Oh hey there! Long time, no see. I have been busy coding and reading but of course not documenting it here. I’ve spent a lot of time on my job search which has taken me away from my coding study but I’m still pushing. All of that to say, it is that time of the …
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All the things that glitter!
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 …
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 …
What I Learned: Interviewing for junior “technical” positions
As promised, I’m sharing my first two experiences interviewing for a technical position. I completed both of them mostly for experience. I have a strong sales/marketing background and while I excel at the soft skills portion of interviews (I can’t remember a bad interview in the last 6 years), I knew from reading a lot …
There is so much to learn…
I am excited about my “new” interests and path but every step towards progress feels so small because there is just so much to learn or so much I feel I need to learn to see achieve my goals. Sometimes I do think, “maybe I am in over my head” and these are thoughts that …
FreeCodeCamp: HTML5/CSS
I finally started the FreeCodeCamp curriculum today, beginning with HTML5/CSS. I’m pretty proficient in both so it was a welcome refresher. I completed that section of the course in 2-3 hours, although they estimated 5. It included 68 mini-lessons or challenges, as they’re referred to in the curriculum. I watched Love & Hip Hop ATL …
Learning Git and GitHub
Note to self & others: The folks at CodeNewbie suggested blogging for beginners and while I’m not a complete beginner, I’m not sure that my blogging is meaningful at this stage. There’s a lot I don’t know and I’m not able to fully explain. As a writer it’s difficult to share these “half-thoughts” and under-developed …
a few thoughts on programming & “technical ghettos”
I read this article a few weeks and the title is hella triggering. While I see where they’re going, I think a few things are off. With all the talk about how certain jobs in tech are in demand and everyone needs to run, sprint to school to learn all of these critical keys needed …
7 days ago… I started learning to code full-time
I missed last week and there’s a story behind that. I’m a big fan of The Golden Girls, so humor me for a few minutes – this might be lengthy (it is!). Picture this… last Tuesday I’m sitting at my work desk listening to #CodeNewbie podcasts & queuing up this post to pass the time …