Author: Danny Tran

For my capstone project, we were assigned to work on an a client’s existing codebase. They were using MongoDB for their database so I spent some time researching how to get started as quick as possible. First find out which product of MongoDB the project is using. There are different offerings of MongoDB: Atlas (the… Continue reading Your Day 1 MongoDB Quick Guide

There’s a joke about the term “years of experience”. The joke comes from people complaining that their coworker is someone with 10 years of experience but is actually someone that has repeated their 1 year of experience, ten times. I actually worked with someone like this.  During my summer break, I worked at an optometry… Continue reading Training Junior Employees

Currently I work at a glasses company in Washington where I am responsible for bringing the company online. My team is responsible for managing the website and inventory through Shopify. I’ve learned a lot about glasses and the retail world including product photography, marketing and the Shopify platform. The company plans to launch the store… Continue reading My current and future career thoughts

When I think of new technologies, I think of Flutter. Last year Flutter Web transitioned from beta to stable. But even though it’s stable, it doesn’t mean that it is production-ready. I’ve been part of the Flutter community for several years and people complain that Flutter supports too many platforms (Android, iOS, web, Windows, macOS… Continue reading My experience with Flutter and mini update on my capstone project

What got you started with computers or software? When I was a kid, a friend of my dad gave him a Windows 98 desktop and it had Starcraft installed. At the time I was too young to understand how to play Starcraft but somehow I stumbled upon NeoPets and spent my childhood trying to figure… Continue reading Hello world!