Maintaining momentum: Week in review
Inertia is enough to kill all but the truly motivated; but even once you’re got the proverbial ball rolling, it still takes additional effort to maintain the momentum. I am after all just a mere …
Forms, robots, and data security
It started off with a simple enough request: “Just saw a couple of you have added your email address to your profile page or portfolio site. Bots trawl sites looking for email addresses to spam …
Codes and ciphers
Codes and ciphers have always fascinated me. Growing up I loved reading books about spies, with secret codes and hidden invisible pens. As I grew up, this fed in to my logical mind and although …
Migrating a project from CodePen to a GitHub repository
Oh they grow up so fast! What started out as just a little Pen on CodePen has now grown beyond recognition (and manageability) on there, and has been forced to grow up in this cruel …
Introducing Micro-Projects
A great way of learning and developing new skills is to take on projects which need a solution, even though you’re not entirely sure how to achieve it. The thing is, a project of the …
Oh and Hackerrank…
I was talking the other day about online learning resources which I use, and despite the fact I kept it brief, upon a session today tidying up some bookmarks I had and was aghast to …
Online Learning Resources – Feb 2019
There are myriad learning resources available on the Internet. Some substantially better than others, and then some more suited to certain learning styles than others; I have already discussed my feelings about Treehouse as a …
Getting started with Git – Part One – What is Git?
Function, then form.
And then flourishes… At the end of the web development boot-camp on which I am currently working, I have set myself a personal challenge of attaining the Responsive Web Design Certification (300 hours) on freeCodeCamp. …
Project – Pharaoh Idle – Part One
All is good and well when learning to go through the fixed learning programme, completing set tasks that build on the skills learned in that session in order to cement the learning. And indeed that …