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So in the past couple of days I’ve been making a lot of… I suppose I’d call them tweaks, because nothing feels big enough to consider it a major change. Could I even make major changes in a two day timespan without just hunkering down and doing nothing else? Probably not. So what have I…
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In my ongoing saga of “How do I build a web app?” I decided that a good first start would be to build just a regular program that does the things I’d ideally like my first web app to do. In this case, in the spirit of National Novel Writing Month, I’ve been thinking about…
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Today I got started exploring Docker for the first time, using A Docker Tutorial for Beginners. Reclaim Cloud runs using Docker containers, and a few of us will be doing some research on it in the next month or so, so it seemed like a good thing to try. Docker is, as I understand it,…
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Just a short post today. I’ve been following up on the practice exercises from last time, building a class and using it to create objects. I ran into some issues with it, though — I can’t access my new class and its constructor from the browser console. My first suspicion is that it’s because I…
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Another day, another example of JavaScript doing things strangely, where strange is defined in the self-centered manner of “not how I would expect, based on what I learned”. This time it’s the flexible method of creating a class: either using a declaration: Or using an expression: According to the lesson the trend is towards using…
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Bracket Notation The first big thing today was learning about accessing the properties of different objects. The standard notation – aka, what I’m used to – is dot notation (object.property), but today I discovered bracket notation, which looks like object[“property”]. This is used for cases where the property is a variable rather than a constant,…
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As per usual, the “first” day was all setup, and the real day one is where the learning starts. I’m following along with this tutorial in LinkedIn Learning, to get familiar with some of the basics of JavaScript. Fun Little Tidbits Special Commenting Trick: First, I learned that you can put your cursor on a…
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Been a while, hasn’t it? Anyway, I’ve finally had a bit of time now to sit down and revisit the tutorial. The next steps in the tutorial (the link is here if you’re interested) are regarding adding picture/file uploads to the server (so, section 4). This bit started off pretty simple. I did hit that…
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It took me a little while to come back to this, as I was never really able to properly figure out what was going wrong with Yarn. Eventually I decided that, since I also have an Ubuntu terminal and Linux running on my machine, I’d get set up over there instead, which let me bypass…
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Well, day 1.5? Day 2? The point is, I did a (very little) bit of the setup yesterday, but ran into a roadblock that I couldn’t resolve until now. I’ve been working for a while on how to learn/run Ruby, and for now I’m settled on following some of the Rails Girls guides for creating…
