I am still working on my portfolio. If nothing else, this process has helped me understand all of the moving parts of this web development/design process. I spent a lot of time this week working through various Illustrator tutorials. A few months ago, I did the same thing with Firework (a program no longer in …
Archives for Month: July 2016
This Week in Coding: #008
This week was very weird, I had a very difficult time focusing, despite staying posted in the library everyday for 6 hours. On a personal note, I was tired as hell and couldn’t figure out why. On a professional note, I started it off spending my entire Monday applying for jobs, some media (a girl …
Trying out a new text editor
This week I tried out a new text editor. For the last few weeks I’ve downloaded and installed quite a few. I’m working on a Windows machine so I’m limited in that regard. Some programs I’ve installed and just peeked into include Sublime Text, VSCode, Brackets, TweakStyle and Atom. I work with Notepad++ and Netbeans …
This Week in Coding: #007
Confession: I’m a recovering perfectionist. I try to get everything just right the first time and that hold me back a lot. For example, I’ve worked on my WordPress boilerplate for the last few weeks and yes it’s a boilerplate that I should use for other projects but having not completed it is sort of …
Deep Work, #100DaysofCode, and what’s next in my so-called developer life
Long post: you’ve been warned. Back in May before I took an unplanned hiatus I wrote “There is so much to learn…” on my excitement about web development but also feeling very overwhelmed. I said, “I’m in the process of clarifying my goals and developing a sufficient action plan, hopefully I’ll have the balls to …
Survey of HTML5 Part 1: HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices
Last week I completed part 1 of the edX HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices course facilitated by the W3Cx group. It’s the first HTML related course I’ve taken since I started the FreeCodeCamp curriculum (one day I’ll make it back over there). My reasons for enrolling in this course were to reacquaint myself with …
This Week in Coding: #006
This week in coding… I went down the DevTips Youtube rabbit hole and loved everything I watched. Some of my favorite videos include: This is a reminder that I just need to create version 1 of my portfolio and stop obsessing over whether it will be THE ONE to make or break my career. I …