#frontendengineering

The Problem: Legacy CSS layout methods are fragile. They break on different screen sizes, require constant "clearfix" hacks, and make centering elements a nightmare. In 2026, there is no excuse for a non-responsive UI.

The Solution: CSS Flexbox Mastery. Flexbox provides a predictable way to distribute space and align items in a container, even when their size is unknown or dynamic. It is the backbone of modern, responsive frontend engineering.

The Protocol: 📦 Container Logic: Initialize with display: flex to activate the flex context. 🔄 Directional Flow: Control axis alignment with flex-direction and flex-wrap. ⚖️ Precision Alignment: Use justify-content and align-items to snap elements into place. 📱 Responsive Growth: Leverage flex-grow and flex-shrink for fluid, organic scaling.

Stop guessing your layouts. Start engineering them with precision.

👇 ASSETS: 📃 Blog: https://scriptdatainsights.blogspot.com/2026/02/css-flexbox-mastery-guide-2026.html 🎞 Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/NV8O4CSMqoc 🛒 Gumroad: https://scriptdatainsights.gumroad.com/l/february-skills-2026

Here’s a function I wrote at ParkMe to do what the title suggests. We were running into an issue where the Bootstrap Datepicker, using the DatePair library, was showing the wrong date if it fell into DST territory.

Here’s the juice:

// Takes the start or end date, // gets the remainder of the two offsets // and returns a new date with the factored offset. this.compensateForDST = function (date) {        var internalDate = new Date(date),              newDate = new Date(),              newDateOffset = newDate.getTimezoneOffset(),              internalDateOffset = internalDate.getTimezoneOffset(),              offset = (internalDateOffset - newDateOffset) * 60000,              internalDateEpoch = internalDate.getTime(),              combinedTime = internalDateEpoch + offset,              combinedDate = new Date(combinedTime);

       return combinedDate; };

Then for the start and end date, use it like this:

Build the App of your Dreams

Because the folks at the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce really believe in economic growth in our community, they’re providing a scholarship for one lucky student of our Tampa Bay - St. Petersburg Front End Engineering course! 

If you’ve wanted to take the plunge into the world of full-time web development, the St. Petersburg Chamber and The Iron Yard are providing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to start a new career with hands-on training, mentoring and job placement support.  

The Iron Yard is very excited to announce the second cohort of Front End Engineering students in Tampa Bay starting January 26th and even more excited to announce a partnership with the St. Petersburg Chamber to provide a $3,000 scholarship towards tuition.  Here are the details:

St. Petersburg Chamber "What would you build?" Scholarship 

We want to know what app or website you've always wanted to build, then give you the skills to make it a reality at The Iron Yard!  

In order to apply for the scholarship, simply apply to The Iron Yard’s Tampa Bay class starting on January 26th and write a short 250 word essay explaining what you would build when you graduate from The Iron Yard (you can add this essay to the end of the form in the "Anything else?" field). 

Apply now: https://theironyard.typeform.com/to/EcL2Zc

By Tim Whitacre, Front End Engineering Instructor

Over the years, I’ve worked on different size teams. Whether it is a large, medium, or small company, there are always positives and negatives. I also worked for a remote company for about 4 years. While this was a lot of fun (think coding in your pajamas), I still felt like I was working on a really small team.

While at that remote company, I started to see my coding skills become stale. Even though I was working with some amazing developers, since I was not sitting in the same room with them and we didn’t have that lunch time chatter about the hot new tools, I felt my learning come to a slow crawl. This is very problematic as a developer, because you need to stay up to date as much as possible.

So, what can you do? Well I guess you could look for that ideal job where you are working side by side with some other amazing developers, but that is sometimes hard to find. The way that I solved it was two-fold. One, I found a local coworking space and started going there. The second was I started going to all of the tech related meetups I could possibly find.

Join us December 12 at the historic M. Rich Center downtown - The Iron Yard's new home in Atlanta - for our Front End Engineering Demo Day. Our 16 engineers will present full applications, the culmination of their 12 weeks of training at The Iron Yard, to an audience of local tech companies, engineers, and supporters of the tech community. All are welcomed to attend!

Presentations will be followed by a happy hour in the space so you can get to know the instructors & graduates in an informal setting.

Khalid came out of the oil and gas industry. He had a successful career, but wanted to push himself to learn more, grow and make an impact. He joined The Iron Yard to follow his passion for programming and reach those goals. Read more about his story below.

Hi, my name is Khalid Adil. Before the Iron Yard, I was working full-time in the oil and gas industry here in Houston.

To me, life is all about making a difference, and I felt as if I wasn’t making enough of an impact with the company I was at. I felt as if my learning had come to a standstill, and that made me pretty dissatisfied with my 9-to-5. After some basic experimenting with HTML and JavaScript in school and tinkering around with it in my own time, I found that I really loved what could be accomplished with it and thought, “if only I knew more!”

The Iron Yard is a great place to learn to code, not just because of their world-class instructors, but also how deeply they’re embedded within the local startup community. I love that The Iron Yard was an entrepreneurial venture originally and how they continue to develop startups with their own accelerator program (not many other code schools can claim that).

Joey is one of our students who has been working extremely hard to make a better life for him and his family. He's always been passionate about programming and has tried to teach himself, but as with many people who try to learn on their own he ran into road blocks that kept him from making a career change.

At The Iron Yard he's found the coaching, mentorship and deep-dive instruction that will help him launch a new life as a developer. Check out his story below.

Before being a student at the Iron Yard, I worked as a Senior IT Analyst for a natural gas fortune 500 company. Before then, I worked for many other large oil industry companies, adding up to a 15 year IT career. It was not fulfilling. It was stressful and full of over the top expectations. Even so, my experience did allow me to build many soft-skills, travel, work with others, manage teams and earn a stable income.

I chose to leave my IT career to become a student at the Iron Yard for a few reasons. One was to take the risk and start again on the dream I had left behind when I decided to drop out of college to support my family. Having a void of fulfillment for 15 years took its toll and I needed to take a step back into this dream. I wanted to position myself to help others in a way that I could do my best for them while in the same time being happier.

Another reason is that after researching the Iron Yard, I found some amazing staff and approaches in helping people to become coders in a quick and genuine way. Knowing that the instructors work in the fields they teach is exactly how it should be. Having instructors that can actually understand the material but also use it daily is something that many universities/colleges do not have. I also found that the school is growing very rapidly and it wasn't because they were just reading from books.

After the first day of being a student I knew I would be able to learn many coding languages in a way that allowed me to be successful. It's tough, but the way that the instructors and staff have set things up for the students to learn is by far the best approach I have ever seen—not just with the attention to details, but also how they care for each and every student, pushing them to succeed.