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Alan Montgomery

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I'm a 27-year-old Software Developer based in Northern Ireland. My current full-time role is a Mobile Team Lead where I develop apps for our company using the Ionic Framework and React.

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Mobile DevCast - A podcast dedicated to mobile app development and web native technologies

Jan 24, 2021 2 min read 52 views

This is something I've been wanting to do for quite some time now. Start a podcast on the things I love in the development world. That is mobile development. Both for the web and for native devices like iOS and Android. The only difference is, I use ...

How to easily understand Flexbox CSS - (Part 2)

Nov 14, 2020 4 min read 217 views

Welcome back to this mini series. In Part 1 we looked at the main display property to activate or enable flexbox css on a contrainer element. I also talked about the different types of flex-direction you could use. If you missed it you can read Part ...

How to easily understand Flexbox CSS - (Part 1)

Nov 9, 2020 4 min read 1.7K views

In this mini-series, I will be taking you through how to use flexbox CSS, in a simple, easy to understand way. You can really empower your projects and websites with the use of flexbox CSS and reduce your lines of code drastically. I have also releas...

Using React Context API with NextJS

Nov 2, 2020 5 min read 894 views

One huge pain point in React (and NextJS) is having to pass props through multi-level components. The bigger the application or project gets, the more painful this becomes. This is because of how React is structured, in a tree like fashion with data ...

Programming is like building Lego blocks

Oct 31, 2020 2 min read 114 views

This may seem like a weird thing to compare programming or coding to, but it's so true, for a few reasons. Building upon what you've done already When you have a piece of code, you can stop and continue building upon your solution at any time - you'r...

The importance of planning a website

Oct 30, 2020 3 min read 129 views

This is probably one of the most important steps in the whole web development process. Aside from all the coding, styling and technical things, we as web developers have to do - we also have to plan out and think about how we want our site to look li...