techLog = [7, mocha, unit testing, JavaScript]

by | Jan 13, 2018 | Tech Journal

Today was supposed to be a half day at the coLab before heading to a soccer game at 1pm.  Waking up to another four inches of snow that I did not want to deal with meant staying curled up in bed until 10am.  Besides which, I know I have been fighting something lately...

techLog = [6, JavaScript, twitch app]

by | Jan 12, 2018 | Tech Journal

Today I busted my twitch app after finding out why it wasn’t fully working before: https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/twitch-app-not-showing-online-users/168229/2 And spending most of the day trying to wrap my head around the data bits and fixing it. Day 6 of...

techLog = [5, coding, JavaScript];

by | Jan 11, 2018 | Tech Journal

The plan today was to write code! I have two Intermediate and all four of the Advanced projects left to submit for my Front End Development Certification at freeCodeCamp.  Out of the six projects left, the Simon game is the only project that I haven’t done much...

techLog = [4, HTML, CSS, networking];

by | Jan 10, 2018 | Tech Journal

Can’t say I got much accomplished today other than networking.  My anxiety was horrible today (probably due to the networking), making it incredibly hard to focus.  I did get a bit of code written here and there, and tried to get into my Udemy Advanced Web...

techLog = [3, chores, planning];

by | Jan 9, 2018 | Tech Journal

Tuesdays are “home days” for me while my spouse has the car in another city working. Day 3 of #100daysofblogging: Worked around the house (garbage, recycling, dishes, tidied up) Updated Trello boards, re-prioritized work, created/updated labels Added...

techLog = [2, React, Marketing, this];

by | Jan 8, 2018 | Tech Journal

My plan for this quarter is to become as comfortable as I can with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.  So much has changed and evolved since I learned them in college almost 20 years ago! My goal for the year is to become proficient with advanced JavaScript and React. Day 2...

techLog = [1, sh, guides, backups];

by | Jan 7, 2018 | Tech Journal

Writing code has never been a problem for me.  Writing blog posts on the other hand… I was just thinking that rather than doing #100daysofcode (which I had been contemplating), I should do #100daysofblogging to keep a journal of my work progress which extends...

1st freeCodeCamp Intermediate Algorithm in 6 months

by | Dec 4, 2017 | Web Programmer

Completed my first Intermediate Algorithm Scripting algorithm on freeCodeCamp in six months today!  I had worked on two different contracts for about three of those six months and the rest of the time I have been working on “draining the swamp”, my...

You have now entered the Twilight Zone

by | Jul 19, 2017 | Web Programmer

This year is 2017 and I would have started using PHP in 2001.  At some point in time, I would have worked on moving from mysql to mysqli, learned stored procedures, and Object-Oriented PHP, and migrated to using PDO.  Over the past few weeks, I have worked on...