Matthew Barrus

Matthew Barrus

Member Since October 16, 2015

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  • Company

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  • Job Title

    Director of Technology

215 Achievements

  • Exporting Designs
  • Sketch Features
  • Introducing Sketch
  • What Is WordPress?
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • JavaScript Functions
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • Putting it all Together
  • Actions, Dispatch and Reducers. Oh my!
  • Modularizing the React Scoreboard Application
  • Getting Started with Redux
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Classes
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Going Further with Routes
  • Navigating and Nesting Routes
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • Component Lifecycle
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Table Relationships
  • Database Keys
  • Database Normalization
  • Designing Dataflow
  • Stateful Components
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Building Forms with Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts with the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Working with Media Queries
  • CSS Animation Basics
  • Understanding CSS Transitions and Transforms
  • Understanding Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Interactive Visualizations
  • Styling and Scaling Data
  • Compass Helper Functions
  • Compass Layout and Typography
  • Getting Started with Compass
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Basic Selectors
  • Data Binding with D3
  • Selections with D3
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Getting Started with iOS Development
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Finishing the Prototype
  • Grid Layout and UI Components
  • Getting to Know Foundation for Apps
  • Spriting with Compass
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Doing More with Express
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • The Request and Response Objects in Express
  • Developing Express Apps Like a Boss
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Build and Share a Unity Game
  • Game Audio
  • Score, Enemies, and Game State
  • Pickups
  • Player Input and Cameras
  • The Unity Editor and Scene Setup
  • Introduction to Video Games
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • Running Apps on a Device
  • View Controllers and Views
  • Control Flow with Conditional Statements
  • Control Flow With Loops
  • Swift Dictionaries
  • Introduction to Collections
  • Swift Operators
  • Swift Types
  • An Introduction to Swift Programming
  • Build a Pomodoro App
  • Writing Your Own Java Annotation
  • Using Java's Built-In Annotations
  • Event Planning
  • Design a Better App
  • Graphical User Interfaces
  • Advanced Tooling
  • IDE Exploration
  • How it Works
  • Efficiency!
  • Exploring the Java Collections Framework
  • Organizing Data
  • Getting There
  • Delivering the MVP
  • Creating the MVP
  • Harnessing the Power of Objects
  • Meet Objects
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Distributable OOP Packages
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • Test Doubles
  • Acceptance Tests
  • Organizing your Tests
  • Creating Your Tests
  • Tools for Testers
  • How To Test Our Code
  • The Project
  • Introducing SharedPreferences
  • The Activity Lifecycle
  • Interacting with Google+ APIs
  • Connecting to Play Services
  • Interacting with Your API
  • Adding Play Services to Your App
  • Migrating a SQLite Database
  • CRUD Operations with SQLite
  • Using SQLite for Structured Data
  • Creating an Icon
  • Key-Value Saving with SharedPreferences
  • File Storage
  • Introduction to Data Persistence
  • Adding Push Notifications from Parse.com
  • Customizing the Action Bar
  • Updating Other GridViews
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Save for the Web
  • Customizing a GridView for Friends
  • Customizing a ListView for the Inbox
  • Adding Images and a Mockup
  • Using Custom Styles and Themes
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Starting with Design Mockups
  • Self-Destruction
  • Logo Design
  • Retrieving and Viewing Messages
  • Creating a Wireframe
  • Introducing Adobe Illustrator
  • Sending Messages
  • Capturing Photos and Videos
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Relating Users in Parse.com
  • Using Fragments for Tabs
  • Adding Users Using Parse.com
  • Starting the App
  • Acting on List Item Taps
  • Lists with RecyclerViews
  • Using Parcelable Data
  • Custom ListViews
  • Standard ListViews
  • Updating the Data Model
  • Hooking up the Model to the View
  • Building the Weather UI
  • Working with JSON
  • Concurrency and Error Handling
  • Networking
  • Exploring an API
  • Using Git for Android
  • Getting Started with Genymotion
  • Getting Started with Android Studio
  • Publishing on Google Play
  • Finishing the User Interface
  • The Model-View-Controller Pattern
  • Intents and Multiple Activities
  • User Input
  • Testing and Debugging
  • Improving Our Code
  • Coding the Fun Facts
  • Basic Android Programming
  • Creating the Initial Screen Layout
  • Getting Started with Android
  • Newbie