Connor Smyth

Hello! My name is Connor Smyth and I'm a Junior Full Stack Developer at Art & Science. I specialize in Laravel, WordPress, and Node.js applications with various front-end interfaces. I also enjoy building mobile games and apps, developing APIs, and being an active member of the dev community.

Featured Projects

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Trivia API

A publicly available trivia API created with Laravel and PHP web scraping. The API is based on jService.io. With a total of 96,221 questions I plan on creating various applications to leverage this API in the future. Try it yourself now!

BlockDown

A fun new puzzle game that will challenge your visual-spatial skills. Normal mode is a twist on a familiar game with an added level of skill. Freeplay mode is a more casual game where the goal is to rack up as many points as possible.
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Orpheum & TedX 2019

TEDxToronto, Canada’s largest TEDx event, held its 11th annual conference on October 26th, 2019. As a part of this event, Art & Science exhibited The Orpheum – a touch-powered musical instrument and art installation built to light up the event.

  • PHP

  • Laravel

  • WordPress

  • JavaScript

  • Node.js

  • Vue.js

  • jQuery

  • C#

  • Unity

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    Shopify

  • CSS

  • Sass

  • Python

  • MySQL

  • Linux

  • Unix Shell

  • Azure

  • AWS

Recent Posts

Master Your IDE

July 1, 2020

Every pragmatic programmer knows how important it is to master their IDE (integrated development environment). I created a checklist of easy ways to know when you’ve mastered it. Since I primarily use PHP Storm in my workplace I will be providing examples and screenshots from the software. Move and make selections by character, word, line, ...

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Updating Laravel 4.2 to 5.0

June 22, 2020

The Pragmatic Programmer brings up an interesting idea that I think Laravel could have learned from earlier on. Avoid inheritance and decouple components. For this article, I will specifically be discussing Laravel and PHP so the examples will of course be from that language. I recently took up the task of updating an old Laravel ...

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Books This Year – Update

June 15, 2020

I wrote a blog post earlier this year discussing the books I had read so far this year. You can read it here, WEEKLY NEWSLETTER – MAY 11, 2020. The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan I thought this was a great book. It was eye-opening to see the realities of American agriculture and the incredible impact ...

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