My name is Diane Douglas. I like to make stuff. This is a place where I can share that stuff.


I got my B.A. in Music Technology at Berklee College of Music. My first developer job was at Keith McMillen Instruments, where I wrote software for expressive MIDI controllers built for live music performance. Then, I decided to broaden my horizons and get into web development, so I went to a coding bootcamp called Epicodus. Shortly after graduation, I was hired on to teach and develop curriculum in PHP, Drupal and JavaScript.


3 years later, it was time for fresh challenges. I wanted a break from teaching to focus on honing my code, my craft. Since then I have become a lead developer at Weblinc, branching out from back end into front end development and currently the lead on 4 heavy traffic E-Commerce sites, including Sanrio and Do It Best. In my spare time I write audio plugins in C++ and Max/MSP.


I write code the same way I write music - piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle. I make software. I play guitar. I make electronic music. I also like to cook dessert. All of these let you build on patterns to make something new and fun.


Deploying Angular and Ember Apps on Firebase

I used to think that deployment is something you can just tack on at the end of a project and that the real hard work is in the initial coding and testing. Not so. It's hard to find a reliable set of instructions in any one piece of documentation, so here you go. Free hosting on Firebase for any shiny new Ember.js app or Angular2 app made with their respective CLIs. This will work with a Firebase database too.

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