delivered the completed files right on time.

Voodoo Manufacturing

I had a great experience working with Brandon. He asked all the right questions and kept me updated throughout the duration of the project. He completed the project right on schedule and everything turned out perfect!

James Giannini

Brandon is a true pro. He helped me bring my designs to life, which helped me get the job I wanted. He's organized, friendly, and always brings good ideas to the table. I would absolutely recommend him to any future clients.

Crystal Rothwell

My experience working with Brandon was very positive. He helped me on a variety of client projects and completed them all successfully. In particular, his help on the labelprint.ca forms was invaluable. He helped update a large amount of custom css and javascript on several long web forms to be compatible with the new version of the form plugin's code. I look forward to working with him again.