Tag: tutorial

  • Elasticsearch!

    For longer than I’d like to admit, I kept hearing about this thing called Elasticsearch. Now I have an idea of what it is! Over the last week, I completed the Beginner’s Crash Course to Elastic Stack (YouTube mini videos). I am by no means claiming that I KNOW Elasticsearch, but I believe I have…

  • Diving Back In. Again…

    Well, I allowed my education to take a back seat again… I have relocated to another state, and my goal is to build the skills needed to always get a remote job/career, so I can live anywhere! Fortunately, my progress has not been as stagnant as my postings. I made a page on my GitHub…

  • Big Step in FreeCodeCamp!

    I have been slacking. I can justify the heck out of it, but that does not change the fact that there is no GOOD reason for being lazy the last 30 days or so. But now that I am getting back in the driver’s seat, a big step has finally been completed on FreeCodeCamp. I…

  • Backend Check In

    Since my last post, I have kept at it, building the backend to my app (and rebuilding the app itself). A lot of time has been taken up by figuring out what to use. I believe I have settled on Alamofire for the network connection to the “API” (quotes are used here because it is not…

  • Finally, a post about wordpress…

    This post is work related, and as you can tell by the title, relates to wordpress. On the work blog, we had social media sharing buttons. One of the bosses used an SEO program to scan the site, and the social media buttons returned less than favorable data. (I am purposefully not mentioning the site,…

  • More with Udemy and Python

    Another tutorial has fallen before me!!! This time, I have taken down REST APIs with Flask and Python. This one was more enjoyable than the previous course. I felt it was more on point for the description, but we also went down a possibly “unneeded” rabbit hole. (These opinions may be coming from my inexperience as…

  • La Petit Errors

    Let me say, there is probably no such thing as a tiny error. The devil is in the details. And apparently the bane of my existence… Recently, two tiny, major errors caused me to waste time on items I should not have. The first error involves modifying a tutorial. For project details, you can see it here.…

  • edX Comes to the Rescue

    After deciding to not complete (and pay for) the 30 Days of Python, I turned my sights back to edX! I have started the course Using Python for Research, and have just completed the homework for week 2. The homework for week 1 threw me for a loop, and to be honest, I did not complete…

  • Github revisited

    Have you ever had that feeling when you are learning something, and then find out you were doing it wrong, or at least not in the best way? Yeah… I know I was not using Github to anywhere close to its capabilities, and I there are still uses that still need to be uncovered, but…

  • Django is powerful! (not the movie)

    I have almost completed another tutorial on Teamtreehouse.com, it’s called Django Basics. And I have to say, django is a pretty impressive framework. Admittedly, this is the first time I’ve ever used it, or anything like it. Soon, I’ll post the files to github, but part of me feels like that would be cheating. It’s…