Daragh Ó Tuama

Content & Production Manager

Daragh is Code Institute’s Content Manager. With a long history in journalism, he has a huge interest in all things tech. Daragh also has a background in radio and TV, and has presented and contributed to shows on RTÉ, Newstalk, Today FM, TG4, and many more. He has a degree in modern Irish and history, and more recently, he has attained a certificate in sustainability studies. Daragh is also a videographer and is responsible for much of the content delivered to Code Institute. Daragh joined Code Institute in 2018.

Front-End Developer Career Paths

Front-end developers are essential to designing and developing websites and web apps. They are in charge of designing and implementing the visual components with which users interact, such as layouts, buttons, and forms. Front-end development may be an exciting and lucrative career path, with the opportunity to work in various industries and on multiple projects.  This […]

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Community Stories: Fiona’s Story

Below is an extract from Code Institute’s recent e-Book entitled, “Community: your key to career change success -Tips from students who have worn your shoes and from employers that want to hire you”. In this story, we read about Fiona. Fiona had a successful career in the pensions industry but knew she did not want […]

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Visual Studio JavaScript Tips  

Visual Studio offers several advanced language capabilities, including debugging, code navigation, formatting, refactoring, etc. When testing a piece of JavaScript code, you might wish to run it right away inside Visual Studio Code (VSCode).  Installing Node.js locally on your computer and then running the script from Node.js is usually the simplest approach to running JavaScript […]

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Community Stories – Go-to-guy to GitHub wizard

Below is an extract from Code Institute’s recent e-Book entitled, “Community: your key to career change success -Tips from students who have worn your shoes and from employers that want to hire you”. This is Anthony’s story. Anthony worked in procurement and corporate compliance for the Irish Health Service Executive. The department struggled with online […]

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How to Change HTML Background Colour  

You can design unique layouts by changing the background colour of a web page or an element on the page. In the past, you could modify a page’s or element’s background colour using the background color attribute. However, in the most recent version of HTML, this attribute has been deprecated in favour of the far better […]

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Community Stories: Naoise’s story

Below is an extract from Code Institute’s recent e-Book entitled, “Community: your key to career change success -Tips from students who have worn your shoes and from employers that want to hire you”. In this story, we read about Naoise, a hackathon enthusiast who is now a Senior Development Manager. Naoise wanted to plug the […]

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Community Stories – From demolition to diversity

Below is an extract from Code Institute’s recent e-Book entitled, “Community: your key to career change success -Tips from students who have worn your shoes and from employers that want to hire you”. In this story, we read about Kenan, a stand-up guy who started his career in demolition but now works as a developer […]

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JavaScript Regex          

A string of characters called a regular expression creates a search pattern. Text search and text replacement operations can both be performed using the search pattern.       This blog will discuss in more detail how using regular expressions can benefit you in the programming world.   JavaScript Validation  Do you know what form validation is? JavaScript, […]

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JavaScript Variables  

Every programming language has a fundamental requirement to store data in memory such that computations can be performed on it. The memory location requires a name to store and retrieve this data, and this name is “Variable.”  Additionally, only one type of data can be stored in each memory location. The variable’s “DataType” helps to […]

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Community Stories – Getting on your e-bike to work

Below is an extract from Code Institute’s recent e-Book entitled, “Community: your key to career change success -Tips from students who have worn your shoes and from employers that want to hire you”. In this story, we read about Maya, a perfectionist risk-taker who is now a software test engineer with Bosch e-bikes. Maya was […]

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