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Summing up 2023
This week, I have been doing some digital clean up. In doing so, I reached this blog and see some posts that were never completed. Instead of trying to fully complete them, here are a few highlights! AI – To be clear, not training AI, but understanding how to use it to get meaningful responses.…
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Selenium and Pytest, making testing your friend
I recently completed the course, Python From Scratch & Selenium WebDriver QA Automation 2023, at Udemy. (certificate). In full disclosure, I did fast forward through the “Python From Scratch” portion as I already have some Python experience. I also skipped the “Robot Framework” section. I purchased the course to learn Pytest and Selenium webdriver. Also,…
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Evolution of Thought
This may be the first post I have done that explicitly relates to something I have done for work. Not to mention an opportunity to show growth in how to approach items and learn from them for the future. The situation – The new site for work was created and pushed live. All was well…
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FastAPI – quick to build, runs fast
FastAPI is an up and coming framework for Python to create an API. Some would say it’s already here. Yes, its main purpose is to be an API, but it can still host a website. Much in the same way Flask is a web framework, but can be used as an API. They can do…
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PHP, SEO and MySQL Walk into a Bar…
Ok, maybe they don’t walk into a bar, but meet up on a website. In this case, it’s a site for work. This new website has a section for articles, similar to blog posts. Creating the articles and accessing them were “easy” (I will not go into detail about how to access a mysql database…
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Triumphant over PHP7!
I am not a php developer, but I have built a couple websites that utilize the PHP include statement to make a single instance of an item such as a header or footer and use across the whole site. When php5x was deprecated, the previous statements would no longer work in 7… I consulted with…
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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…
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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,…
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The little hidden things
Have you ever had one of those days where you focus on a tiny little thing, only to learn that some time later, (possibly hours), you had an even smaller detail incorrect? Traditionally, when building a website, I used a CMS that handled a lot of the heavy lifting. I didn’t have to worry about…