Patrick BrennanThe Importance of React’s setState() Method in Class ComponentsState is the most important concept in React. State can store any mutable data; such as current user data, the number of likes on a post…3 min read·Jan 27, 2022----
Patrick BrennanHow My Musical Background Guided Me On My Programming JourneyI have been playing guitar since I was nine years old. After a year or two of lazily plunking out half-muted chords and tuneless renditions…5 min read·Jan 26, 2022----
Patrick BrennanCINEMADDICT: A React + Redux Single Page ApplicationI have been a movie obsessive since I was a ten-year-old kid watching Luke Skywalker cross lightsabers with Darth Vader in an old, beat-up…5 min read·Jan 23, 2022----
Patrick BrennanUsing The ‘Faker’ Ruby GemIn the course of building out my Ruby on Rails and JavaScript projects for the Flatiron School’s Software Engineering program, I took extra…4 min read·Jan 5, 2022----
Patrick Brennan“JavaScript JEOPARDY!” — A Single-Page JavaScript Web AppEver since I was a kid I’ve had a love and affinity for trivia. Building my repository of utterly useless knowledge over the course of my…3 min read·Nov 13, 2021----
Patrick BrennanBANDBUILDER — A Ruby On Rails AppApologies for beginning this otherwise innocuous programming post with something so heavy, but for millions — potentially billions — of…6 min read·Sep 16, 2021----
Patrick BrennanNovellogger — A Reading List Sinatra Web AppAn interactive reading list built using Ruby, Sinatra and ActiveRecord.4 min read·Jul 15, 2021----
Patrick BrennanRuby CLI Data Gem Project: Rex — The Movie Recommendation BotA post about my first coding project: a command line bot that recommends movies to you based on the streaming service of your choice!4 min read·Jul 15, 2021----