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  • Developing the Hometown Tourist

    I loved writing the Hometown Tourist, and it got great feedback from site visitors and community members. Though I haven’t written an article for several years, the website continues to get a good number of monthly page views. I’ve wanted to get back to it for a long time.

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  • Benefits of Being Vagrant

    I recently got a new computer. Yay!

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  • My First Angular App

    One of the Intermediate Front End Development projects for FreeCodeCamp is to build a Local Weather App, a single page app that uses geolocation and a weather API to show the current weather in a user’s location. They recommend using the Open Weather API. Requirements include providing a button that toggles units between Celsius and Fahrenheit and setting a different icon or background image based on weather conditions.

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  • Starting a New Website

    In today’s world, we expect businesses and organizations to have a website - even small businesses. Small business owners may feel overwhelmed and not know where to begin this process, especially early on when they’re focused on building the business from the ground up and trying to keep costs low.

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  • From Writing Essays to Writing Code

    As a student at Dana College, I graduated with majors in English Secondary Education and History. I was able to meet my math and science requirements through my ACT scores and AP credit, so I didn’t take a single math or science class during my undergraduate years. I did take a statistics class for my master’s degree, but even that was geared toward education majors and involved more general concepts rather than specific math application.

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  • iOS Development on Udacity - Week One

    I started Udacity’s Intro to iOS Development with Swift course this past weekend. I can’t believe how much I’ve learned in just a few days. Our last assignment for Lesson 3 is to write a blog post about what we’ve learned so far.  It would take way too long to write it all up, but here are some of the cool things I learned about XCode.

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  • Rails Hosting

    I’ve been hunting for the perfect Rails host for sites that I’ve built for two friends. One owns a small business, and the other needed a personal website for his music.  Cost is a big factor, but speed, reliability and security are important, too.  I’ve researched several options - Heroku, WebFaction, Digital Ocean, and OpenShift.  Each has different pros and cons, but after trying all of them, I think Heroku is still the best solution for smaller businesses and individuals.

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  • So Far in 2015

    Recap

    January:
    I commit to focusing on JavaScript and the FreeCodeCamp program. I even write a blog post about it.

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  • Date Picker Part Two

    Upon further examination, my wonderful date picker solution didn’t work out quite as expected. It seemed to work fine in some cases, but other times the record would fail to save. This only happened in browsers that used the jQuery UI Date Picker. (Things worked fine on Chrome, which has a native date picker.)When I looked more closely at the “successful” cases, I realized that the values for month and day were reversed. For example, if the selected date was March 5th (3/5), the saved date would be May 3rd (5/3).

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  • Cross Browser Date Picker

    This week I learned that Safari and Firefox handle date fields differently than Chrome. Chrome provides a really nice, native date picker, and it ensures that entries conform to the correct pattern. Safari and Firefox don’t support date fields and treat them as regular text fields instead.

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